2008-04-19 Dell Laptop

A Dell Pentium 4 1.4GHz laptop with 256M RAM, 20G HD in fine condition. When powered on it turned out to have a BIOS password, which is hard to get around. After consulting the interwebs we found the chip on the motherboard containing said password and flashed it with a paper clip as instructed. This involved a moderate amount of dismantlement and a painful period of reading chip IDs. Once flashed we were able to boot the installed XP then a more useful knoppix CD for the purposes of investigation. Machine works fine, though the fan is both loud and often on. Salient points on HD (which was not obviously not encrypted):

• Previous owner a female lawyer. Evidence of prolongued job search, wedding plans, details.
• Lots of evidence of shopping on Amazon for offspring related products. Also lots of handbag shopping.
• A bunch of pics scanned in with a Kodak Film Scanner, some more pics documenting arrival of previously mentioned offspring.
• 195 MP3s, mixed artists.
• 696 iTunes, the major contributing artists being:

      311 Compilations
      119 Dave Matthews Band
       62 The Beatles
       28 Pearl Jam
       25 Led Zeppelin
       18 U2
       16 James Taylor
       14 Weezer
       14 Dave Matthews
       13 Alanis Morissette
       12 Billy Joel
       11 Sarah McLachlan
        9 Janet Jackson
        8 Metallica
        8 Jessica Simpson
        8 Fiona Apple
        7 TLC
        7 Phish
        7 Mariah Carey
        6 Vanessa Carlton 

• TurboTax and stuff.