Wow,
It looks like people these days really don't care for Christmas spirit,
eh? Glad to see you didn't lose your precious, Phil! My friend got his
laptop, mobile phone and wallet stolen on christmas eve while he was
sleeping. Eerily similar to Phil's story except they came in through
the window. Thing is there were THREE people in the house and they all
slept through it!
I guess you really need good security these days.
As for sleeping with your laptop, I am probably as geeky as the rest of
you guys and gals, but that (for me) is just that little bit too far!
My solution is to just use a kensington security cable on my powerbook,
and attach it to something big, in my case the cable hole in my office
table. I'm pretty sure they'll at least need to make some noise to get
it out of there! Also if I slept with my pbook, I could well end up
rolling onto it, as I have done with countless walkmans and other
devices in the past and end up wrecking the display or something.
While I like security, I don't know whether I'd go the whole hog with
security grills etc. I am reminded of the vietnamese family recently
who got burnt alive in their home. Their placed had security grills
over all the windows so they couldn't get out through them and no one
could save them either! All your really need is a good alarm with
motion sensors and some pepper spray handy. The alarm will scare off
90% of burglars, the other 10% will try anyway regardless of your
security measures. I've been robbed in a fully secured place - they
just came through the roof instead!
Dave
On 29/12/2003, at 8:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote:
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:03:35 +0800
From: Phillip McGree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OT: House burglary tonight
Yup, I'll be faxing all the pawnbroker shops in the next few days.
And here I was thinking that I would never use the fax function in
10.3! And I'll be getting some cops that I know socially to keep an
eye on recovered goods records.
My emptied wallet was found around the corner from here this morning.
Damn, that was my last $100 so now I'm left with $3.35 to my name and
a bloody empty stomach! These kids are bloody experienced, even the
hidden compartments that nosey girlfriends, etc, normally don't find
had been gone through.
Rather miffed about losing my camera though... now I can't take any
photos of the ripper grazes that I've got on my right knee and hand
from when I fell over whilst chasing the car down the road.
Moral of the story... don't leave your PowerBook on your desk at
night, always take it to bed with you! My geekiness/nerdiness paid
off, I always take my PowerBook to bed at night (the cat to, but he
always runs away as soon as he can). :-)
I've been wondering all day if these kids will ever come back now that
they have seen the masses of Mac stuff that I have in this house. But
then again... I'm 6 foot tall, 118kg... big ugly fat bastard,
particularly unattractive when running across the front yard at 3:30am
in nothing but old underpants. Being chased by this huge pissed off
pale bloke who's bare skin hasn't seen sunshine in many years must
have had them at least a tad concerned.
Would have been a classic for Funniest Home Videos... if I had the
whole iSight thing set up I would still have lost my camera, but could
have won a new replacement one with the video.
Phil
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