Pissed Off Puppy

[Snoopy]

Sorry to arrive so late in the day. I have spent most of last evening and all of the morning since 6am trying to resolve my internet connectivity "issues". I have now un-installed the wireless net from the entire house (much moaning from the family) and have reinstalled on this PC only a dial up broadband connection.

So why pissed off? 1) because a man was here yesterday to resolve these and other problems and everything worked fine until an hour after he left when it all just failed. 2) because having located all the necessary discs etc to un-install one and re-install t'other I could not make it work because I HAD LOST THE PIECE OF PAPER WITH THE FVCKING USER NAME AND PASSWORD ON IT!

I have been searching desks, filing cabinets and shelves for this vital information whilst the PC has sat and smirked at me with a message saying "Access denied ... Wrong password or user name"

Eventually I swallowed my pride and begged my Internet provider to disclose the vital information to me ... which they did without a single security check on who I was  But at least it enabled me to best this bloody machine I shall take up the issue of their lack of security later.


I hate computers in all their incarnations and even more I will kill the next youthful geek who tells me he knows how to solve my problems. He does not! He only thinks he does!!!

[Nick]

My sympathies. Computer geeks are usually useless. I have abandoned Wireless thingumabob here - bastard never worked for me at all.

[Barman]

Poor you... anything we can do to help?

[Bar Wench]

 

Don't get too worked up. 

[Snoopy]

My geek is spending the weekend in Gloucester ~ which is why he is not hanging from his thumbs in my office right now. Should you happen across him forget the brakes and go straight for the accelerator.
He was supposed to be mending something else altogether and he spotted that my little internal network could be "piggy backed" by someone from outside ~ if they had the right equipment ~ as my "security measures" were, he claimed, insufficient. Just how many geeks are driving round North Wales with that equipment hoping to find an insecure net I don't know.
Anyway he said "I can fix that for you as well.... no cost" and tapped away at the keyboard for five minutes before sitting back looking satisfied ... almost post orgasmic, as they do. "There you go" he said "No-one will get into it now" ~ He was right ... even I could not get into it.

Someone get me a large ashtray full of Bishops Finger if you will ... in fact make it two. 

[Barman]

My geek is spending the weekend in Gloucester ~ which is why he is not hanging from his thumbs in my office right now. Should you happen across him forget the brakes and go straight for the accelerator.
He was supposed to be mending something else altogether and he spotted that my little internal network could be "piggy backed" by someone from outside ~ if they had the right equipment ~ as my "security measures" were, he claimed, insufficient. Just how many geeks are driving round North Wales with that equipment hoping to find an insecure net I don't know.
Anyway he said "I can fix that for you as well.... no cost" and tapped away at the keyboard for five minutes before sitting back looking satisfied ... almost post orgasmic, as they do. "There you go" he said "No-one will get into it now" ~ He was right ... even I could not get into it.

Someone get me a large ashtray full of Bishops Finger if you will ... in fact make it two. 

I can talk you through it all if you like?

[Miss Demeanour]

Can you sort mine as well -

I still haven't sorted myself out so I can work from home. 

[Barman]

Can you sort mine as well -

I still haven't sorted myself out so I can work from home. 

Of course... 

[Snoopy]

Thanks for the offer but he is due back on Monday and is going to be here all day .... in fact may even stay for longer........... Under the patio!

[Barman]

Thanks for the offer but he is due back on Monday and is going to be here all day .... in fact may even stay for longer........... Under the patio!

Okay... if he gives you any bullshite let me know...

[The Moan Ranger]

My sympathies. Computer geeks are usually useless. I have abandoned Wireless thingumabob here - bastard never worked for me at all.

That's hardly suprising with you though, Nick, is it !  

[Darwins Selection]

Well now we know where Nick's porn site connection came from. 

[Sour Puss]

Just how many geeks are driving round North Wales with that equipment hoping to find an insecure net I don't know.

2 that I know of not that long ago... both laptops equipped to pick up any stray unprotected wi-fi signals. Proven time and time again by sitting outside different friends houses and using their connections.         

 
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[Snoopy]

So ~ is this an admission of what the courts have degreed is theft eh? 

[Misunderstood]

So ~ is this an admission of what the courts have degreed is theft eh? 

It is not theft if the resource is used with the owner's consent.

As to other 'unknown' networks the reason is usually to make the network owners aware of what is happening, in other instances the computer has automatically logged onto an unsecured network without bothering to mention it.

The commission of a crime requires 'Mens Rea' or motive or intent or at least knowledge of the illegal event.

Most people that have unsecured wireless networks are completely unaware of the possibility that they are being broadcast openly to the world at large.

If you doubt what I say, look up 'warchalking'


It has been argued that people that willfully deploy unsecured networks are in breach of the confidentiality clauses of their operating systems and other software used to support the network and the contents of various sites on the internet that have confidential access clauses in place.  It also displays willful neglect in allowing free access to unregistered users access to the internet and allied resources that are able to freely invoke and distribute malicious or destructive code onto the internet AND unaccountable access for terrorist or other nefarious uses.

If in doubt, consult the small print of your Internet providers confidentiality clauses that you agree to to access the internet.