How to protect your laptop from theft.Each day about 2,000 laptop computers are stolen. Many of these thefts could be prevented. Here are some prudent steps you can take to prevent your portable computer from becoming a police statistic. GENERAL RULES [] Lock your notebook in your office during off hours. [] Review and understand the laptop insurance coverage included in your business and homeowners policies to ensure you have coverage for theft. [] Keep only the most necessary proprietary information on the portable. [] Do not load passwords on the laptop, particularly those allowing remote and e-mail communication with clients or the office. [] Never leave your laptop unattended in a public place even for a moment. [] Consider installing a bootup password, available on most portables, so only users with your password can access the hard disk. [] Back up files and store them in some place other than the laptop carrying case. [] Consider engraving engraving, in its broadest sense, the art of cutting lines in metal, wood, or other material either for decoration or for reproduction through printing. In its narrowest sense, it is an intaglio printing process in which the lines are cut in a metal plate with a the company name or some other identification on the laptop cover. [] Be especially cautious about installing any software from unknown sources: it may contain a virus. [] Pay attention to where you use the portable. Be aware that your computer screen can be seen by someone behind or next to you. This is especially true on an airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. . TRAVEL RULES [] Carry your notebook in a strong, padded, nondescript non·de·script adj. Lacking distinctive qualities; having no individual character or form: "This expression gave temporary meaning to a set of features otherwise nondescript" bag. Do not use a carrying case that advertises there's a computer inside. [] Never leave the laptop in full view in your car. [] Never check the computer as luggage at airports. [] Keep hold of your laptop at all times in airports. [] At airport security checkpoints, be observant ob·ser·vant adj. 1. Quick to perceive or apprehend; alert: an observant traveler. See Synonyms at careful. 2. . Don't place the laptop on a conveyor belt conveyor belt One of various devices that provide mechanized movement of material, as in a factory. Conveyor belts are used in industrial applications and also on large farms, in warehousing and freight-handling, and in movement of raw materials. until you are ready to walk through the checkpoint (programming) checkpoint - Saving the current state of a program and its data, including intermediate results, to disk or other non-volatile storage, so that if interrupted the program could be restarted at the point at which the last checkpoint occurred. . |
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