I would put money on the fact that you're not paying for Windows XP or Office. You're just paying for the CDs.
My [former] college did this. They even told us that through tuition and other fees that we had already paid for it, they just were forcing us to cough up some more money for CD duplication. Copy of them telling us we already own it
I tested this "you already own it" theory by ripping the CD's and distributing them on the internal network via SMB
Not too long after I got a nasty e-mail from des Führer of the network.
Licensing will never cease to amaze me. "So I have a license to it, I can install it and use it." "Yes." "Can I have it?" "You have to buy the CD" "But you already said that I have the license." "That's correct" "So why can't I..."
Still, XP does boot and shut down fast. That's something worth paying for and I wish Apple would follow.
Hrm. I've never noticed this problem of "booting" or "shutting down." My OS X machine has an uptime of a while. Usually always has an uptime of the number of days since the last update that requried a reboot.
Our school also uses Aramark for the food services. We have the most difficult encryption technique available to protect our meal plans: BarCode.
I use this legitimately. I'm too cheap to buy a replacement ID card and our printers are pretty good. So I made a 1200 dpi ID card in photoshop with a downloaded barcode font. When I 'lose' my ID I just print up a new sheet and put them in my desk. The 16 year old local is too busy to notice anything other than the beep. Most other ID's are already broken in half so when I fold mine over it looks completely legit.
You want to know what data is in that bar code? Our student ID number. The number that's printed and put on all of our laptops. It's even put online so you can find anyone's ID with out even leaving your computer.
Easiest way to free meals:
1) Find a freshmen that is on the required 18 meal plan.
2) Cross reference that with those that don't have class until 10 or so. (i.e. they don't go to breakfast).
3) Change the barcode in yours to match his (but keep all other outward appearances the same).
4) Free meals.
I'm going up in front of a judicial review board for a small prank I pulled. After the whole Fake CNN news generator, our school set out a public e-mail to everyone saying that the Olson Twins were not going to come to my college. Me and my roomates thought it would be funny if "they" sent out an e-mail saying that it wasn't a fake.
So I went thought the trouble of photoshopping the Olson twins on campus. Then I made up a short reply, "We're sorry about our previous e-mail. We're proud to say that the Olson twins are going to be joining us for the class of 2007."
I found the MAC address of an institute computer (Only.institute. computers cand send out mass e-mails to all students) and used a fake e-mail program to send it from the same person that sent us the first e-mail.
Well it didn't go through. (COMPRESS YOUR JPG's) and I got called in for it, right now I'm pending the review board decision.
At the same time in an unrelated matter my roomates and I went and talked to the head of housing about a guy that wanted to move into our suite that liked to drink. Directly from the head of housing: "Oh, we don't care if you have alcohol in the building, as long as we don't see it." First off only probably 10 people in my dorm are over 21, Second this school advertises themselves as a DRY campus to high schoolers.
I pulled a prank that hurt no one and didn't actually get pulled and I'm up to get kicked out of school. But if you're drunk and underage on campus who cares?
Moral of the story: we need to get everyone to crack/hack. If it's the majority of the public then it'll start getting over looked, you can't put everyone away for 100 years can you? If we can get more websites hacked than people murdered then the punishment will go down.
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I would put money on the fact that you're not paying for Windows XP or Office. You're just paying for the CDs.
My [former] college did this. They even told us that through tuition and other fees that we had already paid for it, they just were forcing us to cough up some more money for CD duplication. Copy of them telling us we already own it
I tested this "you already own it" theory by ripping the CD's and distributing them on the internal network via SMB
Not too long after I got a nasty e-mail from des Führer of the network.
Licensing will never cease to amaze me. "So I have a license to it, I can install it and use it." "Yes." "Can I have it?" "You have to buy the CD" "But you already said that I have the license." "That's correct" "So why can't I..."
Still, XP does boot and shut down fast. That's something worth paying for and I wish Apple would follow.
Hrm. I've never noticed this problem of "booting" or "shutting down." My OS X machine has an uptime of a while. Usually always has an uptime of the number of days since the last update that requried a reboot.
Yes. Lets vote Alex Chiu govenor
http://home.attbi.com/~dwedit/flash/jamezbond.swf
(Thanks, I finally get this reference)
Our school also uses Aramark for the food services. We have the most difficult encryption technique available to protect our meal plans: BarCode. I use this legitimately. I'm too cheap to buy a replacement ID card and our printers are pretty good. So I made a 1200 dpi ID card in photoshop with a downloaded barcode font. When I 'lose' my ID I just print up a new sheet and put them in my desk. The 16 year old local is too busy to notice anything other than the beep. Most other ID's are already broken in half so when I fold mine over it looks completely legit. You want to know what data is in that bar code? Our student ID number. The number that's printed and put on all of our laptops. It's even put online so you can find anyone's ID with out even leaving your computer. Easiest way to free meals: 1) Find a freshmen that is on the required 18 meal plan. 2) Cross reference that with those that don't have class until 10 or so. (i.e. they don't go to breakfast). 3) Change the barcode in yours to match his (but keep all other outward appearances the same). 4) Free meals.
I'm going up in front of a judicial review board for a small prank I pulled. After the whole Fake CNN news generator, our school set out a public e-mail to everyone saying that the Olson Twins were not going to come to my college. Me and my roomates thought it would be funny if "they" sent out an e-mail saying that it wasn't a fake. So I went thought the trouble of photoshopping the Olson twins on campus. Then I made up a short reply, "We're sorry about our previous e-mail. We're proud to say that the Olson twins are going to be joining us for the class of 2007." I found the MAC address of an institute computer (Only .institute. computers cand send out mass e-mails to all students) and used a fake e-mail program to send it from the same person that sent us the first e-mail.
Well it didn't go through. (COMPRESS YOUR JPG's) and I got called in for it, right now I'm pending the review board decision.
At the same time in an unrelated matter my roomates and I went and talked to the head of housing about a guy that wanted to move into our suite that liked to drink. Directly from the head of housing: "Oh, we don't care if you have alcohol in the building, as long as we don't see it." First off only probably 10 people in my dorm are over 21, Second this school advertises themselves as a DRY campus to high schoolers.
I pulled a prank that hurt no one and didn't actually get pulled and I'm up to get kicked out of school. But if you're drunk and underage on campus who cares?
Moral of the story: we need to get everyone to crack/hack. If it's the majority of the public then it'll start getting over looked, you can't put everyone away for 100 years can you? If we can get more websites hacked than people murdered then the punishment will go down.