Well, it was an iMac and the only other things stolen were a few laptops that were fairly recent so I'm sure they're fenceable for some decent money pretty quickly. I think these guys were pros, they left no mess or anything so all in all I'm pleased with the service. Sampsa On 27 Dec 2009, at 20:37, Mark Wickens wrote: Very sorry to hear that Sampsa. Of course it is completely pointless to steal such items. Reminds me of the time I had a pair of wings stolen off one model aircraft and the body off another. You can only help feel sorry for such toerags for having such pathetic lives to have to resort to such bollocks. Mark. On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:26 +0000, Sampsa Laine wrote: Alas, the server is not merely down but has been stolen - as my flatmate went to powercycle it it was realised that there had been a burglary. Oh well, shit happens. Sampsa On 27 Dec 2009, at 19:58, Robert Armstrong wrote: just FYI, my part of HECnet is down - the box on which my bridge and the GORVAX SIMH instance run has mysteriously gone offline and I'm about 3 megameters away from power cycling it. FWIW, CHARON (formerly CODA, formerly LEGATO) is also down and I am more like 3.5 megameters (is that "Mm"?) away. Sadly I won't be back until a week from tomorrow and my flatmate (though not dizzy or otherwise) is with me now. We'll just have to tough it out until then. Sorry. Actually the machine is probably OK but it seems like my crappy DSL modem has picked this moment to quit. Probably it knows that I'm much too far away to kick it... Bob --