Items stolen

[ericy]

This is more like a rant. Two of my USB flash drives were stolen and I suspect a Verizon FIOS installation technician took them.

The only thing related to Ubuntu is one of the drives has Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha3 (LiveUSB :) ) on it.

I thought I was carefully enough. I cleaned my desk a bit before I let the technician use it, but I forgot those two drives. One of the drives had a strap attached to it and that was the only thing I found today--apparently he found it tacky or something. If he didn't remove it and left it behind, I'd have thought I misplaced them somewhere.

Anyway, I will file a complaint to Verizon tomorrow and see what will happen.

At least I gave myself a reason to order a $15 4GB USB flash drive.

[Vitamin-Carrot]

Stings when crap like that happens i make sure i take my drives home with me everynite ... im not buying another 16GB

[barbedsaber]

At least I gave myself a reason to order a $15 4GB USB flash drive.

$15, I would pay that for a 1gig here.

[zachtib]

$15, I would pay that for a 1gig here.

There was an 8GB for $20 + $5 S&H on Woot.com a week ago.

[barbedsaber]

There was an 8GB for $20 + $5 S&H on Woot.com a week ago.

Postage and handling to the land down under?

[Atomic Dog]

At least it was just a couple of thumb drives. I showed up to work to find my 22" monitor missing!

[NovaAesa]

@barbedsaber, I got a 2GB one for $5 about 2 months ago. They are cheap in Australia if you look out for bargins.

[barbedsaber]

I'm eying off a 16 gig (on ze inernets) atm, no point getting a 4 gig, when I need 8, and want 16.

[billgoldberg]

That's why you don't leave strangers alone in your house.

Whenever a guy(s) are doing something in my house, I'm sticking to them like glue.

And while you watch them doing their job, you learn some new things.

[Wobedraggled]

You best get some free service for this, and yeah never leave a "contractor" in the house alone.

[zmjjmz]

I've generally heard and learned that ISP installation technicians usually don't do anything useful, but FiOS may be different.

[stimpack]

I've taken to encrypting all my flash drives with Truecrypt, I lose these things on a regular basis, now I just lose a cheap bit of hardware instead of sensitive personal information.