{"id":96,"date":"2004-12-09T00:15:53","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T06:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=96"},"modified":"2004-12-09T00:15:53","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T06:15:53","slug":"laptop-phone-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Laptop Phone Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a fairly large number of laptops in our school districts.  Because laptops are so portable, we&#8217;ve had our fair share of them stolen over the years.  There are a number of products that can be purchased and installed on the laptop that make it easier to recover them if they get stolen.  One that comes to mind is a piece of software called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcphonehome.com\/index.php>PCPhoneHome<\/a> and the Mac equivalent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcphonehome.com\/index.php>MacPhoneHome<\/a>.  While I&#8217;ve looked at these two products and believe they are quite good, they aren&#8217;t cheap when you look at rolling it out to hundreds of laptops.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I&#8217;ve been researching ways to accomplish something similar using the tools that are built right in to Mac OS X.  I&#8217;ve found a couple of interesting leads and plan to explore this further in the coming days.  Mac OS X Hints has a particular interesting set of hints in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macosxhints.com\/article.php?story=20041130093947460\">this post<\/a>.  Once I&#8217;ve tested a few of these ideas, I&#8217;ll be sure and post again with more information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a fairly large number of laptops in our school districts. Because laptops are so portable, we&#8217;ve had our fair share of them stolen over the years. There are a number of products that can be purchased and installed on the laptop that make it easier to recover them if they get stolen. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-os-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}