Barbara,

How do you like the keyboard on that machine?  I've been considering that 
machine among others, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know what the 
keyboard is like.  Specifically, are the arrow keys easy to find, and are 
the function keys in groups of four with spaces between the groups?

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Lombardi" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 21:42
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
>