[ubuntu-uk] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with Bolt Cutters!

[Bruce Beardall]

It does say that on the website but when I've had a peek inside my local
CPW, the model they had on display was definitely running Linux.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Seb Ward <ubuntu at gmx.it> wrote:

> Are you sure Ubuntu was on it? Because their website says its shipped with
> XP.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: alan c
> Sent: 27/08/08 11:35 am
> To: British Ubuntu Talk
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with Bolt
> Cutters!
>
> Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:
> > In message of 26 Aug, "Ian Pascoe" <softy.lofty.ilp at btinternet.com<http://mail-eu.gmx.com/fm07/cgi/g.fcgi/mail/new?&to=softy.lofty.ilp%40btinternet.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Remarkable! Presume the miscreants were from the local Vista Users
> >> Sanitorium?
> >
> > I am surprised that this local, for I too am local to Bracknell,
> > sensation was not made into banner headlines in the neighbourhood press,
> > for this is the first I have heard of it.
>
> You heard it here first then!! Vive la liste!
> (?)
> I was told in person yesterday by the manager of the CPW in bracknell,
> so it is recent. Maybe it will be in the press?
> Although a theft from a phone/computer shop is maybe not big news.
> There was no violence, animals or children or OAPs involved!
>
> alan c
>
> >
> >>
> >> Ian
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com<http://mail-eu.gmx.com/fm07/cgi/g.fcgi/mail/new?&to=ubuntu-uk-bounces%40lists.ubuntu.com>
> >> [mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On<http://mail-eu.gmx.com/fm07/cgi/g.fcgi/mail/new?&to=ubuntu-uk-bounces%40lists.ubuntu.com>Behalf Of alan c
> >> Sent: 26 August 2008 15:45
> >> 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 desparate 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.
> >> --
> >> alan cocks
> >> Kubuntu user#10391
> >> Linux user #360648
> >>
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> >>
> >
> >
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