[GRLUG] Cheap Laptop Needed

[Roberto Villarreal]

Also, assuming that the laptop was running linux (this is a LUG after all!), 
what are the chances that the thief, or the person the thief sells it to, 
will actually know linux?  Odds probably aren't that good... it probably gets 
a pirated version of windows on it within ten minutes.

And on the chance that this person does know linux, my guess is that it still 
gets wiped with a new install.

I'd wager that the best way to find it and/or the person responsible is to 
check e-bay...

Roberto

On Friday 30 March 2007 11:18, Collin wrote:
> 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.
>
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