Amd Athlon Xp-m 2800+

[leonarmston]

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234+10 January 2004 - 21:45--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Virtualbody1234 @ 10 January 2004 - 21:45)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by DWk@10 January 2004 - 13:25
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@10 January 2004 - 11:36
nice joke but I have formatted it and installed windows xp professional and my own software, i cant be doing with the pre installed software. It aint stolen i dont think, I have an invoice for it from his company.

thats not a joke....

That&#39;s right. I&#39;m not joking.

Even if you format and reinstall everything, it will still &#39;phone home.&#39;

It&#39;s a Hardware device not software. [/b][/quote]
yeh, yeh whatever matey. Never heard of anything like it. What type of hardware is it? Can u buy it from a computer shop, E.T Phone home device?&#33;?&#33;?&#33; lol

[_John_Lennon_]

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@10 January 2004 - 17:45

That&#39;s right. I&#39;m not joking.

Even if you format and reinstall everything, it will still &#39;phone home.&#39;

It&#39;s a Hardware device not software.

I ask again, how does it know if its stolen?

[DWk]

Originally posted by _John_Lennon_+10 January 2004 - 20:15--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (_John_Lennon_ @ 10 January 2004 - 20:15)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Virtualbody1234@10 January 2004 - 17:45

That&#39;s right. I&#39;m not joking.

Even if you format and reinstall everything, it will still &#39;phone home.&#39;

It&#39;s a Hardware device not software.

I ask again, how does it know if its stolen? [/b][/quote]
doesnt matter......it can just be triggered from outside when it connects to the internet.......

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by leonarmston+10 January 2004 - 18:02--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (leonarmston &#064; 10 January 2004 - 18:02)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@10 January 2004 - 21:45

Originally posted by DWk@10 January 2004 - 13:25
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@10 January 2004 - 11:36
nice joke but I have formatted it and installed windows xp professional and my own software, i cant be doing with the pre installed software. It aint stolen i dont think, I have an invoice for it from his company.

thats not a joke....

That&#39;s right. I&#39;m not joking.

Even if you format and reinstall everything, it will still &#39;phone home.&#39;

It&#39;s a Hardware device not software.

yeh, yeh whatever matey. Never heard of anything like it. What type of hardware is it? Can u buy it from a computer shop, E.T Phone home device?&#33;?&#33;?&#33; lol [/b][/quote]
Well just because you haven&#39;t heard about it doesn&#39;t make it not exist.

It&#39;s a service that many corporate laptops have in then to deter theft. They pay a yearly fee for the &#39;phone home&#39; service.

[_John_Lennon_]

Originally posted by DWk+11 January 2004 - 07:26--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DWk @ 11 January 2004 - 07:26)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by _John_Lennon_@10 January 2004 - 20:15
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@10 January 2004 - 17:45

That&#39;s right. I&#39;m not joking.

Even if you format and reinstall everything, it will still &#39;phone home.&#39;

It&#39;s a Hardware device not software.

I ask again, how does it know if its stolen?

doesnt matter......it can just be triggered from outside when it connects to the internet....... [/b][/quote]
Once again, how can it be trigged from outside? Because how can it be triggered, if doesnt know it stolen. ANd how does it know, and the company know, which one it is?

[DWk]

John are u serious? Triggered outside by the company. For example, the customer that bought the computer and the service call the company and say "my computer was stolen, please find it", so the company starts pinging the device, so when the device goes online, they go into the computer.

[Mr. Elmo]

or somebody stole one from a retail store and the store called the company and identify the one that was stolen

[james_bond_rulez]

right... and those "devices" is inside the laptop? or outside? like a expansion cardbus device?

even if it&#39;s stolen, it be used offline and just do word processing, doesn&#39;t have to use it online

i can just buy another wireless cardbus to replace the "integrated" one if it&#39;s bugged, i&#39;ll just rip it out lol

that&#39;s what i would do if it were stolen lol

[_John_Lennon_]

Originally posted by DWk@11 January 2004 - 14:18
John are u serious? Triggered outside by the company. For example, the customer that bought the computer and the service call the company and say "my computer was stolen, please find it", so the company starts pinging the device, so when the device goes online, they go into the computer.

Pinging it? As in using its IP address?

An IP address that is gotten from your ISP, not from your Computer?

Umm, next explination plz.

[DWk]

Pinging the DEVICE using a unique MacAddress. Why is it so hard to believe?