>> Moral of the story, US WEST bad... NTPRIME good. :-)
>Actually, moral is "Installing software without explicit permission bad."
Hehe...no comment.
>At least you didn't try to hide its presence as I had a user do with the
>Seti@home client, which he'd renamed so it showed up in the process list
>as an apparently legal process, and crontab'ed so it only ran during
>nights.
No, sure didn't try to hid my involvement...my name and email address were
right there in the INI file. :) No doubts in anyone's mind whodunnit. I like
to think that if I really *wanted* to be clever, I could hide it quite
well...but I guess I underestimated the reaction of US WEST. I figured
someone might run across it, running on so many machines, but I built those
machines...I made the master image for them all and used to be in charge of
doing the updates on them (and they called me a "hacker"...sheesh). I guess I
was used to getting away with making changes to their configuration that were
necessary...I just assumed it would be no big deal, but whoops!
>I was overridden by management on both suing for breach of contract, and
>reporting the incident to the police, apparently they felt the
>application he was installing was too important.
They felt Seti@Home was too important? Sheesh...well, takes all kinds. I
wish US WEST would have considered the contribution they could be making
towards number theory and distributed computing, but they were more concerned
about the possibility of this program crashing their machines... Anyone who
has ever worked for US WEST could attest that NTPRIME was probably the most
well behaved piece of software on those machines... :-)
Aaron
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