Oh yes indeed and I'm addicted!  Have used other laptops but its nice to
have one of your own for sure.  And can save on electricity especially this
summer.  

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Lou Kolb
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:59 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: off topic

Congrats Barb.  I got a new one in December and I love the portability.  I
know they're more fragile but nevertheless, There's a lot to be said for
laptops.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Lombardi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: off topic


> Hi. Am excited because am using my new laptop, a dell 1525 I bought 
> from a guy on the vr stream list.  It works like a charm.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Howard Kaufman
> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 9:02 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: off topic
>
> I just wanted to tell you a story about my misadventure and it's solution.
> About a month ago, I suddenly couldn't backup or restore my boot 
> drive, because of a bad sector or sectors on the hard drive.  Now 
> normally you choose chkdsk and have it repair and exclude bad sectors, 
> the system reboots, fixes the errors and returns you to windows.  I 
> run spybot, which installs a program called t-timer.  Now t-timer, 
> sees any change to your settings or starting software, and asks you to
accept or deny the change.
> Well, when running chkdsk, this dialog popped up just as windows was 
> shutting down.  Therefore their wasn't time to navigate the dialog, 
> check the boxes, before the computer shut down.
> Well, I was planning to buy partition and install a new hard drive.  
> This morning, I ran chkdsk, but before doing so, I turned off t-timer 
> from msconfig.  Now everything worked the hard drive was repaired, and 
> I have a new backup made this afternoon.  Now even if this drive 
> crashes, I have all my setup in this computer as of noon today.
>
> I don't know why I didn't see the solution sooner, but just to tell 
> the story if any of you run in to a problem like mine.
>
> H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
> Adaptive Technology Instructor