MASSACHUSETTS COMPUTERS STOLEN Community Center Set Back: Theft « DoctorMO’s Blag:

Community Center Set Back: Theft

I have some bad news for people who were following my progress in getting an Ubuntu computer lab set up for a local Boston housing project. someone broke in to the secure server room and pinched all the computers and most of the monitors.

Rather sad set of affairs really and now we only have 2 machines left (which were somewhere else for repairs) and we hadn’t even gotten the center off the ground yet. So the task force will be looking to the Boston city to see if they can get some more computers to replace the stolen ones and the police will do their best to track old city office computers.

I just have to think, what could they possibly do with computers that old anyway? They’d only just about run Ubuntu well enough to do browsing web and a couple of other things. Oh well, best to just move forwards I guess and there is a grant in the works and locals who will no doubt step forward with help, so never fear.

Update: There was yet another break in, although nothing was stolen since we moved everything that was left behind. It’s shocking that these people would have the gall to try it again.