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<BODY>Hi Rich,<br>
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Thanks for the note. You have a good point about theft and such. I think that's the approach I'll take. Just take something simple. Maybe I'll use an old hard drive and install Ubuntu 12. I mainly want to do web browsing and such. And, I can get to my email through the web browser through my ISP. However, that's not nearly as useful as the standard email client.<br>
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Now that you mention it, I guess I need to think about possible theft even in the local area. I keep a pretty tight rein on the laptop, but a theft would really be a pain.<br>
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Just so you know. When you quoted my original reply below, both on K9 Mail on my tablet and on Eudora on my laptop, the quote is about 8 screens wide, and doesn't word wrap. I've never seen that before.<br>
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Hope you're doing well.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Ron<br>
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Sent from my Android Acer A500 tablet with bluetooth keyboard and K-9 Mail.<br>
Please excuse my potential brevity.<br>
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(To whom it may concern. My email address has changed. Replying to former<br>
messages prior to 03/31/12 with my personal address will go to the wrong<br>
address. Please send all personal correspondence to the new address.)<br>
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(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to<br>
call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy<br>
mailing lists and such. I don't always see new email messages very quickly.)<br>
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Ron Frazier<br>
770-205-9422<br>
linuxdude AT <a href="http://techstarship.com">techstarship.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner@tux86.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Use common sense. Don't take tax records and sensitive data about on your laptop. Don't expose high value items to high risk situations (like theft!) Go with a basic laptop with what you need and nothing else. Keep it simple and you won't likely have any problems... <BR>
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Rich<BR>
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On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 11:09 -0400, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
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Hi HP, and all,
That's good info. Thanks.
I get the concept of having proper docs, not taking plants, food, animals, antiquities, weapons, etc. without proper docs, and not acting like a terrorist. But I'm especially interested in what to do with my computer. I have legal stuff, but not necessarily politically correct. And, things like my tax records and passport records are there, so I wouldn't really want it searched or seized. Just Google something like border crossing computer horror story, etc., or review archives from the EFF, and similar organizations, and it's easy to find incidences of people being harassed without "enough" cause, and whose rights were violated. Now, if this doesn't generally apply to the Canada / US border, that's fine with me. But, I'm wondering if you guys have thoughts about the need to protect information. Some people encrypt their hard drive, etc. But, then they can demand you unlock it. I'm thinking that if I just take a plain vanilla install of Ubuntu, in the unlikely event!
they want to question us, they can look all they want. Nothing there to see.
Sincerely,
Ron
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