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Hammer time from Government: Online Downloads Now Illegal

Seeing how New Zealand has been plagued with earthquakes, failing economy and a government which operate under a left agenda.

Last Thursday the decision has been made that a “emergency” decision must be taken against illegal downloading.
This new law was passed at 9PM with a day notice.

The previous government has tried this but on top of the users standing in resistance even ISPs joined in.

Thank you Katrina Shanks:

The same night the law was passed Hauraki presenters described her as someone that should not be allowed to drive or have direct contact with normal everyday public due to being thick as pig $(*&.
Seems they hit the nail on the head!

And thank you thick Tony Eaton, and an extended thank you Jonathan Young, we couldn’t have done it without you:
3News

Scum, Scum, Scum – from their back teeth to their BUM!

Please read on (TVNZ Coverage):

Praise for govt’s copyright abusers plan

Published: 7:57AM Thursday December 17, 2009 Source: ONE News

o Copyright abusers to get three warnings

Internet New Zealand wants people to stop their illegal downloading from the internet before being caught.

The government’s receiving praise from the online community for clamping down on illegal downloading, introducing legislation next year, for a three-step infringement notice system.

In the three stage warning notice approach, ISPs will issue three notices to those they feel are involved in illegal downloads, before action is taken.

After three such notices have been issued, the victim can then seek a fine of up to $15,000.

Internet New Zealand policy director Jordan Carter says it’s a better idea than the previous law that was put in place by the last government

He says that’s because it sets up a process around who has to send the notices and the responses people have to make.

Carter says the move appears to be about educating people rather than trying to catch them out and hopes the new move works.

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Remotely log off a user

If you like every other sysadmin have users that simply forget to log-off, throw the following in a batch script.
This script will need to run with admin rights.

 

 

echo off
cls
echo What is the machine name?
set /p server=
quser /server:%server%
set /p session=
logoff %session% /server:%server%
quser /server:%server%

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Off the road

Off the road – Following the Christchurch Earthquake, the Escudo got full of sand and silt. No water available to wash it called for some offroading at the closest river.
No more squeaks, crunches and the dampers work pretty well too 🙂



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Boat Restore: Part 1

To cut a pretty long story short, I have purchased a boat in as-is condition.

Note-worthy issues that were pre-existing were:

  1. Engine – unknown condition, sorry I havent had the chance to document this, however, we’ll just say the compression was not the best upon purchase, impeller gone, and the carbie was in dire need of some looking after and tuning.
  2. Hull – had not been maintained in what seemed like forever, but although not pressing for repair I managed to drop it and turned a winter project into summer one (instead of fishing).

The build of this project will not focus on the engine  but the latter.

So here, here we are..a boat that’s been dropped from about 2 meters high (off my Suzuki Tracker) and along with the damages to the car I also managed to do a few numbers on the boat too.

Bad pic but here she is.

This is what the project will entail what the picture below shows plus the following:

  • Filling both front and rear hulls with expandable foam.
  • Budget paint job outside and inside the boat. Black/White + “Homer”  in Yellow.
  • Putting a box under the chair (for anchor and such).
Red:Damage Black:Enhancement

Below are the two damaged hulls:

Front – note how the damage that would make the boat non-water-tight.

Front

Rear – the seat has come unstuck and there is no engine support:

Rear cleared off
Rear

 

I started with the rear. Removal of the “seat was done with two large flat-head screwdrivers. The picture also shows the area grinded back.

The seat required a bit of work to clear away the old resin (about 3 hours actually – for only one seat). Note the damage to the fiber.

For this repair, I just bought a $50 Fiberglass repair kit. This came with the catalyst and cleaner. There was 500ml of Polyester – about right to get the job done.
Advise before beginning from seasoned experts:

  • Mix – measure 5 times Mix once. Application temperature will affect the mount of catalyst you will be needing.
    My resin required a %2 mix – Apparently! The factory specifications hardened the mix in 2 minutes. I used % 0.35 mix.
    Try a small quantity first then adjust accordingly.
    If the mix is too weak (not enough catalyst it will not harden. Too strong – unusable.
  • Use hot air to start reaction if your mix is too weak.
  • Ensure there are no air bubbles.
  • CLEAN thoroughly before application.
Patching
More patching

Similar situation in the front; two screwdrivers one following the other so to space the tip entry points. At this point I also decided that the blue piping on the front will be replaced with black piping.

Box removed, hull front hull removed.

Next up came the fiber work to be done on the front hull (after the grinding and sanding of course – hope you like white powder).

Unsanded
Notice the different fiber

Thanks for the quick read of Part 1. Part 2 is soon to follow.