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Moshe Goldfarb.
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:13:48 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Desperate demand for the Elonex webbook
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| =========================================
>| Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008
>| From: alan c
>| To: British Ubuntu Talk
>|
>| Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with Bolt
>| Cutters!
>|
>| In Bracknell, the Carphone Warehouse Webbook (Elonex) with preinstalled
>| Ubuntu which is included in one of CPW¢s deals is in such extraordinary
>| demand that the recent display item in CPW Bracknell Princess Square
>| shopping mall was stolen last week by desperate people using *bolt
>| cutters*!
>|
>| The many larger laptops with Vista installed were left untouched. Sad eh?
>| Even thieves don¢t want Vista.
>|
>| The Webbook was secured using a kensington similar stranded wire lock, so
>| I guess the culprits even had some angle grinding to do later, to remove
>| the lock itself.
>|
>| The desperate act took place in a normal shopping day in broad daylight,
>| and the miscreants were seen making off at speed, unencumbered by
>| antivirus or other unnecessary items which might have slowed them down!
>|
>| Like most shopping malls, there is security video in operation, I trust
>| that it will be put to good use.
>| =========================================
> `----
>
> http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/26/desperate-demand-for-the-elonex-webbook/
Further proof that Linux users aren't interested in paying for anything.
You freeloaders are taking it a wee bit too far though...
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
> Desperate demand for the Elonex webbook
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| =========================================
>| Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008
>| From: alan c
>| To: British Ubuntu Talk
>|
>| Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with Bolt
>| Cutters!
>|
>| In Bracknell, the Carphone Warehouse Webbook (Elonex) with preinstalled
>| Ubuntu which is included in one of CPW¢s deals is in such extraordinary
>| demand that the recent display item in CPW Bracknell Princess Square
>| shopping mall was stolen last week by desperate people using *bolt
>| cutters*!
>|
>| The many larger laptops with Vista installed were left untouched. Sad eh?
>| Even thieves don¢t want Vista.
>|
>| The Webbook was secured using a kensington similar stranded wire lock, so
>| I guess the culprits even had some angle grinding to do later, to remove
>| the lock itself.
>|
>| The desperate act took place in a normal shopping day in broad daylight,
>| and the miscreants were seen making off at speed, unencumbered by
>| antivirus or other unnecessary items which might have slowed them down!
>|
>| Like most shopping malls, there is security video in operation, I trust
>| that it will be put to good use.
>| =========================================
> `----
>
> http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/26/desperate-demand-for-the-elonex-webbook/
Further proof that Linux users aren't interested in paying for anything.
You freeloaders are taking it a wee bit too far though...
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/