[ltp] Don't trust the kensington lock socket

[Richard Neill]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:19:18PM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
>> Some slimebag just stole one of our company laptops, which was an R60e
>> thinkpad, used for video-streaming and transcoding. It was locked to the
>> desk with a kensington lock. The lock itself remains undamaged, and in
>> the locked position, but the thinkpad is missing: the thief quite
>> clearly just ripped it away from the lock, tearing out the socket in the
>> corner of the laptop.
> 
> I once saw a short video on YouTube demonstrating how you can open a
> Kensington lock with a roll of toilet paper (no, really!):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SkKJ4yOKo8

Not good! But this wasn't a failure of the lock: the lock device is
intact, and remains in the secured position. The TP was quite clearly
ripped away from the lock, tearing out the corner of the machine.

> 
>> On another note, I need to replace it: are the R61s generally OK with
>> Linux? A lot of people seem to be having Linux trouble with X61 and T61
>> models. I do need a fast core2-duo CPU, and preferably intel graphics
>> and it must have a sensible 4x3 screen (eg 1024x768), rather than the
>> increasingly common shortscreen (erroneously marketed as "widescreen")
>> monitors.
> 
> I've a T61 with Core 2 Duo and Intel graphics.  Older distros (Ubuntu
> 7.04) had problems with it (no video; no disk; one of the CPUs oopses
> and is taken offline), but newer distros (Ubuntu 7.10) work just fine.
> 

Thanks. In this application, as long as the CPU runs OK, it's all that
counts - I don't need anything fancy like suspend, or even 3-d accel.
Gutsy is what I'd have installed anyway.

Richard