[GRLUG] Cheap Laptop Needed

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Of course, that only helps a little bit. Seeing that your laptop is now 
on pool144.grmich.sbcglobal.net does not do you a lot of good. Sure, the 
laptop is still in GR but so are 150,000 people. Which one of them took 
it? You can forget the phone company releasing the records for who has 
that IP unless you happen to be the RIAA or federal gov't. So all you'll 
get is the nice, warm feeling that you were able to help someone in 
grand rapids to get a laptop.
New Mastercard like commercial:
IP info:  $0.02
Feeling worse knowing a little bit of info but not knowing enough: Priceless
For everything else there's a bullet to the head for anyone that steals. 
I can't stand thieves.

Unless, of course, they are dumb enough to connect it to an IP 
registered to themselves or a single business.

Kaminski, Dennis J wrote:
> If you have a receiving server available, perhaps a boot up and hourly
> program that sends traceroute (laptop to server) data to a time stamped
> file on your server. 
>
> Dennis J Kaminski
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grlug-bounces at grlug.org [mailto:grlug-bounces at grlug.org] On Behalf
> Of Michael Mol
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:29 PM
> To: grlug at grlug.org
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Cheap Laptop Needed
>
> On 3/29/07, Jorge La <weeneedhelp at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Yesterday, I parked my car at work for 45 minutes and when i came out,
>> someone went and stole my messenger bag, the laptop that was in the
>> messenger bag, my remote car starter (to my own car... they cant even
>>     
> use
>   
>> that, so i don't know why they stoled it), my CDs, and cut the power
>>     
> wire to
>   
>> my cop detector. Poop.
>>
>> Anyways, is their anyone selling or have a spare laptop laying around
>>     
> that
>   
>> they are willing to sell? It doesn't need to be that powerful. The
>>     
> stolen
>   
>> laptop was a Celeron Coppermine with 256mb RAM running Xubuntu. All I
>>     
> used
>   
>> it for was surfing.
>>     
>
> I'll keep an eye out.
>
> But this really brings to mind a service/piece of software I was
> thinking about writing.  My desktop has a cron job to wget a missing
> file on my web server account.  When I need to connect to it, I check
> the error logs to get the IP address. (Yes, I know I should use dyndns
> or cjb.  I haven't bothered to look into it yet.)
>
> I've been thinking about replacing the missing file with a PHP script
> which keeps a short history of accesses.  It wouldn't be much of a
> stretch to add an identifying field to the GET method request, and
> look up results by field.  That way, if your system is plugged in and
> connected to the net, you can easily find out the network it's
> connecting from, especially if it's configured to connect to any old
> available network.
>
>