Re: Laptop service and hidden Linux

From: Steven Kurylo <sk_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Tue Jan 30 2007 - 11:43:07 CST

> I will be travelling out of the country in March, and have heard horror
> stories about Canadian custom's agents confiscating laptops that have
> "strange" things like Linux on them. (They don't know how to do an
> image search to see if you're bringing back kiddie porn.) So, the
> question is...

Even a few months after 9/11 I never had any problems.

I have had several nice guards explain to me that the need to see this
thing called the "B-I-O-S" when they press the power button. Once
they see it, they can do this really cool trick - they hold down the
power button and it turns the computer off! And it didn't even hurt
my "windows" because it was turned off during the "B-I-O-S" phase.

Since 2003 I don't think they've even turned on my computer.
Received on Tue Jan 30 11:43:31 2007

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