Well, the roomates gave me all kinds of hell a few weeks ago about our shared comcast cable connection... blaming their spyware issues on my load balancer and other network hardware rather than letting me sit down and work on their computers. Finally, before thanksgiving break, they demanded that I hand over my equipment so that they could try managing it themselves. Of course it worked perfectly... it ran off of all of my old configs (balancing profile between university lan and comcast cable, etc) and it was faster than ever because the campus was empty. They patted themselves on the back. Then when the guy who's name is on the account left for break, he unplugged all of the equipment and plugged my lan line into the modem, powercycled and locked his bedroom door behind him... leaving the modem waiting for a NULL mac adress (my line was plugged into a switch). I ended up having to throw power to the whole apartment to cycle that modem....
the punch line: Today my private comcast account got activated and I told them to fsck themselves, that I wasn't dealing with them anymore and that I deserved to have a connection free of their nonsense. They looked at me in horror. Apparantly since none of the roomates have jobs, they can't afford the connection, hbo and digital cable without me chipping in. Go me! I just fsked over my asshole roomates! P2P and manage that one dickwads!
cliffs:
[*]roomates loaded with spyware
[*]roomates blame it on my network design
[*]roomates commandeer and start messing with my uptime, really pissing me off
[*]I get my own connection, tell roomates where to put it
[*]roomates can not afford the connection w/o my stake and are now pwned
Update:
I came home to them screaming at me about some sort of contract we were all in together with Comcast. I asked him to show me where the contract was because I never even saw it, let alone signed it. Then the guy who's name's on the account started throwing around the word "oral contract..." something I made clear that was over when I said "fsck this sh!t" and he didn't object.... We sat down at Excel, I showed him some fuzzy math depicting the remainder of our contract and pointed out the figure that I thought was fair for me to pay (the television parts) and told him that that was including the cable modem, etc. Eventually I "caved in" and paid him what I thought was fair all along... about $40 for the rest of the year, in cash. He left thinking he got all of his money.... I let him go chuckling that now not only will he, personally, have to take the hit when he actually pays the bill with the roomates (something he prolly cant afford) and that I got a fair shake. :beer:
the punch line: Today my private comcast account got activated and I told them to fsck themselves, that I wasn't dealing with them anymore and that I deserved to have a connection free of their nonsense. They looked at me in horror. Apparantly since none of the roomates have jobs, they can't afford the connection, hbo and digital cable without me chipping in. Go me! I just fsked over my asshole roomates! P2P and manage that one dickwads!
cliffs:
[*]roomates loaded with spyware
[*]roomates blame it on my network design
[*]roomates commandeer and start messing with my uptime, really pissing me off
[*]I get my own connection, tell roomates where to put it
[*]roomates can not afford the connection w/o my stake and are now pwned
Update:
I came home to them screaming at me about some sort of contract we were all in together with Comcast. I asked him to show me where the contract was because I never even saw it, let alone signed it. Then the guy who's name's on the account started throwing around the word "oral contract..." something I made clear that was over when I said "fsck this sh!t" and he didn't object.... We sat down at Excel, I showed him some fuzzy math depicting the remainder of our contract and pointed out the figure that I thought was fair for me to pay (the television parts) and told him that that was including the cable modem, etc. Eventually I "caved in" and paid him what I thought was fair all along... about $40 for the rest of the year, in cash. He left thinking he got all of his money.... I let him go chuckling that now not only will he, personally, have to take the hit when he actually pays the bill with the roomates (something he prolly cant afford) and that I got a fair shake. :beer:
