Windows PC Stolen: What Should I Do?

August 4th, 2008 by James Gray

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An obviously dopey thief broke into my house and stole a clunky, dust-covered Windows Pentium III desktop. Oddly, he/she left behind my two cherished R Cubed Linux laptops and a big USB harddisk. What should I do?

Tell the police and put out an APB to the pawn shops. Get the machine back at all costs!!!
12% (78 votes)
Tell the police but give them a Knoppix disk. Once they catch the thief, they can enlighten him with a real OS.
27% (180 votes)
Don't tell the police...your home is now exorcised of its evil spirit. Jeez, James, don't you see the thief did you a favor?
61% (402 votes)
Total votes: 660

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smpratz's picture

If he's ever caught, you

On August 4th, 2008 smpratz says:

If he's ever caught, you should recommend he gets off with time served.

barryp's picture

It's obvious, isn't it?!?

On August 4th, 2008 barryp says:

Obviously, having examined all of your computers, the thief decided to go with the one that had "value" ... after all, those other ones are running a "free operating system" ... it's a little hard to "shift" stuff that's free, isn't it? ;-)

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The thief should be caught

On August 4th, 2008 Tomek (not verified) says:

The thief should be caught anyway lest he commits more crimes. If you didn't use that old windows machine you could install Gnu/Linux on it as well and either find some use for it, donate it or simply give it away.

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