<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><title></title><head><meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><style type="text/css"> html, body {overflow-x: hidden; } html { width:100%; height:100%;margin:0px; padding:0px; overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: hidden; }body { font-size: 100.01%; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:transparent; overflow:show; background-image:none; margin:0px; padding:5px; }p { margin:0px; padding:0px; } body { font-size: 12px; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } p { margin: 0; padding: 0; } blockquote { padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; } blockquote.quote { border-left: 1px solid #CCC; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; } .misspelled { background: transparent url(//images.gmx.net/images/outsource/application/mailclient/com/gb/resource_1.30.2/mailclient/widgets/basic/parts/maileditor/spellchecking_underline.gif) repeat-x scroll center bottom; } .correct {} .unknown {} .ignored {}</style></head><body id="bodyElement" style=""> Are you sure Ubuntu was on it? Because their website says its shipped with XP. <blockquote class="quote" style="font-size: 12px;" face="Verdana" type="cite">----- 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! <div style=""> Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > In message of 26 Aug, "Ian Pascoe" <<a href="http://mail-eu.gmx.com/fm07/cgi/g.fcgi/mail/new?&to=softy.lofty.ilp%40btinternet.com">softy.lofty.ilp@btinternet.com</a>> 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: <a href="http://mail-eu.gmx.com/fm07/cgi/g.fcgi/mail/new?&to=ubuntu-uk-bounces%40lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> [mailto:<a href="http://mail-eu.gmx.com/fm07/cgi/g.fcgi/mail/new?&to=ubuntu-uk-bounces%40lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com]On</a> 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 >> >> -- >> <a href="http://mail-eu.gmx.com/fm07/cgi/g.fcgi/mail/new?&to=ubuntu-uk%40lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> >> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> >> >> >> > > -- Kubuntu user#10391 Linux user #360648 -- <a href="http://mail-eu.gmx.com/fm07/cgi/g.fcgi/mail/new?&to=ubuntu-uk%40lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </div></blockquote> </body></html>