Thieves

LFADAM · Posted: Nov 24, 2013 9:33 am Post subject: Thieves

There's a special place for them.

Got me on Friday night. They stole:
-15" MacBook Pro
-13" MacBook Pro
-2 XBox 360s
-2 Flatscreen TVs
-iPod Touch
-2 Headphones
-Backpack+50$ book I got the day before

I hope they get careless. There are ways to track these things...

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

ouch man, that fuggin sucks.

STPHNSN23 · Guest

damn man. bummer. good luck finding a cop who cares enough to pursue it. go check the local pawn shops asap.

E.J. · Ladies Man Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7597 City: Mogadishu

That stinks... Sorry.... There is a special place in Hell for those that steal from others....

LFADAM · Posted: Nov 24, 2013 8:40 pm Post subject:

STPHNSN23, luckily it's a small town so they might care. Also may be related to other thefts.

More importantly we have serial numbers so if they sell anything to a pawn shop it'll get flagged immediately. I don't want to say too much on here since wb.com is my homepage on one of those laptops and they could potentially see this, but I guess it's probably safe since if they get on the internet at all my email will instantly show activity on their IP address and I can track it.

Again, I hope they get careless...so far nothing. I think they have done this before

pyrocasto · Posted: Nov 25, 2013 6:49 am Post subject:

That sucks totally. Living with a cop has the added security of the car parked in the driveway, but a few of our neighbors have been hit recently. I've had plans to get cameras up for a while and at the very latest I'll have them up the day my room mate moves out.

Homeowners insurance gonna cover it, or you gonna fork up for replacements? Only good news would be black friday's this week so no better time to replace them. Laughing

LFADAM · Posted: Nov 25, 2013 2:06 pm Post subject:

pyrocasto, $1000 deductible so we're not going to use it (work laptop is separate). So for now, I'm stuck with a laptop running Windows XP with less than half the hard drive space (30GB) as my 5 year old iPod (80GB).

Good thing I don't have many finals this semester because I don't have any notes either.

Does anyone know how Time Machine works? I backed up my personal laptop probably 2 or 3 months ago. To get all that info off of my external, do I need another identical or nearly identical MacBook or can I hook up any computer to it and get the files off easily? I'm sure I can just get the files off like a USB drive, but if/when I do get another MacBook, will it be as easy as pressing "restore" and having a 3 month old version of my personal laptop back?

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

LFADAM, from Apple:

LFADAM · Posted: Nov 25, 2013 8:28 pm Post subject:

chavez, awesome.

Wait so when it says applications...I can get back Rosetta Stone, MS Office, Final Cut, etc?! Sounds too good to be true

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Pretty sure time machine grabs your /applications folder along with your /library and /user folder.

Anyhow, it should bring it all back...