[GRLUG] Cheap Laptop Needed

[Marc Zuverink]

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Jorge La 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.
> 
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From:
http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu:Edgy#How_to_setup_a_LoJack_system_for_your_laptop
For Unbuntu, but easiy modified and much too late...

> How:
> 
>     * Get a free dynamic IP account from one of the many providers. Here we will use DynDNS. 
> 
>     * Install ddclient. In the section #How to assign Hostname to local machine with dynamic IP using free DynDNS service we installed the package ipcheck, here we prefer to use ddclient because it can get the IP from an external source on the Internet instead of getting it from a network adapter. 
> 
> sudo apt-get install ddclient 
> 
>     * Edit the configuration file /etc/ddclient.conf using you fevorite text editor (emacs, gedit, kedit or even vi) 
> 
> sudo emacs /etc/ddclient.conf
> 
>     * Make it look like this: 
> 
> # Configuration file for ddclient generated by debconf
> #
> # /etc/ddclient.conf
> pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
> protocol=dyndns2
> use=web
> server=members.dyndns.org
> login=YourNameHere
> password='YourPasswordHere'
> YourHostNameHere.gotmyip.com
> 
>     NOTE: 
>     * Make sure that you use the web IP detection method. 
>     * Specify your own user id instead of the place holder YourNameHere. 
>     * Specify your own password instead of the place holder YourPasswordHere, make sure to surround it with single quotes. 
>     * The last line should specify the hostname you registered with the dynamic IP service. 
> 
>     * You can now start the ddclient daemon, or wait until your next reboot. 



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Marc Zuverink <mzuverink at gmail.com>

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