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Hey All, I just wrote a nifty gem and wanted to share(its one of my first). Wondering if anyone would be so kind as to tell me what they think and/or code review it. MailJack - its like LoJack but for the links in your emails. The problem this solves is the ability to track click throughs in emails. https://github.com/synth/mail_jack Basically, you specify what mailers you want to track links in, and what query string parameters you want to include. What''s cool is that y...

...increasing rate. In 2004, Safeware Insurance which sells computer insurance, estimated 600,000 laptop and notebooks a year were being stolen. In 2006 an estimated 750,000 were being swiped, according to Absolute Software a company that makes computer tracking products -- and does not support Linux. LoJack For Laptops, another computer tracing company -- which also does not support Linux -- says FBI statistics show 2 million laptop and notebook computers were stolen in the US in a recent year. While the figures may not agree in detail, they all show that laptop and notebook theft is a major problem -...

I have a Dell Latitude and I am a die-hard Linux user, but I noticed that I also have that Computrace lojack system on my pc in the BIOS. Computrace's program is intertwined into the PC's BIOS and the theory is that even if a thief wipes the PC and do a clean install, Computrace will rebuild itself and continue to 'call home' until it's found. As of this date, Computrace considers th...