Free Geek Robbed

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Posted by kdawson on Monday November 20, 2006 @04:40PM from the free-as-in-ripped-off dept.

Ellen Wilson writes, "Portland, Oregon, non-profit Free Geek, which turns old PCs into Linux boxen, has been robbed of about $4500 worth of hardware. Portlanders are asked to keep an eye out for suspicious sales of Ubuntu laptops." This blog post has some details of labeling that could help to spot the stolen laptops. BoingBoing picked up the story and added that another local outfit, the Independent Publishing Resource Center, which supports Portland's zine scene, had been hit on the previous night.

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Business in the US gets robbed (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @04:42PM (#16920304)

If this doesn't make it on CNN, I am so firing off an email.

Re:Free Geekin' (Score:1, Funny)

by DiamondGeezer ( 872237 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @04:43PM (#16920310) Homepage

Yes, but make sure the book runs Linux first.

Uh. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @04:46PM (#16920370)

"suspicious sales of Ubuntu laptops"

So, ANY sales of Ubuntu laptops?

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:2, Funny)

by jdray ( 645332 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @04:51PM (#16920482) Homepage Journal

boxen boxen boxen boxen

Personally, I think it's an imminently useable colloquialism.

Really eager to use Ubuntu (Score:4, Funny)

by businessnerd ( 1009815 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @04:56PM (#16920554)

These guys must have been so eager to use Ubuntu that they couldn't wait long enough to download and burn their own copy or order one in the mail. While I admire their enthusiasm over Linux, I can't condone stealing stealing a copy.

Re:Who would want them? (Score:3, Funny)

by idontgno ( 624372 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @04:57PM (#16920570) Journal

My Kubuntu laptop is dah bomb.
Sony batteries, after all.

Re:Business in the US gets robbed (Score:5, Funny)

by TFGeditor ( 737839 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:00PM (#16920630) Homepage

In other news tonight, Microsoft kingpin Steve Ballmer was arrested in connection with the theft of several thousand dollars worth of laptop PCs configured to run the competing Linux operating system. As he was led away by police, witnesses reported Ballmer saying, "It has to stop somewhere! Won't someone *please* think of the children!" Ballmer then reportedly munbled over and over, "Damned pinguins, damned pinguins," until police took him away.

Well we know that it wasn't (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:01PM (#16920636)

Hans Reiser

What's a zine? (Score:5, Funny)

by krell ( 896769 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:08PM (#16920738) Journal

It's sort of like a paper blog.....

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:16PM (#16920862)

Please stop using this boxen word. There is no such thing is boxen.

Allowing new words to the language embiggens us all. Besides that, it's a perfectly cromulent word.

Re:About 5 years ago I was robbed (Score:5, Funny)

by dr_dank ( 472072 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:21PM (#16920922) Homepage Journal

walked slowly with our hands in the air

Did you then wave them around like you just didn't care?

Re:Well we know that it wasn't (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:22PM (#16920948)

Dude, whoever you are, you're goin to hell.

And taking me with you, cause that's *damn* funny. Sick. But funny.

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:5, Funny)

by beadfulthings ( 975812 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:31PM (#16921082) Journal

Oh, dear! It's a good thing that you're probably too young to remember the vaxen. They might have driven you to violence.

Linux not ready for prime time (Score:5, Funny)

by fyoder ( 857358 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:32PM (#16921108) Homepage Journal

When I booted my laptop, it went into recovery mode as though someone turned it on, saw the linux boot up screen and thought, "wtf is this crap?! Jeez... I can't sell this...

Nine out of ten thieves agree, Linux is not ready for prime time.

Re:Not a book . . . (Score:3, Funny)

by Kingrames ( 858416 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:36PM (#16921168)

What good does it do to aim four times?
Just fire away, geez.

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:3, Funny)

by Mister Whirly ( 964219 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:42PM (#16921258) Homepage

Quit complaining or I'll infect you with some virii I got from an ATM machine when I entered you're PIN number wrong.

Re:teaching a man to fish (Score:5, Funny)

by Gospodin ( 547743 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:45PM (#16921316)

You mean like: Give a man a Linux box and he'll be confused for a day; Teach a man Linux and he'll be confused for the rest of his life?

I kid, of course... ;)

Re:I'll help (Score:3, Funny)

by Mister Whirly ( 964219 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:47PM (#16921346) Homepage

"I can't stand thieves in the first place, but from FreeGeek? That's low."

I know, I mean I can't stand a thief without a Code of Ethics.

Re:Free Geekin' (Score:4, Funny)

by bitt3n ( 941736 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:48PM (#16921356)

this is almost enough to make one lose faith in the noble enterprise of burglary.

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:3, Funny)

by gardyloo ( 512791 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:54PM (#16921450)

Cute. You think it's an impending or threateningly useable neologism?

Now I can't decide whether you had a good point or not.

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:2, Funny)

by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) ( 613870 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:55PM (#16921468) Journal

Try 'eminently'.

Kaypro (Score:3, Funny)

by djdavetrouble ( 442175 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:56PM (#16921486) Homepage

I love Kaypros, you insensitive clod! Why, I just ran across someone selling one for $20 on craigslist last night.
I was seriously considering buying it. That was one fine luggable CPM Computer !
kaypro for sale [craigslist.org]

I still insist that a Kaypro and an Epson MX-80 is enough computer for any person.
I even had a text only version of Lode Runner on that baby.

There's only one reply possible to that... (Score:3, Funny)

by jd ( 1658 ) writes: <imipak@yahoGINSBERGo.com minus poet> on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:57PM (#16921518) Homepage Journal

Yo geeky ladies around the world

Got a wired box to show you

To telnet the boys and girls

Shell your brother, your sister and your momma too

Windows is going down

And you know what just to do

Wave your RAM in the air like you don't care

Run Glide with your games as hackers stop and stare

DVD and DVD and DVD then boot

Come on Linux tell me what's the word

Word op! Everybody say

When you hear the system call your drive will be getting underway.

Re:Not a book . . . (Score:4, Funny)

by rucs_hack ( 784150 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:58PM (#16921534)

the open source guideline for laptop chucking

aim early, aim often...

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:3, Funny)

by mazarin5 ( 309432 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:58PM (#16921538) Journal

It begs the question: Is this worth loosing you're temper over this?

In related news.... (Score:2, Funny)

by TranscendentalAnarch ( 1005937 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @06:25PM (#16921936)

... a warehouse in Portland was found to be storing a large Beowulf cluster pieced together from old hardware for the purpose of sending out advertisements for "V1agra/C1alis".

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:5, Funny)

by hey! ( 33014 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @06:44PM (#16922212) Homepage Journal

I often wonder whether the person who coined the term "neologism" did so with a twinge of guilty pleasure.

But then that's probably just me.

Re:Not a book . . . (Score:3, Funny)

by Azrael43 ( 834220 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @06:58PM (#16922370)

the open source guideline for laptop chucking aim early, aim often...

Shouldn't that be:
"Gaim early, Gaim often..."
I'll get my coat...

Re:Not to disagree too much (Score:2, Funny)

by AlgorithMan ( 937244 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @07:52PM (#16923064) Homepage

If you could buy a Star Trek style replicator for the price of a PC, I guess we would see a lot more free hardware.
replicators will never become legal because... you can copy audio CDs with them...

Re:Oh YEAH? (Score:2, Funny)

by enrgeeman ( 867240 ) writes: <slashdot@enrgeeman.com> on Monday November 20, 2006 @09:09PM (#16923806) Homepage

on a plane.

Re:Not a book . . . (Score:1, Funny)

by Kingrames ( 858416 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @09:10PM (#16923814)

Why do all the stupid puns get modded funny?
That was like, the gaimest joke ever.

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:2, Funny)

by teh_chrizzle ( 963897 ) writes: <kill-9@@@hobbiton...org> on Monday November 20, 2006 @09:33PM (#16924020) Homepage

boxen boxen boxen boxen
MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!

Re:I'll help (Score:3, Funny)

by identity0 ( 77976 ) writes: on Monday November 20, 2006 @11:36PM (#16924848) Journal

I'm in Portland, and when I'm not at work I could easily be mistaken for a criminal (I look like a skater).

I think everything after your third word was redundant... "I'm in Portland" pretty much implies the rest :-)

But yeah, it's pretty low stealing from FreeGeek.

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Business in the US gets robbed (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Free Geekin' (Score:1, Funny)

Uh. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:2, Funny)

Really eager to use Ubuntu (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Who would want them? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Business in the US gets robbed (Score:5, Funny)

Well we know that it wasn't (Score:1, Funny)

What's a zine? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:5, Funny)

Re:About 5 years ago I was robbed (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Well we know that it wasn't (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:5, Funny)

Linux not ready for prime time (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Not a book . . . (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:3, Funny)

Re:teaching a man to fish (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I'll help (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Free Geekin' (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:2, Funny)

Kaypro (Score:3, Funny)

There's only one reply possible to that... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Not a book . . . (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:3, Funny)

In related news.... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Not a book . . . (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Not to disagree too much (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Oh YEAH? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Not a book . . . (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Boxen Is Not A Word (Score:2, Funny)

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