what about the old honeywell ball less mouse, it used to sensor pads, im sure they are still aound, that is what my old school usd. although, just curious, what the hell is the point of stealng a mouse ball? Patrick > -----Original Message----- > From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 15 September 2000 3:53 PM > To: Jill Rowling > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: Moving OT a bit [was] Re: Re: Proceedure for > preventing 'linux single' at lilo promp t > > > An interesting way ive seen tampering being prevented > (although somewhat > extreme) > was in mp3 (licensed mp3s) jukebox's. Although running windows, if the > cases werent > opened right the hdd would fry out. Preventing 20 gigs of licensed > material from theft > > Now if you really cared, i guess you could hook it up to your ram =) > > The worst theft though, is mouse balls. Working in a public > library, we > go through alot > of these. Infact we ordering in bags of them to keep up! Ideally we > could use optical > mice but i have seen any at a decent price, and they would have to be > padless (eg. > intelimice) or the pads would surely go missing..... > > > > Dean > > > Jill Rowling wrote: > > > > This is getting way OT because I don't think anyone is > running Linux on E250 > > hardware, but you _CAN_ disable STOP-A by turning the front > panel switch to > > the run position and hiding the keyswitch. > > > > Regarding the PC RAM theft issue, I can only say YES has > happened recently > > and YES you need physical security. It's not going to go away. > > > > - Jill. > > ___________________________________________ > > Jill Rowling > > Snr Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator > > Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies Australia > > 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 > > Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Angus Lees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:15:07PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > > I did hear a rumour that RAM theft is a problem in corporate > > > environments. Does anyone have any first hand experience > of just how > > > prevelent it might be. > > and i forgot to mention in the previous list: > > > > if its a sparc, find a way to disable stop+a ! > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
