From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Oct 17 08:53:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA18612 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA18606 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:53:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA19171; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:53:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA20329; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:53:31 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:53:31 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710171553.JAA20329@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: "Brian N. Handy" , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I have a CD-rom! In-Reply-To: <199710170547.PAA01009@word.smith.net.au> References: <199710170547.PAA01009@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Well, I just shopped around Fry's today and found myself a PCCARD-based > > cdrom. My laptop supplier just spent two months getting me *another* > > printer-port based unit! I was pretty annoyed so I just bought the thing > > myself. > > Hah. This is what you get for not thinking ahead and buying a laptop > with one integrated. People laugh at me for recommending this; > "they're so BIG and HEAVY", but when I slap a CD in and blast them out > of the room, or suck stuff off one to save the day, well, who's > laughing THEN? 8) I would be, since I use a CD 2% of the time, and am on the road 15% of the time, lugging around a useless CD-ROM plus all of the 'support' weight for having the flexiblity. And, when *your* batteries go dead on a trip across the country (which they will fairly quickly), I can still listen to my CD's on the headphones. (Assuming I've brought the player along :) Nate