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Free Geek Robbed

Ellen Wilson writes, "Portland, Oregon, non-profit Free Geek, which turns old PCs into Linux boxen, has been robbed of about $4500 worth of hardware. Portlanders are asked to keep an eye out for suspicious sales of Ubuntu laptops." This blog post has some details of labeling that could help to spot the stolen laptops. BoingBoing picked up the story and added that another local outfit, the Independent Publishing Resource Center, which supports Portland's zine scene, had been hit on the previous night.

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  1. Business in the US gets robbed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If this doesn't make it on CNN, I am so firing off an email.

    1. Re:Business in the US gets robbed by TFGeditor · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other news tonight, Microsoft kingpin Steve Ballmer was arrested in connection with the theft of several thousand dollars worth of laptop PCs configured to run the competing Linux operating system. As he was led away by police, witnesses reported Ballmer saying, "It has to stop somewhere! Won't someone *please* think of the children!" Ballmer then reportedly munbled over and over, "Damned pinguins, damned pinguins," until police took him away.

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  2. Uh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "suspicious sales of Ubuntu laptops"

    So, ANY sales of Ubuntu laptops?

  3. Really eager to use Ubuntu by businessnerd · · Score: 3, Funny

    These guys must have been so eager to use Ubuntu that they couldn't wait long enough to download and burn their own copy or order one in the mail. While I admire their enthusiasm over Linux, I can't condone stealing stealing a copy.

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  4. What's a zine? by krell · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's sort of like a paper blog.....

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  5. Re:Boxen Is Not A Word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Please stop using this boxen word. There is no such thing is boxen.


    Allowing new words to the language embiggens us all. Besides that, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
  6. Re:About 5 years ago I was robbed by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

    walked slowly with our hands in the air

    Did you then wave them around like you just didn't care?

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  7. Re:Boxen Is Not A Word by beadfulthings · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, dear! It's a good thing that you're probably too young to remember the vaxen. They might have driven you to violence.

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  8. Linux not ready for prime time by fyoder · · Score: 5, Funny
    When I booted my laptop, it went into recovery mode as though someone turned it on, saw the linux boot up screen and thought, "wtf is this crap?! Jeez... I can't sell this...


    Nine out of ten thieves agree, Linux is not ready for prime time.

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  9. Re:Not a book . . . by Kingrames · · Score: 3, Funny

    What good does it do to aim four times?
    Just fire away, geez.

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  10. Re:teaching a man to fish by Gospodin · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean like: Give a man a Linux box and he'll be confused for a day; Teach a man Linux and he'll be confused for the rest of his life?

    I kid, of course... ;)

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  11. Re:Free Geekin' by bitt3n · · Score: 4, Funny

    this is almost enough to make one lose faith in the noble enterprise of burglary.

  12. Re:Not a book . . . by rucs_hack · · Score: 3, Funny

    the open source guideline for laptop chucking

    aim early, aim often...

  13. Re:Boxen Is Not A Word by hey! · · Score: 4, Funny

    I often wonder whether the person who coined the term "neologism" did so with a twinge of guilty pleasure.

    But then that's probably just me.

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  14. Re:Not a book . . . by Azrael43 · · Score: 3, Funny
    the open source guideline for laptop chucking aim early, aim often...

    Shouldn't that be:

    "Gaim early, Gaim often..."

    I'll get my coat...