Archive for the 'laptops' Category

Laptop Backpack

Cidu Bill on Feb 19th 2010

Can anybody recommend a well-padded laptop backpack big enough for a laptop with a 17.3 inch screen?

How well-padded? “Teenager with an expensive laptop” padded.

Thanks.

Filed in Bill Bickel, laptops | 14 responses so far

A Question for You Techies Out There

Cidu Bill on Dec 30th 2009

The other night, two friends were discussing their respective smart phones, an iPhone and, I think, a Droid — you know the kind of discussion, basically “My phone’s penis is bigger than your phone’s penis” — and one of them, I forget which, mentioned an app where if you lose your phone, you can dial it up, punch in a code, and completely erase all data stored on it.

Which got me thinking: Seems like every month we hear about some bank executive misplacing a laptop containing 500,000 customer Social Security numbers, or a Secret Service agent leaving a laptop containing the nuclear launch codes in a taxicab… so if an iPhone can have a remote-wipe function, is there any reason a laptop can’t? Seems like a fairly simple matter. 

Of course this begs the question of why ultra-sensitive information is ever allowed to be on a laptop, but that’s another matter and I doubt anybody can really explain this.

Filed in Bill Bickel, iPhone, laptops, technology | 23 responses so far

Laptop

Cidu Bill on Mar 4th 2008

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Filed in Alison Barrows, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Preteena, comic strips, comics, exercise, humor, laptops | 12 responses so far