From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 22 17:02:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F1416A4CE for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 17:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp809.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp809.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB95443D2F for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 17:02:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from unknown (HELO pacbell.net) (fscked@pacbell.net@66.124.232.98 with plain) by smtp809.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 May 2004 00:01:21 -0000 Message-ID: <40AFE96E.60009@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:59:42 -0700 From: richard childers / kg6hac Organization: Daemonized Networking Services - http://www.daemonized.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Langille References: <40AE2E1D.31632.B01D51FE@localhost> In-Reply-To: <40AE2E1D.31632.B01D51FE@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stolen laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: fscked@pacbell.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 00:02:10 -0000 I strongly recommend resisting the urge to buy the latest and greatest laptop, and, instead, to buy two (or more!) identical laptops, slightly slower, slightly less resolution, but much cheaper, per unit, as well. This strategy of redundancy, along with some data replication mechanisms, can do a lot to buffer the pain that one feels when something like this happens. And it doesn't need to be stolen for this to happen; it could get a drink spilled on it, or be dropped. They are fragile things. One does not need a GHz CPU to run UNIX; just the opposite. And older machines are better supported, more stable. It's only an issue of you're doing development and need to compile kernel-sized programs in less than a few minutes, IMHO ... and at that point, you're better off logging into some Big Iron, anyway, so your work is backed up. My sympathies ... Regards, -- richard Dan Langille wrote: >It's just so sickening. It gets me right in the gut. > >My laptop was stolen from my car today over lunch. It was an IBM >ThinkPad T22 (serial 786NKZP). > >It wasn't just the hardware. There was a notebook with it too. And >two wireless nics (Orinoco Gold and Silver), a PCMCIA modem, plus a >Linksys PCM100 10/100 Integrated PC Card. That's what sucks. It's the >little pieces. > >Ugh. > > -- Richard Childers / Senior Engineer Daemonized Networking Services 945 Taraval Street, #105 San Francisco, CA 94116 USA [011.]1.415.759.5571 http://www.daemonized.com -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) mQGiBECGpfsRBACoPJJfIIrWAqjlW92TtYCtY//e7OW8alWylr/1ygtSQzjCCdvC Ysa0fCcx01UenlWV+5YY/zC7KPsX2rQUKAs20fqs9et74dmgMGOj0vMjTzWEs29G FyAsIRSpFioa8zzrjXEUVnU6OFaD9a9eaC+LSTCiKgXjbQySDKM5T1c+vwCg8W3Y RZ83LRIUULGMPlY6zS4fQwUEAIIiTHDdWpbE+HeREJwH+4eDpGVf76XtNlOMXrt9 tJ3ExL+9ezLulg1nCrOYodOB7TEZqzV40R7emDZSX0hI9QEBCv6nW5aDVpw/bf+q UEHwxrUvE2LBi35hoqR2QwqNlagOauSorWj8Qm/31luxJVeLVy1A1czp6B/mvG1T co03A/9a5kzEAebJ5TzWXQC2/4gu/osXQnrw9B9FFpYOtLc0MNQuAFt8VLn5yO5Q 8T58w+FQvFI5FqzI5URmjQeEyWWuyIechknk4RnwIO1UPVjgRTuNgf9/TvNNfqpa aVlbNp+AG21D6VqsFN2zJFFJeUqiYdXw6i+ESL3SZRymIhwYWrQ8UmljaGFyZCBB IENoaWxkZXJzICh3d3cuZGFlbW9uaXplZC5jb20pIDxmc2NrZWRAcGFjYmVsbC5u ZXQ+iF4EExECAB4FAkCGpfsCGwMGCwkIBwMCAxUCAwMWAgECHgECF4AACgkQjGqW TlNTP66KzQCgjf0SQbiK1rgu7hRsmLPSSaGF7X8AoL7Qw/E9kTZr0fntP0XXEnk/ q6nRuQINBECGpvkQCADFzFq+kYbk+KTIhcVBTjTWDbBnjGgmuGR3LGp9hOd6W9SJ i4GD5184ZnMbEgvDZcDEGDNgMcU+f1girwYI2v/o7QA7VQ5bpUbnfOBytzO+bvd7 uCOyJltg8AG5MFLxfhAMHofpNxGlFTEXdVp4M9xyBB+hdLHbJNJqkMGPf+iCUf1W Q86KncU2AK4Sf9I+WYBZwkjaIhi9dQzeEX1c0Um6LxXSBtkjZprIk1M13gVaIJ6E dDN6hrSMbXZL+7yURw38vHXCtRJAKEOyW178rI8MzJzvVNhobvC62uEWD9Idz8sH 5A06fqb2fKJYLQ1keGUpb/qpny7oTmAe0Hx9jOM7AAMGCACdTe1M4U++/7/OVGip 1gnWEtMhHeQQbS7KPh1w8/1kvs5Mml6uGYQI44lKTDP7OHJQ9hIT/+5tfKPHIPhU M/7Mqa8y81c/AK+WUOyY9+uZ0zUxFGMqeU9z5iqJFWSi9QR/f5q/khfmqi5RFVyQ nnVhxBMB8pY1vZHV1CoL7NLK4c/N8mpwCiZ57LTsP8pLfDMWF/OopmM2ulzlfWTr anAdxQohenq/zTgSySX/VGZYSYvyAoXTRuU4USAVGWcUQPnVooA1N7lZP3pawjNP QMSukx9jI1673BPsPXxyQZ1PmmPt9eHKI0G0hNJG+FCmSRLNT/R7hqTzTUmpgMWM yyWPiEkEGBECAAkFAkCGpvkCGwwACgkQjGqWTlNTP642KACeITHq0b42P3oMX7Nj F5U3EaqCgYoAn3HxUB7ELB6vMUugW4aSmZpBJOR6 =ZaJO -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----