[Noisebridge-discuss] Missing laptop followup

[Mark Cohen]

I think the lessons here are that not all members or NB space users are on this list, and not everyone is honest. 

Until there are lockers with locks, I would probably recommend not storing anything in the space that you actually care about.

I guess "Fool me once, shame on you.. Fool me twice, shame on me" applies.



On May 23, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Foote wrote:

> While on the thread about member shelves, the missing NB laptop has
> not shown up. It was a Thinkpad T40 (pretty sure, or a T41),
> identifying marks were a NB sticker and white Apple stickers (heh) on
> the front and the power supply, which is also missing, along with a
> mouse.
> 
> Result of this experiment with communitarianism seems to be an
> resounding FAIL. And, sadly, not my first:
> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2010-March/012896.html
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org>
> Date: Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:56 PM
> Subject: Missing laptop
> To: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> 
> 
> There was a Noisebridge Thinkpad sitting on my member shelf. It's gone.
> 
> I feel proprietary about it as I resuscitated it out of the pile,
> including purchasing a disk for it (it was diskless) and installing a
> special kernel to drive the CNC mill. I use it to teach the occasional
> class and to loan to visitors.
> 
> Please return it.
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