[GLLUG] Lo-Jack

[Julie Code]

Steve,
      Thanks for your advice, I am going to try it.  Caleb took internet 
explorer off, and the system requirements say you need internet explorer, I 
sure hope it will work with firefox! I just realized this late last night.




>From: "Stephan Andre'" <andres at msu.edu>
>To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
>Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Lo-Jack
>Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 22:06:13 -0400
>
>On Wednesday 23 May 2007 21:43:55 Julie Code wrote:
> > Karl,
> >     That's good that you've heard good things about it, I was kind of
> > scared that maybe I wasted my money on it..  By the way, on the back of 
>it
> > it says it 4 year subscription which I am assuming I get a 4 years
> > subscription.  I wonder how it works if it is software, seems like 
>they'd
> > be able to find it on your computer? Does anyone know? I wonder if it 
>works
> > good with Linux or not or just the windows partition I'll have on there. 
>  I
> > bet it won't matter in my case.  There is a website about it at
> >
> > www.lojackforlaptops.com
> >
> > if anyone is interested..... Well...see ya guys tomorrow.
> >
> > Julie
>
>I know of both successes and failures with it.
>
>I doubt it will work with Linux, but you can check that on their
>web site.  If this will be a dual boot machine, make it boot
>Windows by default, such that if it ever does get stolen, the
>lojack software will be running.
>
>Yes, it would certainly be possible to determine if it was on
>the laptop.  This is why some laptop theft organizations
>throw the hard disk away immediately after "getting" it,
>making it that much harder for you to prove the machine
>is yours.
>
>Their site sure is designed to scare people.  I'm wondering
>how accurate those numbers are, but then again there are
>a huge number of laptops out now.  I'm not sure I believe
>that 1 in 10 number.
>
>The  best security for your laptop is to have it with you,
>preferably in a backpack.  Don't leave the poor thing sitting
>there in a coffee shop unguarded, etc.  And of course, make
>backups of the important stuff you do with it.  Organize your
>data such that everything valuable and changing is in some
>directory like w (for work) and then you can roast CD/DVDs
>based on that dir, or dirs inside that.  You'll be surprised at
>how small your day-to-day data is.  I have 320G in my laptop
>and about 6G of the i-can't-lose-it type of stuff, plus a lot more
>static data that doesn't need frequent backups, since it does
>not change over time.
>
>--STeve Andre'
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