You see, Tim, as the person who used to admin a network myself, I do understand the<br>magic of the crate of beer. The problem here is that after I will get my linux laptop<br>connected, the rest is not about me and the BOFH. It's about <i>policy</i>. That policy they<br>
seem use as a magic get-out wand. As soon as they are pointed to what is not right<br>in their actions they shout <i>policy</i>! So I can't buy a crate of beer to the policy, do I?<br>The problem is that there's no access to see what this policy is. Maybe Dave could<br>
enlighten me on this matter? And seeing the TOS would be nice too. As for them - <br>I think that the TOS are simply non-existant. What I know for sure is that refusing<br>to connect my Linux system on the basis that it is on the hardware they don't like<br>
or that it had an operating system of a wrong type in the past violates my student rights,<br>as their wages are paid from my pocket.<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/18 Tim Dobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@tdobson.net">lists@tdobson.net</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Dave Love wrote:<br>
> Vladimir <<a href="mailto:vladimir.jakubovskij@gmail.com">vladimir.jakubovskij@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
><br>
>> But I want to teach them a lesson.<br>
>> I need a laptop of any sort for a couple of days - to change the mac addr so it matches the<br>
>> hw addr of my macbook, to walk in there, register, close the lid of the Linux laptop,<br>
>> open the macbook, and say - Hello, you've been framed :D<br>
><br>
> You might be more careful what you say in public, no matter how stupid<br>
> you think people in Computing Services and their rules are -- just a<br>
> suggestion. Merely annoying your BOFH is rarely a good idea, let alone<br>
> posting something like that potentially in front of them, and I assure<br>
> you they don't need lessons on MAC addresses. If nothing else, consider<br>
> that this sort of thing (archived) may not give a good impression of the<br>
> group, and doesn't help any effort to improve support for non-Windows<br>
> users in the university in case everyone is tarred with the same brush.<br>
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