> It wasn't me, just a friend of mine who posted on his own without
> any instigation on my part. I'm not responsible for the posts
> my friends make. As whooo / Cliff pointed out,
> "advocates are banned at RSC"
*polite applause*
*polite applause*
He has nothing to admit, it was my fault, sorry for even
starting this thread, but you guys just aren't going to
let this go, are you?
>>>What is going on?
>>Hi Jeff.
> It wasn't me, just a friend of mine who posted on his own without
> any instigation on my part. I'm not responsible for the posts
> my friends make. As whooo / Cliff pointed out,
> "advocates are banned at RSC"
That's not possible, everyone here is assuming abbakus is me
already.
> That's not possible, everyone here is assuming abbakus is me
> already.
What good would it do? Do you think anyone would honestly change
their minds? I'm 53 years old, I don't have that many family members
left and none of them uses RAS, so how about I swear on Whooo's
life that I didn't post here or at RSC as abbakus instead? Whooo,
if you're still alive after this, please post and let us know.
Also note that when I stated that I thought that RSC (Dan) was
accusing me of creating new accounts that were instabanned at
RSC, Sirocco explained that I shouldn't have assumed it was me.
Abbakus isn't just one person. The original owner of the persona
Abbakus released it for use with Need For Speed 4 and 5, during
the final months before EA shut down the online servers. EA had
already shut down the creation of any new accounts, so a few spare
game personas were dontated to the public via needforbetterspeed,
and racerplanet forum sites, so that new players could play online
for the last few months before the EAOR shutdown. Each of these had
corresponding hotmail account (an EA requirement). The passwords for
these EA and hotmail accounts were made public in these forums, and a
lot of people have used them since then. Some of my friends still use
abbakus, because it's very old and not associated with any one person
any more. Like many members here, they use a false name and false
email account. Note that I don't do this.
I was at my friends place last Saturday, technically, into the
early morning hours of Sunday (doing FPS games via LAN), and when
taking breaks, I did webmail, forum, and newsgroups. I've
occasionally made posts from his place, which could explain some
header matches, but if you check my posts, you will see that almost
all of them were made with my own ip's.
In spite of what some are claiming, a person can't change their
ip through Cox Cable, without doing something like replacing the
cable modem (a different MAC) and even then you may end up
getting the same ip, as the cable modem's software, including
control, speed, and ip addressing are all downloaded by Cox Cable
into a person's cable modem.
If anyone here honestly thinks otherwise, then explain how it could
be done.
Whooo / Cliff, if the folks at RSC didn't know you, you probably
would have been banned also for asking about their warning policy,
and accused of being me or a co-conspirator. As it is, they closed
your thread, and deleted the one made back in 2002 that you linked
to.
Anyway, I'm done with this thread. I didn't start it, and shouldn't
have even got invovled. My friend apologied, but he did nothing
wrong, either here or at RSC, and yet now I'm getting hassled
for it.
> We'll see about that, testing my 2nd ip address with this email.
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Corporation - helping America into the New World...
To those of us who have an ignore filter on author or subject he was
long ago.
It's a new technology called a phone. Friends use this to communicate
with each other. I never claimed that I didn't know "abbakus", or
that he wasn't a friend of mine or as RSC must think, an "advacate"
to be banned as described by whooo / Cliff. All of his posts are
still there at RSC; do you see any post he made that violated the
rules of RSC?
> You're only making it worse for yourself, you know!
RAS: "Ooooh!..."
Interesting. 400 people share two IP addresses? Does that mean if 2 of
those people are already online, the other 398 must wait their turn?
Easy, dynamic versus static IP addresses. Static IP addresses don't change
and dynamic do. Also, people are able to change a MAC without changing any
hardware. ;)
> Interesting. 400 people share two IP addresses? Does that mean if 2 of
> those people are already online, the other 398 must wait their turn?
However, with a firewall, thousands of people appear to share a single
ip. For example, 57.68.138.5, from SITA-Societe Internationale de
Telecommunications Aeronautiques, a company in France. This is the
firewall ip that we use at work. Every employee at my company and
several other companies will appear to be using this same ip. With this
type of setup, internal ip's of the form 10.xx.xx.xx are used, but all
are mapped to the same external ip 57.68.138.5.
Cox Cable offers a simlar firewall service, but it's mostly used for
commercial sites, similar to my company.
Are you claiming that a person can change the MAC of a cable modem
without changing any hardware? I'm not aware of any ethernet devices
that let you change the MAC, as this would create a potential collision
with another device. I have a Toshiba PCX2600, are you claiming there's
a hack to change the MAC of this cable modem?
If you replace the NIC or motherboard getting a new MAC there, it
doesn't change your ip at Cox, since it's assigned by the software
downloaded by Cox Cable into your cable modem. Your ip probably changes
if you replace the cable modem, but this requires calling into Cox,
giving them your new Cable Modem's MAC, so they can download the
controlling software into it.
Testing IP change....