From: Steve Hultquist (ssh_at_accumedia.com)
Date: Wed Oct 17 2001 - 19:03:40 EDT
'Course, how difficult is it to have an image of the Windows boot-up show up
on a screen attached to something that isn't a computer at all?
Now, if we had to bring up Excel and calculate a polynomial.... ;-)
ssh
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Laniear [mailto:laniear_at_attglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:22 PM
To: Joe Seisdedos
Cc: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: RE: Air Travel with Laptops
I have a ThinkPad (701C - now retired) which has been through the X-ray units
at least two hundred times
between '97 and last year without any problem. Back in '96 the security
people used to make people
carrying laptops turn them on to show that they worked but that practice
faded with customer complaints (as I
suspect the new procedures will also - unfortunately). A friend had a laptop
with a dead battery so it wouldn't
turn on. He explained the problem pointing to the battery. The security
person nodded him through! The
"dead battery" could have been anything.
Lee
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:43:24 +1000, Joe Seisdedos wrote:
>When I recently travelled to the US, I saw many people carry laptops on
>as hand luggage. However, whilst this practice is still allowed, the
>downside is that you will invariably be held up for at least 15 minutes
>while they pore over your laptop, turn it on, take it apart, etc.
>
>Also, I heard something about not putting your laptop through xray
>machines...?
>
>Joe.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kwik, Ed " <ed.kwik_at_delphiauto.com>
>Date: Thursday, October 18, 2001 5:34 am
>Subject: RE: Air Travel with Laptops
>
>> Funny. We just got a corporate notice NOT to check our company
>> laptops when
>> flying. Seems like too many are being damaged. We must carry on our
>> laptops and check all the rest of our baggage.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jberry_at_islandnet.com [mailto:jberry_at_islandnet.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:03 PM
>> To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
>> Subject: Air Travel with Laptops
>>
>> What is happening these days? I heard a rumour that you
>> couldn't take a laptop on board any more, it had to be part of
>> checked luggage.
>>
>> If so, that might be another reason to carry an out-of-date
>> laptop. When they trash your luggage, you lose a less valuable
>> family member. Or are they handling luggage more carefully
>> now?
>>
>>
>> --
>> cheers
>> Jonathan Berry
>> http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
>>
>
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