Concur. If it ever got legalistic where I work, lots less would get done. Amazing how many people don't grasp that--(sweeping generalization alert) many of whom seem to be owners of small business and those employed as desktop support or network administrators just about anywhere.
And just remember, admins: if you're Harry Hardass on your users, you'd better be ready to get called out by management for every little thing that goes wrong with the PC/network environment, because they'll be raising hell over your head when things break if (because?) you've locked them down and condescended to them. I mean, why should they cut you any slack when "your" network is stopping them from getting work done?
Whatever, Davie. What it amounts to is that you were laid bare and made to look quite stupid, and just had to have the last word. Since I have better things to do than answer every lame post of yours, I'll let you have the last word, and all its value.
You again. The one that's so pathetic he has to bring up other threads because he apparently feels pretty beaten and stupid about what he said in the previous ones that he resorts to namecalling. Dingbat, indeed.
I'm not one either, but I wouldn't think it'd be entrapment until an undercover cop said to the thief "Hey, buddy--check out the unlocked Vette with the keys in the ignition!"
Otherwise, while it might be temptation, it ain't entrapment.
Of course it's outrageous and egregious! But then, taking legal advice about software licensing issues from Microsoft is like taking airline safety advice from Osama bin Laden.
You didn't mention that you represented a company. Still, I hope you left since they weren't willing to back you for being right. Caving as a corporation is just as bad as caving as a man.
Or you could have strapped a pair on, moved any assets out of your own name, called their bluff, and told them to bring it on. The worst that would have happened is that they would win, you'd laugh at the judgement, and file Chapter 7.
Chances are, they were just sabre rattling anyway and would have left you alone. But instead, you caved. And you, like so many others, have helped erode free speech for ordinary people.
Generally, umbrella policies cost between $200 to $350 for $1 million of additional liability protection.
I'm savoring the thought of this prick finding out he filed suit against a guy who has a $1MM liability umbrella, and that his insurance company has broken out the O.J. defense team and mentioned a countersuit (insurance companies don't take kindly to extortionists).
Good news--I got an image from HotLine yesterday that burned and installed successfully. If you're interested in this, go ahead and reply here and we can work out a way to get it to you (without compromising either of our identities, of course).
True, but Denning wanted key escrow. That's enough in my opinion for her and her minions to be taken to the Hague and tried for crimes against humanity.
Thanks--I appreciate the commiseration. Actually, I found this image on a Carracho server. (The only one I saw on the donkey was French.) It does appear to be intact. After creating a 1GB bootable partition, copying the files there, working some mad voodoo with the 9.1 System Folder, and setting that disk startable, I got Darwin to boot. However, copying the files on the CD to the HFS+ partition apparently doesn't preserve the symlinks on the CD--the install dies when attempting to read/etc/master.password and drops to a zsh shell.
Copying the directories the symlinks refer to manually (tmp, etc, and var) gets the installation farther, but then it dies hard, and restarts.
But I have had fun, and am now more determined than ever to get this to work!
I have lots of PC stuff, and one iMac. The PC's have several CDR's. The iMac has zero CDR's.
I want to install OSX. (Please, save your "Go to CompUSA you cheap bastard" and "piracy is killing the Mac" rants"--if you had any hope of convincing me, I wouldn't be posting here.)
I have a toast image of OSX. I have Nero for the PC.
Thoughts:
I should be able to point Nero at this image, tell it it's HFS, burn to CDR, and be a happy copyright infringer. In theory. In actuality, I get a disk image that the iMac happily reads, and the PC happily reads, but which does not boot. (Attempting to start the installer from OS 9 results in an "unable to select CD as system disk" error 2.)
Any constructive suggestions that don't involve the nether regions of my anatomy or purchasing the program are appreciated.
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And just remember, admins: if you're Harry Hardass on your users, you'd better be ready to get called out by management for every little thing that goes wrong with the PC/network environment, because they'll be raising hell over your head when things break if (because?) you've locked them down and condescended to them. I mean, why should they cut you any slack when "your" network is stopping them from getting work done?
And with a, say, $500 core charge, they could get quite a few of those non "rights"-managed PC's off the streets.
OK, I apologize. It wasn't meant to be personal.
More like obligated to prevent people from wasting time or moderator points on trolls.
Whatever, Davie. What it amounts to is that you were laid bare and made to look quite stupid, and just had to have the last word. Since I have better things to do than answer every lame post of yours, I'll let you have the last word, and all its value.
You again. The one that's so pathetic he has to bring up other threads because he apparently feels pretty beaten and stupid about what he said in the previous ones that he resorts to namecalling. Dingbat, indeed.
I'm finally going to get to join the mile-high club!
Otherwise, while it might be temptation, it ain't entrapment.
Of course it's outrageous and egregious! But then, taking legal advice about software licensing issues from Microsoft is like taking airline safety advice from Osama bin Laden.
You didn't mention that you represented a company. Still, I hope you left since they weren't willing to back you for being right. Caving as a corporation is just as bad as caving as a man.
Chances are, they were just sabre rattling anyway and would have left you alone. But instead, you caved. And you, like so many others, have helped erode free speech for ordinary people.
I'm savoring the thought of this prick finding out he filed suit against a guy who has a $1MM liability umbrella, and that his insurance company has broken out the O.J. defense team and mentioned a countersuit (insurance companies don't take kindly to extortionists).
Good news--I got an image from HotLine yesterday that burned and installed successfully. If you're interested in this, go ahead and reply here and we can work out a way to get it to you (without compromising either of our identities, of course).
True, but Denning wanted key escrow. That's enough in my opinion for her and her minions to be taken to the Hague and tried for crimes against humanity.
You make a good point that I've made often when the need to burn karma in an Apple story came on.
Copying the directories the symlinks refer to manually (tmp, etc, and var) gets the installation farther, but then it dies hard, and restarts.
But I have had fun, and am now more determined than ever to get this to work!
I have lots of PC stuff, and one iMac. The PC's have several CDR's. The iMac has zero CDR's.
I want to install OSX. (Please, save your "Go to CompUSA you cheap bastard" and "piracy is killing the Mac" rants"--if you had any hope of convincing me, I wouldn't be posting here.)
I have a toast image of OSX. I have Nero for the PC.
Thoughts:
I should be able to point Nero at this image, tell it it's HFS, burn to CDR, and be a happy copyright infringer. In theory. In actuality, I get a disk image that the iMac happily reads, and the PC happily reads, but which does not boot. (Attempting to start the installer from OS 9 results in an "unable to select CD as system disk" error 2.)
Any constructive suggestions that don't involve the nether regions of my anatomy or purchasing the program are appreciated.