[ale] lojack for laptops?

[Jeff Lightner]

By the way it might be possible to satisfy Dilbert's PHB.

If you had a solenoid that was held open by power (battery or AC) all
the time that closed on a piezoelectric device when that power was off
the piezoelectric device could be used to power a light to tell him the
battery was dead.  I'm wondering how many PHBs would ignore the extra
weight of all that for the "benefit" of such a light.  

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Preston Boyington
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:52 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] lojack for laptops?

Bob Toxen wrote:
<snipped>
> Seriously, this would be a device physically attached to this but not
> electrically connected -- since all such PCMCIA cards and such don't
> have power unless the laptop is running.  Hence, it's not really
laptop
> related as you could just as easily attach it to your pen (if it were
> small enough).

well my thought was more of something that was small and self powered
that would be inside the laptop.  that way the laptop in question would
not need to be powered on for it to activate.

if a laptop gets stolen a software solution is not good since it has a
high chance of being wiped.  if parted out then the wiped drive would
just go on eBay along with the ram, mobo, screen, etc.


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