August 18, 200520 yr Yesterday I discovered a laptop computer (not mine) in my car, and the most likely place that it would have stowed away is WCCS7. If you are missing a laptop, identify it and I will get it to you. (There is nothing obvious on the HDD to indicate owner.)
August 18, 200520 yr Author Uh, what took so long to find it? A bizarre combination of my son's driving school, my work, and Diet Mt. Dew.
August 19, 200520 yr If its a IBM Thinkpad, 486sx with a expanding keyboard and a missing rear panel than its Oddcomps. I gave it to him, not sure how it'd make it into your car, but just thinking. -Brian
August 19, 200520 yr Author Oddcomp was the second person I thought of, as we did spend some time at WCSS7. The first person I thought of was the guy to whom I was loaning my t-wagon. Both said it wasn't theirs, but offered to make a home for it...
August 19, 200520 yr Author Bump!!!... ...for the lonely losers who are at home on Friday night!!! (I technically am not, as I have to go to work instead of stay at home and watch cr*ppy TV or surf the net. :-\ )
August 21, 200520 yr nobody wants it.. must've been a "tip"... wish I got tipped that well Hmmm...tipped for what?
August 21, 200520 yr His was the only laptop I saw at WCSS7 and he's not online much lately. Prob "AUSTIN"S
August 21, 200520 yr His was the only laptop I saw at WCSS7 and he's not online much lately. wrong answer ed.. you saw me sitting over by jason's campsite in a chair dinkin away at my fuel maps on my laptop sooo pffftt! hey north i got .. programs that can find usefull info on things like those things to try and determine the ownership..
August 21, 200520 yr If you open word and then go to HELP and pick "more information about micro office word" it will tell you who it's licenced to... that might help!
August 21, 200520 yr If it is not password protected, start it up, open the e-mail and see who the e-mails are sent to. It is kind of an invasion of privatcy, but if it help to get the laptop back to it's owner, what the heck. I still can believe that someone by now hasn't noticed that their laptop is missing.
August 21, 200520 yr where as i am with dr rx .but if who ever had the laptop is like me and puts as l;ittle personal info on any computer they use as possible\ then further . indepth snooping is required
August 21, 200520 yr Author Well, after spending the last 26 years in computers, and owning a computer prior to the IBM PC, I am fairly well versed in things computer. BTW, did I mention that I programmed for several decades in Mainframe Assembler, and have coded in various microprocessor assembly languages? Oh, and I broke through XP Pro's security in order to rescue data files. (I learned a LOT about breaking XP from that task. Very easy...) I have a pretty good idea how to snoop for information, and I did so. At the risk of giving away information to ID the laptop, it has almost nothing on it, not even a setup web-browser/email. Word is not installed; a couple of text files identify the user as a tween/teen, probably male. The OS is "licensed" to an indeterminant name.
August 22, 200520 yr A bizarre combination of my son's driving school, my work, and Diet Mt. Dew. my wife would like to know where the heck you found diet mt. dew. she looked all over and found none!
August 22, 200520 yr Author my wife would like to know where the heck you found diet mt. dew. she looked all over and found none! It's in most stores in the area, at least the ones that have shelf space to spare. Should have asked me, as I probably had 2-3 half-cases in my car at WCSS7. I was first introduced to it 8-9 years ago, when a coworker from the Minneapolis office told us about it and "smuggled" some back to us. I remember one trip where he lugged his HUGE suitcase into the office and opened it to reveal like 8 cases of Diet Mt. Dew. The laptop was buried under about 2 cases-worth of crushed empties. (My "empties" box tipped over.)
August 22, 200520 yr Well, after spending the last 26 years in computers, and owning a computer prior to the IBM PC, I am fairly well versed in things computer. BTW, did I mention that I programmed for several decades in Mainframe Assembler, and have coded in various microprocessor assembly languages? Oh, and I broke through XP Pro's security in order to rescue data files. (I learned a LOT about breaking XP from that task. Very easy...) I have a pretty good idea how to snoop for information, and I did so. At the risk of giving away information to ID the laptop, it has almost nothing on it, not even a setup web-browser/email. Word is not installed; a couple of text files identify the user as a tween/teen, probably male. The OS is "licensed" to an indeterminant name. yeah yeah yeah... i often forget your prolly a hell of alot smarter than me and by alot i mean.. a really huge large amount lol and i also stand by me previous theory that the laptop is stolen and someone ditched it in your car in a parking lot somewhere... like work ? or.. we the collective that is usmb need to figure out where you hid the body hehhehehehe
August 22, 200520 yr Author yeah yeah yeah... i often forget your prolly a hell of alot smarter than me and by alot i mean.. a really huge large amount lol... I make no claims to being smart... just that I have lots of experience and know my way around PCs and operating systems. If you could convince a chimp not to spend so much time throwing its poop it could be just as "smart" as I am. ...and i also stand by me previous theory that the laptop is stolen and someone ditched it in your car in a parking lot somewhere... like work ? or.. we the collective that is usmb need to figure out where you hid the body hehhehehehe Well, the car has been parked in my backyard since WCSS7, since my son is taking driving school and driving Christine (with a 3AT) and I don't have enough room out front to park both at the moment. So, unless my Labaradors mugged a boy, I don't think that it got to me since WCSS7. As far as where the body(bodies) is(are) hidden, why don't you come and check out my 10 thickly wooded acres...
August 22, 200520 yr As far as where the body(bodies) is(are) hidden, why don't you come and check out my 10 thickly wooded acres... I was wondering why you kept trying to get me to go in there!
August 22, 200520 yr oh sh$t !!!!he knows where i live. oy yeah, and i teleported it into your car on accident.i was trying to send your pillow pat. if your not pat , you really don't know how funny that is...... 4
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