Jeroen de Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How many thieves would be comfortable with using Linux and
> network manager to connect to a network?
I don't use NetworkManager. The fact that it doesn't bring up
networks till someone logs in is too stupid for words. (For one, my
preferred login wh
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Tim wrote:
> Nah, hideously painful, slow acting, poison gas.
what? you want to be merciful to someone who steels your laptop?
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tc,hago.
g
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in a free world without fences, who needs gates.
learn linux:
'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition'
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 14:25 +, g wrote:
> i still think best way is a 'mission impossible' self
> destruct with a c4 charge. ;-)
Nah, hideously painful, slow acting, poison gas.
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Thanks for the tip on adeona. I'll look at it to see what other
> tricks I could be using to make tracking easier.
it is an interesting and effective way of doing things.
yet like any and all possible ways, it does dep
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 11:06 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> > Short answer: It'll make it very hard for people with physical access to
> > boot your computer and read personal files (possibly containing
> > passwords or other sensitive information).
>
> True, but that will also make it hard
g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> are you using http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/index.html ?
> or do you have another 'call home' site?
I'm using my own desktop system to log the IP and using a periodic
wget(1) call from the init scripts, cron, and dhclient to access a
non-linked web page on my mac
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> True, but that will also make it hard for the laptop to call home for
> help if it gets stolen. Just something to think about.
are you using http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/index.html ?
or do you have another 'call hom
> Short answer: It'll make it very hard for people with physical access to
> boot your computer and read personal files (possibly containing
> passwords or other sensitive information).
True, but that will also make it hard for the laptop to call home for
help if it gets stolen. Just something
