<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I have a T40 I offered to donate to replace the missing one. It needs a
little tweaking to get the inverter working for the backlight/ a new
bulb (which there are plenty of here). It sucks that it went missing
but this is something that isn't expensive, if it went missing I'm sure
it wasn't on purpose. I am daily amazed at what a safe space NB is and
how rarely stuff goes missing in such a busy (and let's be
honest--chaotic) environment.<br>Zach<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 5/24/11, rachel lyra hospodar <i><rachel@mediumreality.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: rachel lyra hospodar <rachel@mediumreality.com><br>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Missing laptop followup<br>To: "Corey McGuire" <coreyfro@coreyfro.com><br>Cc: "Jonathan Foote" <jtfoote@ieee.org>, "NoiseBridge Discuss" <noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net><br>Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 8:38 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">we have (and have encouraged) an environment where everything that is<br>laying around can be hacked on.<br><br>we have very inadequate signage designating which piles of things belong<br>to people and which piles of things are up for grabs.<br><br>we have a large and sprawling community that uses our space, many times<br>without any real introduction
to our social patterns and expectations.<br>While we do not have rules, these expectations are like mushy-boundary<br>rules that we are not telling people about and then getting mad when<br>they are not followed.<br><br>I would encourage anyone who has had problems with stuff disappearing in<br>the space to lend some effort towards creating better signage and<br>delineation of space. I can give some advice if you are unsure where to<br>start. Also Miloh has some great ideas about separating the member<br>shelves and the hack shelves so this kind of thing doesn't happen, but<br>it's more work than he can do alone. He also went and got a bunch of<br>plastic bins that he is encouraging members to purpose for their own<br>storage areas (with a small donation to the space, if you please) which<br>will help to create a clear social delineation that would let new users<br>know where they are allowed to stick their fingers, and would
help<br>denizens of the space to see when ne'er do wells are sticking their<br>fingers into someone's personal stuff.<br><br>or, you know, you could just sigh and chalk it up to people being lame.<br> i think we are partially to blame, though.<br><br>R.<br><br>On 5/23/2011 11:47 PM, Corey McGuire wrote:<br>> What is truly annoying about this incident is, it's not like NB isn't<br>> already littered with laptop carcasses. Why would anyone think to troll<br>> the shelves looking for systems?<br>> <br>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Foote <<a ymailto="mailto:jtfoote@ieee.org" href="/mc/compose?to=jtfoote@ieee.org">jtfoote@ieee.org</a><br>> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:jtfoote@ieee.org" href="/mc/compose?to=jtfoote@ieee.org">jtfoote@ieee.org</a>>> wrote:<br>> <br>> While on the thread about member shelves, the missing NB laptop has<br>> not shown up. It
was a Thinkpad T40 (pretty sure, or a T41),<br>> identifying marks were a NB sticker and white Apple stickers (heh) on<br>> the front and the power supply, which is also missing, along with a<br>> mouse.<br>> <br>> Result of this experiment with communitarianism seems to be an<br>> resounding FAIL. And, sadly, not my first:<br>> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2010-March/012896.html" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2010-March/012896.html</a><br>> <br>> <br>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>> From: Jonathan Foote <<a ymailto="mailto:jtfoote@ieee.org" href="/mc/compose?to=jtfoote@ieee.org">jtfoote@ieee.org</a> <mailto:<a
ymailto="mailto:jtfoote@ieee.org" href="/mc/compose?to=jtfoote@ieee.org">jtfoote@ieee.org</a>>><br>> Date: Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:56 PM<br>> Subject: Missing laptop<br>> To: NoiseBridge Discuss <<a ymailto="mailto:noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net" href="/mc/compose?to=noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br>> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net" href="/mc/compose?to=noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a>>><br>> <br>> <br>> There was a Noisebridge Thinkpad sitting on my member shelf. It's gone.<br>> <br>> I feel proprietary about it as I resuscitated it out of the pile,<br>> including purchasing a
disk for it (it was diskless) and installing a<br>> special kernel to drive the CNC mill. I use it to teach the occasional<br>> class and to loan to visitors.<br>> <br>> Please return it.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net" href="/mc/compose?to=Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br>> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net" href="/mc/compose?to=Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a>><br>> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss"
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