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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 18:53 Edited at: 11th Jul 2005 18:54
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For those with mind-reading and telepathy powers (or who read my world famous blog), will know that my second latop was unceremoniously removed my dewllings without my prior consent (ie it was nicked).

Fortunately this time, I had house insurance, and more fortunately they paid out. Which leads me to : Does anyone know where fake (ie cardboard/plastic) laptop-look-alikes can be found (the type that furniture shops have scattered around it make the place look homely), preferably cheaply...

The idea being to sort of catch the miscreant in the act...


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Mnemonix
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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 19:10
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Just hire my daleks to guard your new computing device. They are available for the tiny cost of 10 Skaro dollars per dalek per day.

Alternatively, you could purchase some cardboard lookalikes and hope they steal the lookalikes.

In answering your question, I dont know.

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PowerSoft
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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 19:33
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You could nick one

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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 20:17
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Ooo, I sense a Motion-sensitive web-cam coming on!



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PowerSoft
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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 20:33
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Example


hehehe...

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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 20:49 Edited at: 11th Jul 2005 20:50
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Quote: " Ooo, I sense a Motion-sensitive web-cam coming on!"

Indeed - Mnemonix has had the pleasure of previewing it...

Quote: "They are available for the tiny cost of 10 Skaro dollars per dalek per day."

For that I could get 20 Cybermen and a Yeti...


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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 21:06
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connectix radar was out in the eighties for mac and it snapshatted anyone who went past the camera while the comp was on, i caught the cat quite a few times but never a burglar

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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 21:40 Edited at: 11th Jul 2005 21:41
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Unless it was a Cat Burglar!

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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 22:01
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Ah - cats cant hold laptops.


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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 22:23
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Wanna BET, chum?

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Benjamin
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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 22:39
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Whats the point of it filming the person if they are gonna steal it anyway?


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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 22:41
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Check the link I posted, titled as "Example"

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Clever..


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Posted: 11th Jul 2005 23:03
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you get it to email the pictures it takes.

remember any fake laptop has to weigh about the same as a real one and can't have shifting weight distrobution (weights sliding around) or leak sand (unless you normally leave your lapotp on a beach)

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Posted: 12th Jul 2005 02:12 Edited at: 12th Jul 2005 02:13
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what about apple's?
I would put a book or something in it.
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Quote: "connectix radar was out in the eighties for mac and it snapshatted anyone who went past the camera while the comp was on, i caught the cat quite a few times but never a burglar"


Indi, why are you succumbing to the n00bish ways of writing? There's bad capitalization and punctuation everywhere!!! AUUUGGHH!!!




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Posted: 12th Jul 2005 07:37
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Go to your local furniture store. They'll have fake computers on the computer desks, and there'll be a sticker on the bottom which will have the name of a (probably local) manufacturer of the plastic mockups .

That's how I found out... but I can't remember the name

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Posted: 12th Jul 2005 08:42
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Quote: "remember any fake laptop has to weigh about the same as a real one and can't have shifting weight distrobution (weights sliding around) or leak sand (unless you normally leave your lapotp on a beach)"


Not necessarily (sp?). If you see some goon climb through your window (your hiding in a cupboard or under a lamshade or something similar) and they pick up your fake laptop, even if they realise it's fake and put it down you can still ask them why the hell they were climbing through your window and picking up your fake laptop for in the first place.

Unless there's more than one of them/they're armed, in which case it's best to just stay in the cupboard and pray they don't nick it.



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ionstream, why are you trying to masqueraid yourself as my english teacher?
I left school at least a decade or two ago.

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Quote: " ionstream, why are you trying to masqueraid yourself as my english teacher?"



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Posted: 12th Jul 2005 15:44
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Ian - thats a good idea. Thanks.


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Quote: "that's why we call you "moron""
back at 'cha!! he's cool!!
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Posted: 12th Jul 2005 18:18 Edited at: 12th Jul 2005 18:19
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