[Noisebridge-discuss] OccupySF: Windows 7 and/or ustream Tech Support Requested

[rachel lyra hospodar]

I ended up talking to MCT tonight about the power supply issue and he
mentioned this guy's virusy windows laptop to me. We had a good chuckle over
it but since I have used ustream before and am familiar with windoze I
thought i'd at least offer to look at it, since ustream is super buggy and I
suspected that was the support he needed.

The laptop was out of his control, powered up and logged in, for at least an
hour.  It seems now that some windows user preferences are changed/reset,
and his ustream account has been, errr, spoofed? Ish. Anyway he had a petty
conflict with someone at the occupation, regarding territorialism & ustream,
and it would appear that they did some malicious things to his computer. I
talked him off his ledge and he knows how/is prepared to wipe and reformat.
If anyone is interested in the details let me know.

If anyone is interested in providing support for the occupation in a less
painful way than helping a windows user who has left their computer laying
around in a public space, there are lots of ways we could help support them!
I'd love to help get NB more involved, we have done some awesome things
already. Shouts out to jake and miloh and zach and I am sure others I don't
know about.

They could use another car battery if anyone has an extra.

Fighting for real change never seemed so likely to succeed.

R.

mediumreality.com
On Oct 12, 2011 9:15 PM, "Michael C. Toren" <mct at toren.net> wrote:

> I received a phone call from OccupySF a few minutes ago.  They got my
> phone number from the contact information I left on the USB PowerStation
> we built for them.  (More on that in another post, soon!)
>
> A gentleman camped out there named James has a Dell 1640 laptop running
> Windows 7 that he suspects may be infected, based on behavior he's
> observing with the ustream application when he's trying to stream video
> out to the world.  He could use help from someone who is Windows 7 and/or
> ustream savvy.  I have his contact information.  If you can help and would
> like to reach him, let me know, and I can relay you his info.
>
> Thanks,
> -mct
>
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