Friday, December 30, 2005

A real concern

In keeping with this theme of what's wrong with this computer, my question is why do people download music onto the lab computers in the first place? What are they going to do with the music? I guess they can put it on their iPods or something, but if they're just downloading music willy-nilly, and not covering their tracks, what's the point? Even covering their tracks is difficult and somewhat pointless because you have to LOG IN to use the computers. Everything you do can be written to a log file that the sysadmins read and they can come down on you like a ton of burning tires. And, not to get too technical, but even the downloading software itself (Napster, Grokster, Kazaa, etc) generates certain types of traffic on the network that is easily recognizable to a trained network admin. When they see this type of activity, they can stop it before it really gets going. I just don't understand it. It just isn't a good thing to go messing with the University computers. Those machines are paid for by state funds and charitable donations from people and therefore should be treated with respect. Any of you who have been on missions can understand this concept.

Other than that, I think the picture looks really funny with everything named Desktop.

Ta ta!