If the entire scandal was percipitated by Bezek (the reigning ILEC/MaBell of Israel). Bezek was complacent about the coming of the cell phone in the early '90s and was so late to the game that it's practically a non-player.
To the contrary, Pele-Phone trademark name actually became Israeli "xerox" - every cell phone is called a "pelephone" in the vernacular. So if Bezek wanted to hurt the ungrateful competitors' market share, the trojan scandal would do nicely.
My rates are - $200 for a full spyware de-infestation or setting up a new machine. Full wipe/reinstall is a bit more expensive - I price it according to the amount of extra software that they need.
For friends, however, it's different - male friends generally supply a bottle of chilled vodka and some Chinese take-out; female friends often end up staying overnight (and I even cook them breakfast):-)
A couple lessons learned: The DSL connection is shared among 4 apartments, plus my own. Instead of sharing out the bill into monthly payments, I ask the neighbors to pay the entire bill in the round-robin fashion - i.e. they only have to do it once every 5 months.
I operate on an honor system, with a wide-open network. If I notice a new MAC address in the logs (ok, a script does it for me) for more then a week, the next time its user will be presented with a friendly page asking to contribute to the coop and an email address to communicate to me. If no email ensues for a week but the user keeps logging in, the MAC address gets shut off.
This arrangement reasonably handles visitors and temporary users, but restricts freeriding (I've only had to shut off a user once - and then he joined the co-op and now pays his bill on time)
Also, make sure you firewall your private network from the wireless network, and the wireless network from the outside world. People bring in virus-infested laptops onto my wireless net all the time; one NetSky infection was enough for me to go get a second firewall.
Finally, regarding 7am calls to fix the network: all network equipment sits on a UPS and is connected to a little gizmo I picked up on SmartHome.com that lets me turn things on and off from a touch-tone phone. Now if somebody complains of an outage (90% of the time - due to hung DSL modem or primary router - fixed by rebooting), I simply reboot the entire set with my phone and later ping-check it.
I use commodity off-the-shelf routers (Linksys) and access points (D-Link Range Extenders); they are reliable if you don't let them overheat. I usually keep at least 1 spare unit of each kind for a quick replacement (I got 10 D-Links at a fire-sale price, so I'm set for a long long time).
Result: I have a virtually no-headache setup. No moving parts (logs are checked remotely by a linux box), no expensive hardware. I get 4-5 incidents of downtime per year, tops - and most are fixed before I even get a phone call from a user.
What if each of us goes to Tattered Cover and orders a book on pot growing (admit it, you want one anyway!:-) - we'll swamp the Feds with thousands of false leads and give the bookstore some cash for legal expenses.
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If the entire scandal was percipitated by Bezek (the reigning ILEC/MaBell of Israel). Bezek was complacent about the coming of the cell phone in the early '90s and was so late to the game that it's practically a non-player.
To the contrary, Pele-Phone trademark name actually became Israeli "xerox" - every cell phone is called a "pelephone" in the vernacular. So if Bezek wanted to hurt the ungrateful competitors' market share, the trojan scandal would do nicely.
My rates are - $200 for a full spyware de-infestation or setting up a new machine. Full wipe/reinstall is a bit more expensive - I price it according to the amount of extra software that they need.
:-)
For friends, however, it's different - male friends generally supply a bottle of chilled vodka and some Chinese take-out; female friends often end up staying overnight (and I even cook them breakfast)
A couple lessons learned:
The DSL connection is shared among 4 apartments, plus my own. Instead of sharing out the bill into monthly payments, I ask the neighbors to pay the entire bill in the round-robin fashion - i.e. they only have to do it once every 5 months.
I operate on an honor system, with a wide-open network. If I notice a new MAC address in the logs (ok, a script does it for me) for more then a week, the next time its user will be presented with a friendly page asking to contribute to the coop and an email address to communicate to me. If no email ensues for a week but the user keeps logging in, the MAC address gets shut off.
This arrangement reasonably handles visitors and temporary users, but restricts freeriding (I've only had to shut off a user once - and then he joined the co-op and now pays his bill on time)
Also, make sure you firewall your private network from the wireless network, and the wireless network from the outside world. People bring in virus-infested laptops onto my wireless net all the time; one NetSky infection was enough for me to go get a second firewall.
Finally, regarding 7am calls to fix the network: all network equipment sits on a UPS and is connected to a little gizmo I picked up on SmartHome.com that lets me turn things on and off from a touch-tone phone. Now if somebody complains of an outage (90% of the time - due to hung DSL modem or primary router - fixed by rebooting), I simply reboot the entire set with my phone and later ping-check it.
I use commodity off-the-shelf routers (Linksys) and access points (D-Link Range Extenders); they are reliable if you don't let them overheat. I usually keep at least 1 spare unit of each kind for a quick replacement (I got 10 D-Links at a fire-sale price, so I'm set for a long long time).
Result: I have a virtually no-headache setup. No moving parts (logs are checked remotely by a linux box), no expensive hardware. I get 4-5 incidents of downtime per year, tops - and most are fixed before I even get a phone call from a user.
What if each of us goes to Tattered Cover and orders a book on pot growing (admit it, you want one anyway! :-) - we'll swamp the Feds with thousands of false leads and give the bookstore some cash for legal expenses.