Traveling with a Toughbook

Ditch the gun - only war mongers use them. And keep the computer!

Craig.

 

I picked this up last night. I think the color scheme goes well with my CF-29.
Smith & Wesson model 329PD Alaskan Backpacker IV, .44 mag. It's very lightweight. I can't wait to get it out to the range and feel the bite. Sunrk, we keep our firearms because we can. We are a free country made up of freedom loving individuals. The ability to defend ones self is the ability to remain free from an oppressive government. It keeps things in check. Kind of like the free version of AVG the anti-virus software. It's all about being free from outside attacks.

 

I agree with every bit of that. I am sure any other free man would agree. God bless the United States of America.

 

Hey Craig,

In what direction did the crime rate go after the mandatory firearms turn-in you guys had in Oz? Did making the law abiding citizens turn-in their weapons cause a large drop in that rate? Or by some chance did the criminals figure out that if the victims don't have firearms with which to defend themselves it just made their tasks easier? From some of the stats I saw the crime rate in certain categories went up as much as 400%!

 

That ought to wake them up, since I'm leaving out of here tomorrow morning on the red eye...be interesting to see! LOL

 

LIVE LIKE NO ONE ELSE, SO LATER YOU CAN LIVE LIKE NO ONE ELSE. THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT, AND DO IT.

Toyo, is your signature Dave Ramsey? Where have I heard that before?

 

Hmm - Tell you what I would rather be standing at the line with a .223 than a CF29.

What good is a Toughbook when the Zombies come

 

You can use it to hack into Pitr's orbiting crowbar launcher satellite...

mnem

 

How about having them ALL! IN line with your AR-15 AND your Toughbook... If you run out of rounds... Throw the Toughbook at them. With the handle it would make a formidable weapon!

 

Woooh man... tough choice there. Dead zombie or throwing away Luscious Lucy's Mango-Melon Jello-Wrestling video...

mnem
Grrrr. Arrrrgh.

 

Not everything behind the media door is an optical drive. I was looking at my Toughbook and my Ruger LCP and it occured to me that one could fit inside the other. Something to keep your eyes on. For everyone else this isn't a good hiding place for your LCP. Thief breaks in and grabs your Toughbook and then guess what else you lost. When I'm not home my firearms are in the gun vault.

 

When I'm not home my firearms are under the back seat.

 

I hear what your saying. My little LCP tags along in my back pocket. I'd keep the others under the back seat but with my luck my car would catch on fire and burn to the ground.

 

mega man, the mega cab is a nice rig, but a bit of a pain to manuver into the service bay for us techs given it's length.

 

SN,
Who do you suppose is going to be the first to forget they have a heater in their media bay and try to get on a airplane? Make TSA's day!
CAP

 

Gawd, I'm sure it's already happened... LOL

mnem
TSA-Totally Silly Airport?

 

Stiffnecked! Seriously!!! the lcp will fit inside the media bay???? I am at work right now and can't wait to get home to try it.

 

Unfortunately, yes, it fits all the way inside. We were just talking about this at the station this morning. Please don't use that information for engaging in illegal activities. If you carry get your CCW permit.

I can just imagine the traffic stop. "Yes, officer I'm carrying a concealed weapon and I have a permit" "Oh, it's inside my Toughbook".

 

I have the CCW permit, the LCP, and the Toughbook. Fortunately I am also a law abiding upstanding citizen with no reason to carry the weapon hidden in a computer. It will just be really cool to show my buddies who already think I am nuts for being addicted to Toughbooks.

 

That's what everyone at the station said. "Your the only one that would think of this"!!! I'm always trying to see what will fit in where. Kudo's on the CCW permit. All free men that can get one should have one. I'm not sticking my LCP back in there cause with my luck something inside would devour it and not give in back. Those LCP's are like gold in this part of the country. I was on the waiting list at 2 dealers for over 12 weeks before my number came up.

 

SN,
Have you seen the new one from Ruger? Check out the LCR at their website. If you like the LCP, I think you will like it's cousin the composite framed revolver. It even comes with a Crimson Trace from the factory if you want. SLICK!

 

HEy, there is finally a use for those floppy disk drives you have laying around. Take out the guts and use some snips to trim the case to shape. It would keep the dang thing from sliding and bouncing around in there.

Warmongers?

Seriously????

Were you actually eating granola while typing that? Its like a caricature of a caricature.

Warmonger.

Try reading the writings of the Founding Fathers. They felt that to be armed was to be safer from attack. If you are protected, you are less likely to be attacked in the first place.

 

Don't forget the Beretta Tomcat - 32 will fit also. Now we just need an injection molding machine to make a clean insert for the floppy drive like rickdog said. Now I am inspired

 

You don't need an injection molding machine. Build a small wooded box, heat a sheet of polycarbonate in the oven (not too hot and not for too long), then clamp the sheet in the box so it has enough space underneath for the weapon then attach a strong vacuum cleaner to the underside (make sure everything is sealed) and let the sheet draw down (no pun intended) onto the gun. Then just trim and maybe cover in a soft material. Anyway, that is kind of a verbal rough draft of how it could be done cheaply.

 

Seems to me you can get a cozy keeper by assaulting a bit of gun case eggcrate foam with an exacto knife blade hose-clamped to your soldering iron. Or, if you have an old tip you don't mind fouling, use that... Just run a shop-vac out the door to suck away the melting foam fumes...

mnem
Foam to the left of me... foam to the right.... and there I was, stuck in the middle with Uzi...

 

Yes, precisely. Guns are weapons designed to kill things. Having a gun doesn't make you safer. Having a gun doesn't make you 'protected'. It means you have a more efficient means to kill at your disposal and I bet people who tout gun ownership as making society safer are the same people who tend to believe airbags in cars make society safer. Remember that war is terrorism with a different mask applied. In modern times the USA has displayed a particularly bad habit for bandying about the words 'war' and 'terrorism' for no valid reason and not understanding the implications.

There is no way in hell I want my children to grow up thinking that they are not safe without a gun. But I would definitely approve of them getting an understanding of rugged computing technology if they were interested in that sort of thing (tieing back into the original topic before gun-toting was raised....).

Craig.

 

"Guns are tools of intimidation, torture and death" For God's sake, don't let Eric Holder hear that one...he's on his own Democratic/Liberal high horse as it is without giving him diatribes like that one! BTW, I never did hear a response to the Aussie crime rate stats and how they went up after the forcible gun turn-in.....I promise this is the last comment on the guns issue, makes me even happier that we have that small item called the Constitution and the Second Amendment.

 

There is no way I in hell I want my children growing up without the tools to protect themselves from all enemies, foreign or domestic. When you lay down your arms you become slaves and servants to those that didn't. In our country freedom reigns. Maybe in yours it's not that important. Technology will not save you from the tyrants rule.

 

sunrk
I usually stay out of these topics but, do not, as a citizen of Australia, presume to equate the desires of honest American Citizens to maintain their rights as spelled out in our Constitution, with recent and current behaviors by elected officials whose goal was/is to pervert that document for their political agendas or personal beliefs.
CAP

 

*Puts down the gun cozy and slowly backs away...*

Ummm... yeah. I'm a pacifist. I own three guns, one of them a pistol. I don't want to fight over them; in my mind, it's nobody's d@mn business what I keep in my closet.

mnem
Some things are worth dying for... much fewer are the things worth killing for.

 

Now back to traveling with the Toughbook.

 

I guess this is why the Dell guys don’t feel comfortable on our forum



Alex

 

BAHAHAHA!!!!, that's 'cuz you can't fit a gun inside of a Dell

 

Nah, it's because they are all as masculine as the "dude" that used to be in the commercials but is now working in a bar....

 

Toughbook.

The only computer that's rated to AAA for ballistics protection by the NIJ.

<the poster is not responsible for any injuries incurred by deliberately testing the above statement.>

 

I read an article about 3-4 years ago (I'll try to find it later)... about a soldier in iraq that had a CF-29 save his life when the screen stopped a 762 round fired from a Kalashnikov...

 

Looks and sounds like geek heaven...LOL

 

I somehow missed this thread now that I've been on swing shift at work (Not alot of NBR time lately).

But A): Who let this clown in the door (does he even own a toughbook?) and B): Man, this guy is misguided. I'm not saying you aren't welcome here, because by all means, stay, but just don't suggest to people that they should not use every constitutional freedom granted to them.

Just because we own guns doesn't mean we want to engage in war 24/7. We just want to be ready for the worst.

If for whatever reason there ends up being a war on American soil, all I need is more ammo and i'm out the door defending my country. If somebody breaks into my house, they better obey the orders I am yelling at them, or they will get some new body jewelry.

Most important of all... The government recognises that people like me are out here in this fine country, and that reminds them that they better uphold the rest of the constitution, and incase a dictator ever becomes our president, I'll at least have a fighting chance when they come knocking door to door.

I've never had to point a gun at anybody, which I would be fine and dandy never having to do for the rest of my life, but if the need arises, I'm ready.
In the meantime, next deer season I'm going out with my AR-15 and catching myself some dinner.

 

sunrk, get a life..

I grew up with a father and brother who were gun enthusiasts, & none of us have had any involvement with any form of violence in our lives.
The law has changed & no guns in England now, other than criminals & a few police..

Back on topic;
I use an Tech-Air 3104 case for my CF-29. It's intended for a larger screen machine, but the extra space at the side is perfect for the power brick, using the folded sholder strap to separate that from the side of the Toughbook.
The mains power cable fits along the front and the mouse in the corner.

It's not a hard shell case, but very light, well padded and excellent for slinging in the car with other toolboxes etc.

Another identical one holds an H470 portable printer and collection of programming cables.

Robert.

 

Ummmm.... dewed.... did you MISS the last 8 years? Were you like... in a coma? :wink:

Just sayin'...

mnem <~~~Still got guns, STILL a pacifist dwagon~~~*

 

But just waiting for the right time to release the inner firebreathing dragon that lies in wait.

 

Actually, those stickers will get you through faster -- they don't want to be accused of "profiling."

The only problem you have with a Toughbook is that they see them as a challenge because it's so hard for them to kill the thing during the inspection.

 

How true... I get some funny looks resulting from my yellow Pelican 1500 case. WHen I get a nice new orange pelican case I'm sure that'll get even more strange looks.

Craig.

 

Heh... who's WAITING? It's just a matter of directing that beast in more productive arenas in the meantime... like courtship and child-rearing. >~~~(;

mnem
No Marcus, you can't eat daddy's toes! Silly puppy-dwagon...

 

Ahhem, excuse me, as proved in Independence Day, aliens uses Macs. Powerbook 5300 to be exact. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhfZfUsEtQI. And they use a Mac in Hackers too. Nobody needs a Toughbook to interface with an satelite. hehe.

 

Unless there were two of them I believe it was a CF-M34 as I have seen that picture. But probably there have been several since the Toughbook stays in harms way over there.

Yeah... I missed this thread too... For some reason.

But I would remind everyone that those in foreign countries do not understand the "American Mentality" of some gun owners. To them we still look like the Wild West toting our guns around. They have not been raised as we have and in some cases are not even allowed to own guns, hence their squeamishness or timidity about the subject.

I am not a "Gun Nut" nor a "Survivalist Nut"... Yet I own many guns, Ammo and have a stocked basement with MREs ready to take care of my family plus whomever else may be lucky enough to be let in should something happen. Terrorism is the last thing I worry about. I think about real and possible natural disasters. Look what happened with Katrina. Devastation on a scale so wide people could not be helped fast enough. So....

1. I will have food

2. I will have shelter (Of one means or another)

3. I will have guns, ammo and am VERY proficient with them.*

4. Nobody will take the above three away from me should something happen for the worse.

I will be the first to admit that the Bush administration made the ENTIRE WORLD less safe! The administration had no clue what to do in the first place, had no plan for anything and stumbled their way into a horrid mess that the entire human population of this planet will pay for for quite some time... And Iraq is only one part of that mess! I'm not a Rep or a Dem and have voted equally for each throughout the years depending on what I felt the COUNTRY or WORLD needed at that time. Never have my own personal thoughts (IE, I'm voting Republican so I can have lower taxes!) entered into my thought process. To me that is the most unpatriotic thing you could ever do. I feel that I am a general cross-section type "Slice" out of America as most share my views... At least most that I have spoken to.

If the SHTF... Let's just see what the people with no guns do. No means to gather food. (Oh... That's right! They are all vegetarians anyway!) No way to protect themselves from those that would do harm to them for what they have. Let's just hope they all live in a desert so they can just stick their heads in the sand and wait for better times.

But I digress.... We traveled with my wife's CF-18 on our trip to San Juan. I think I will upgrade the wifi to the 600mW Engenous card. The Marriott where we stayed overpowered the Starbuck's across the street and I had to go out to the front bench to get free wifi! In playing around with the setup... I installed Intel ProSet's program instead of just the driver. I also setup SB555 Watcher, since it has a Verizon CDMA modem installed, in another effort to get free wifi. Most of the CF-29s that I have had will still work for a few months until the prior owner gets around to disconnecting them. This one was already disconnected. But Verizon gets a great signal from the 10th floor oceanside balcony in San Juan! I was kind of ticked off because after installing ProSet and SB555 Watcher XP Pro said that I now had to "Re-Activate" it since I had made significant changes to the system. ? I've had that happen between reformats when I have changed stuff... But never in the middle. I guess Bill is on the look-out!

My only gripe about the CF-18 was the low screen illumination in the sun. I'm not talking about the beach sun.... Just the sun on the balcony... And we were actually in the shade. The 500 nit screen doesn't hack it outside. I think it may be time for a CF-19!

* I also have a 42", .40 caliber blowgun with broadhead darts and got two squirrels today off the birdfeeder at over 100 feet... The other two were trapped and released at the park 3 miles away. They are slowly chewing me to death... Grill, hot-tub, deck, birdfeeders, birdhouses, etc. Bastages!

 

Rick -

Have you tried the Squirrel-Pult by Spishak, the producer of SpishWax?

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=6980493

Unfortunately SpishWax won't protect your car from:

Paint, Tar, Feathers, Guano, Shampoo, Conditioner, Wood Stain, Mahogany Wood Stain *CLUNNNK!*, Eggs, Scrambled Eggs, Easter Eggs, Easter Rocks, Baseball Bats, Bowling Balls, Chum, Potted Plants, Jewish Weddings, Cat Litter, Neighborhood Kids, Chicken and Dumplings, Christmas Decorations, Cinder Blocks, Sledgehammers, Sandwiches, Did we mention Baseball Bats? Boat Anchors or Wrecking Balls!

Remember, it's JUST WAX!

mnem
"Spishak Man saved our marriage!"

 

I never said you NEEDED a ToughBook to hack Pitr's Crowbar Satellite... I just said you COULD use one. Of course, if you gave Pitr a hundred MacBooks, guess what he'd be using to reload his satellite?

*SNERK*

mnem
The dwagon who fell to Earth...

 

My cf-19 digitizer with 540nit screen is only slightly brighter than my cf-18 touch outdoors, not that much of an improvement but it still looks better outdoors than the cf-29
The mk-3 cf-19 has a optional 1000 nit screen equal to the cf-30 touch in brightness and that would be bright


Alex

 

I don't know if Hurricane Ike got the new coverage that Katrina did, but most of the Houston area was without power for a month or 2. I didn't really hear anything about anyone shooting at helicopters or plundering or any of the crap that happened during Katrina. Funny thing is that Houston is still occupied by alot of the New Orleans refugees. So that's about 6 Million people or so that were knocked back in time about 100 years with very little violence (no more than usual for Houston) Anyway, my point is that when people are prepared for the worst things seem to work out much much better. Buy guys, stock up on MREs, do what you gotta do to get the ones you love safe. It's not just a American right backed by the Constitution, it's a right as a Human Being.

Back to the topic, I have not traveled with a toughbook yet but I have a funny story about my boss. He gets a new laptop every month or so because he has the tendency to drop them and then they are kaput. I convinced him to use a toughbook from now on so he got a cf18 and has been carrying that thing around for about 5 months now. He's dropped that bad boy in Bush Intercontinental at least 7 times that he's told me, and spilled coffee on it god knows how many times. His most recent incident actually killed the hard drive so now I'm gonna convince him to get a SSD. The toughbook is a godsend to this man.

Daniel