I, for one, used to live oncampus, and got tired of dealing with the apartment complex.
The problem is that the buildings are owned (some of them) by the university, but leased out to the complex, Waterview Park Apartments. I'm looking at my old copy of my lease, and it says "This lease contract is between you, the resident ____________ and us, the owner: Waterview Park".
I know that many of us had problems with the apartment complex and took them to the University. However, the university's take on it is that they don't control the buildings or the maintenance, and have no juristiction over them.
Their police department patrols them, and you can be subject to discipline for underage drinking in them, but their main take on it so far (at least they tell the students) that if you have a problem with something in the apartments than you should "take it to the leasing office". I, and many others, moved out of there because of this.
And, on the issue of wireless, I do remember 2.4Ghz phones being a huge problem, because everyone's parents bought them for their kids before they went. I'll bet if they started taking those away, there'd be a lot less issues. Also, it was common knowledge (for us engineering/CS majors there) that all you had to do was browse the network (i.e. browse in Network Neighborhood) and you could access all the unsecured boxes out there that were just broadcasting their info for all to see.
And, of course, you can take into effect that the #1 answer by their IR (Information Resources staff: http://www.utdallas.edu/IR is to either reboot it or use the computer lab. In fact, if you look at their FAQ, they have lots of detailed posts about Kung-Fu, but not too many on how to fix the wireless. Those of us who needed wireless help researched it ourselves and went through trial-and-error to get a solution.
WRONG.
All from the same computer:
1) tried it from the university pipe
2) tried it from a US-based cablemodem
3) ran it through a Jordan proxy
it came up just fine thru the Jordan proxy (font and all). If it could get the font and read it through the proxy, why not through a regular connection? Both US-based connections were unable to pull up even the main version of the website, while the proxy was able to pull it up. Ergo, something was blocking the 2 US pipes from going to the website. I was even checking my IP address using a website, just to verify that my IP was actually changing as I browsed using one source or another. I did this mainly as a confirmation of the info that some ppl believed that it was being blocked.
Therefore, being the student that I am, I conducted an experiment. I used the same computer, trying all within a 15-min timeline.
site: www.aljazeera.net
1) University internet
Checked IP, reported what the IP my machine was broadcasting. Tried to connect: no response. Tried to ping: no response
2) Cable modem
Checked IP, reported what the IP of my machine was. Tried to connect: no response. Tried to ping: no response
3) Jordan proxy
Reset my browser to go through a proxy in Jordan (80.90.161.202:80). Checked IP: confirmed that sites were reciving that address. Tried to connect: success, page loaded. Tried to ping: success.
Note that all of this was about 1:30am CST. Have you considered that you're being blocked? If you can't pull it up right now, then you're wrong.
Hmmm... I decided to see if it was true that the aljazeera.net was being blocked, so I first tried my university web service. It was a no-go. Next, I tried my roommate's cablemodem. Still blocked. Then, I went through German and British web proxies. Nope. Then I tried this proxy in Jordan (80.90.161.202:80). Finally, the website came up. I'm not able to get an english version, and I can't read it in arabic (www.aljazeera.net), so I'm translating it into Russian, which babelfish handles, and reading it that way (www.aljazeera.ru). Hope this helps.
As an EE major here at the wonderful school of UTD (Go fighting comets!), I checked my class selection, and it looks like they are teaching an Arts and Humanities class on Computer Game Design. The teacher is listed as STAFF, as they have a teacher that already does it and probably don't want students to choose this class over that one. (NOTE: This is the only class that looks even remotely like it may be it....)
AP -4370 COMPUTER GAME DEVELOPMENT 3 Hrs R
Call 13550 Sec 501 W 7-9:45PM JO 3.114 STAFF
Written Permission of Instructor Required
Call 972-883-4379
Call 13551 Sec 502 R 7-9:45PM JO 3.114 Dochtermann M
Written Permission of Instructor Required
So what are they going to list as their assets? All of those stolen MP3?
Technically, they're property of Napster since they got busted for posession of illegal materials (due to the fact that they were copyrighted.) Does that mean that they can sell them to pay back their creditors? And wouldn't that be the biggest blow to the RIAA (introducing all of those stolen MP3s to the market?) Although they were stored on other ppl's computers, they probably have some of them that were uploaded.
And even if they only sell the software and the servers, couldn't some overseas company buy it all up and then start Napster all over again, this time out of the RIAA's grubby little hands?
Didn't this kind of thing happen in James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies? So does that mean that a stealth boat will start a war between Afghanistan and the US?
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I, for one, used to live oncampus, and got tired of dealing with the apartment complex. The problem is that the buildings are owned (some of them) by the university, but leased out to the complex, Waterview Park Apartments. I'm looking at my old copy of my lease, and it says "This lease contract is between you, the resident ____________ and us, the owner: Waterview Park". I know that many of us had problems with the apartment complex and took them to the University. However, the university's take on it is that they don't control the buildings or the maintenance, and have no juristiction over them. Their police department patrols them, and you can be subject to discipline for underage drinking in them, but their main take on it so far (at least they tell the students) that if you have a problem with something in the apartments than you should "take it to the leasing office". I, and many others, moved out of there because of this. And, on the issue of wireless, I do remember 2.4Ghz phones being a huge problem, because everyone's parents bought them for their kids before they went. I'll bet if they started taking those away, there'd be a lot less issues. Also, it was common knowledge (for us engineering/CS majors there) that all you had to do was browse the network (i.e. browse in Network Neighborhood) and you could access all the unsecured boxes out there that were just broadcasting their info for all to see. And, of course, you can take into effect that the #1 answer by their IR (Information Resources staff: http://www.utdallas.edu/IR is to either reboot it or use the computer lab. In fact, if you look at their FAQ, they have lots of detailed posts about Kung-Fu, but not too many on how to fix the wireless. Those of us who needed wireless help researched it ourselves and went through trial-and-error to get a solution.
WRONG. All from the same computer: 1) tried it from the university pipe 2) tried it from a US-based cablemodem 3) ran it through a Jordan proxy it came up just fine thru the Jordan proxy (font and all). If it could get the font and read it through the proxy, why not through a regular connection? Both US-based connections were unable to pull up even the main version of the website, while the proxy was able to pull it up. Ergo, something was blocking the 2 US pipes from going to the website. I was even checking my IP address using a website, just to verify that my IP was actually changing as I browsed using one source or another. I did this mainly as a confirmation of the info that some ppl believed that it was being blocked. Therefore, being the student that I am, I conducted an experiment. I used the same computer, trying all within a 15-min timeline. site: www.aljazeera.net 1) University internet Checked IP, reported what the IP my machine was broadcasting. Tried to connect: no response. Tried to ping: no response 2) Cable modem Checked IP, reported what the IP of my machine was. Tried to connect: no response. Tried to ping: no response 3) Jordan proxy Reset my browser to go through a proxy in Jordan (80.90.161.202:80). Checked IP: confirmed that sites were reciving that address. Tried to connect: success, page loaded. Tried to ping: success. Note that all of this was about 1:30am CST. Have you considered that you're being blocked? If you can't pull it up right now, then you're wrong.
Hmmm... I decided to see if it was true that the aljazeera.net was being blocked, so I first tried my university web service. It was a no-go. Next, I tried my roommate's cablemodem. Still blocked. Then, I went through German and British web proxies. Nope. Then I tried this proxy in Jordan (80.90.161.202:80). Finally, the website came up. I'm not able to get an english version, and I can't read it in arabic (www.aljazeera.net), so I'm translating it into Russian, which babelfish handles, and reading it that way (www.aljazeera.ru). Hope this helps.
As an EE major here at the wonderful school of UTD (Go fighting comets!), I checked my class selection, and it looks like they are teaching an Arts and Humanities class on Computer Game Design. The teacher is listed as STAFF, as they have a teacher that already does it and probably don't want students to choose this class over that one. (NOTE: This is the only class that looks even remotely like it may be it....)
AP -4370 COMPUTER GAME DEVELOPMENT 3 Hrs R
Call 13550 Sec 501 W 7-9:45PM JO 3.114 STAFF
Written Permission of Instructor Required
Call 972-883-4379
Call 13551 Sec 502 R 7-9:45PM JO 3.114 Dochtermann M
Written Permission of Instructor Required
So what are they going to list as their assets? All of those stolen MP3?
Technically, they're property of Napster since they got busted for posession of illegal materials (due to the fact that they were copyrighted.) Does that mean that they can sell them to pay back their creditors? And wouldn't that be the biggest blow to the RIAA (introducing all of those stolen MP3s to the market?) Although they were stored on other ppl's computers, they probably have some of them that were uploaded.
And even if they only sell the software and the servers, couldn't some overseas company buy it all up and then start Napster all over again, this time out of the RIAA's grubby little hands?
Wondering I am......
Didn't this kind of thing happen in James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies? So does that mean that a stealth boat will start a war between Afghanistan and the US?