[Liverpool] Software freedom (problems at the University)

[Tim Dobson]

Dave Love wrote:
> Vladimir <vladimir.jakubovskij at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> But I want to teach them a lesson.
>> I need a laptop of any sort for a couple of days - to change the mac addr so it matches the
>> hw addr of my macbook, to walk in there, register, close the lid of the Linux laptop,
>> open the macbook, and say - Hello, you've been framed :D
> 
> You might be more careful what you say in public, no matter how stupid
> you think people in Computing Services and their rules are -- just a
> suggestion.  Merely annoying your BOFH is rarely a good idea, let alone
> posting something like that potentially in front of them, and I assure
> you they don't need lessons on MAC addresses.  If nothing else, consider
> that this sort of thing (archived) may not give a good impression of the
> group, and doesn't help any effort to improve support for non-Windows
> users in the university in case everyone is tarred with the same brush.

+1