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Unfortunate. And scary.

What's a C-number?


Serial number on MacbookPros start with a C, mine does at least.


In the article, the guy seemed to believe that it wasn't the serial number. That it was something you had to turn the computer on for or something.

> Derek tells the woman the C-number is off. Not the serial number—they were looking for some other number in the computer.


I don't know Macs, but dell tag numbers are burned into the BIOS. Possibly checking that instead of a sticker that could have a fake serial is a more reliable method of verifying the number. i.e. your less than technically competent thief might not know about this or how to change the BIOS one.


Phonetically C-number and serial number sound close enough that I'd suspect C-number is a memetic mutation of serial number. I wonder if "Derek" was trying to look up the UUID of the system.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/25/mac-101-finding-your-macs...


Maybe the MAC number with the letters spelled out and he didn't hear it fully?


It's your entry in Apple's global customer database.

/s



I feel like I used this years ago...

Oh, I did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809929


Best part, it comes with scmpoo.


Setting it up now, a demo would be sweet!

Setup was easy. Basic functionality seems to be good.

Attaching a file to a task causes issues though: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks/issues/8


That is embarrassing, I fixed the issue. How do I setup a demo? I have never set up a demo apart from a basic HTML on github.io. Could you please provide me some pointers?


Heroku! I can assist if you like, email is in profile.


I was unaware Typecatcher was available on GitHub until just recently. I wrote a blog post about it in 2014, wasn't on GitHub then:

https://longren.io/install-all-google-web-fonts-on-ubuntu-ea...

I've always found it very useful and is not widely known about, apparently.



Interesting, I had figured they had used something along the lines of http://electron.atom.io/


NW.js is very, very similar to Electron


I'd guess they'll switch to something eventually, something after git probably.

Making such a change would be a massive undertaking for WordPress due to its deep integration into theme and plugin repositories.


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