Can theft detectors do anything to laptops and/or hard drives?

Gilly · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:31

By 'theft detectors' do you mean the Police?

InvaderGIR · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:32

I think..

"??"

...is just right, if you elaborated on your question then maybe someone could answer.

Kerplunk · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:36

WHAT?

FrostedNipple · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:37

the sort that you see by the entrances of shops etc

Redz · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:40

Think he means the detectors by a shop's doorway which are activated by the electronic tags on items.

Edit: Bah! I type too slow

Gilly · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:42

You mean anti-theft detectors?

[DOD]Asprilla · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:42

Shouldn't do, otherwise it would also screw up every mobile phone that went through them.

InvaderGIR · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:44

No, it won't.

They activate on the little chippies in the little plastic lumps attached to devices/CDs/Clothes/etc. Someone walks through the detector with stolen goods and it makes noises, that's about it.

FrostedNipple · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:45

ok thank you

nikebee · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:46

Planning on stealing some hardware from OcUK by chance ?

FrostedNipple · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:48

nikebee said:
Planning on stealing some hardware from OcUK by chance ?

no, just in the library they have them and i wondered if it was slowly fragmenting my hard drive every time i went through them with my lappy

bledd · 10 Oct 2008 at 13:58

Adsta · 10 Oct 2008 at 14:01

LOL WHAT !

GarethDW · 10 Oct 2008 at 14:04

FrostedNipple said:
no, just in the library they have them and i wondered if it was slowly fragmenting my hard drive every time i went through them with my lappy

er... for real? Fragmenting your HDD, you say?

Install Linux using an ext3 file system and you won't have to worry about your hard drive getting fragmented - even if it is the "theft detector" that's doing it.

ps - what time do they start serving alcohol at your student union bar?

div0 · 10 Oct 2008 at 14:06

FrostedNipple said:
no, just in the library they have them and i wondered if it was slowly fragmenting my hard drive every time i went through them with my lappy

comedy gold!!

and I thought we'd done away with the Friday afternoon joke threads!

nikebee · 10 Oct 2008 at 14:06

GarethDW said:
er... for real? Fragmenting your HDD, you say?

Install Linux using an ext3 file system and you won't have to worry about your hard drive getting fragmented - even if it is the "theft detector" that's doing it.

ps - what time do they start serving alcohol at your student union bar?

solid state drives is the ultimate solution... and it looks like about 1:29pm

GarethDW · 10 Oct 2008 at 14:08

Completely off topic (which probably isn't a bad thing considering what the topic actually is) but who is the guy in your sig, nikebee?

InvaderGIR · 10 Oct 2008 at 14:08

nikebee said:
solid state drives is the ultimate solution... and it looks like about 1:29pm

Nah, 1:27pm - 1.28pm...he had to have a sip of his shandy before he thought and then posted.

GarethDW said:
Completely off topic (which probably isn't a bad thing considering what the topic actually is) but who is the guy in your sig, nikebee?

Bill Bailey if I'm not mistaken.

FrostedNipple · 10 Oct 2008 at 14:09

GarethDW said:
ps - what time do they start serving alcohol at your student union bar?

they stop?????