[NTLUG:Discuss] Stolen laptop - please keep eyes open

Daniel Hauck daniel at yacg.com
Wed Aug 20 17:03:44 CDT 2008


CoryC さんは書きました:
> I had a friend that lives in Allen have her laptop stolen from her home yesterday afternoon/evening. She has already filed a police report and knows the serial number but unfortunately didn't have any sort of lojack software installed.  
> 
> It is a Gateway MX8710 running I believe Windows XP. I have been keeping an eye on Craigslist and ebay but thought that I would put notice here as well. If you see anybody trying to sell this particular model of laptop then please notify me.
> 
> On a side note this has me motivated to look into starting a Lojack for Linux project. I know of Adeona and the DynDNS tricks but am thinking of taking it a step further. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cory
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My thinking would be something along the lines of a "LoJack for Grub"
type of project.  If it's part of the bootloader, people wouldn't
necessarily know what was going on at power-up.




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