<div dir="ltr">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. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Seb Ward <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@gmx.it">ubuntu@gmx.it</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div> Are you sure Ubuntu was on it? Because their website says its shipped with XP. <blockquote style="font-size: 12px;" face="Verdana" type="cite"> <div class="Ih2E3d">----- Original Message ----- From: alan c Sent: 27/08/08 11:35 am To: British Ubuntu Talk </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with Bolt Cutters! <div> 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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> >> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </div></div></div></blockquote> </div> -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> </div>