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From: Tom Harrington on 3 Jan 2010 16:51
In article
<157e4371-44d3-4d20-a8b0-8d2794ee3da0(a)d20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
Cori <cmashieldscapting(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 3, 8:30�am, Tim McNamara <tim...(a)bitstream.net> wrote:
>
> > If he's changed Internet services, he will have a new IP address and
> > this should be a none problem. �Your question suggests that he is a
> > serial spammer or other some-such miscreant if he keeps getting blocked
> > from online forums and message boards.
>
> He's only blocked from one, and he posts there only enough to maintain
> his account. Thing is, his ISP gives away what region of the country
> he is from just for starters. He wants to surf in anonymity as well
> as continue access to this message board where there have been some
> creative differences.

So, um, this message board blocks his entire region of the country? I
don't get it. First you said he was banned by IP address, but since
that has changed it doesn't apply. But now he's apparently still banned
for some reason unrelated to IP address, and you want us to help him
bypass the discussion site's user-blocking system? It seems to me that
either (a) this site blocks people for no good reason, in which case it
sucks and friend should move on to saner pastures (it's not like there's
any shortage of web sites on any topic), or (b) this site is banning
friend for a good reason and friend has no business trying to force his
way in.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Cori on 3 Jan 2010 17:02
There is an Application called ChangeMAC which is very much like what
was recommended before--to disguise from the PC users that you are
using a Mac. Trouble is, it can't have been that, or if it was it was
an earlier version I now can't find, as the current version is for OS
X 10.5 or higher.

Cori
From: Calum on 3 Jan 2010 17:07
On 03/01/10 22:02, Cori wrote:
> There is an Application called ChangeMAC which is very much like what
> was recommended before--to disguise from the PC users that you are
> using a Mac. Trouble is, it can't have been that, or if it was it was
> an earlier version I now can't find, as the current version is for OS
> X 10.5 or higher.

For web forums, one could presumably just enable the Develop menu in
Safari, and tell it to masquerade as one of the Windows User Agents.

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From: Tim McNamara on 3 Jan 2010 17:17
In article
<a0e5a66a-5eb9-4a75-b31b-7c35f0da6ef8(a)j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
Cori <cmashieldscapting(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> There is an Application called ChangeMAC which is very much like what
> was recommended before--to disguise from the PC users that you are
> using a Mac. Trouble is, it can't have been that, or if it was it
> was an earlier version I now can't find, as the current version is
> for OS X 10.5 or higher.

It can't have been that under any version. A MAC address has nothing to
do with the IP address of a Mac (note the capitalizations differences:
MAC does not equal Mac(intosh)).

--
"I wear the cheese, it does not wear me."
From: Tim Streater on 3 Jan 2010 17:29
On 03/01/2010 22:17, Tim McNamara wrote:
> In article
> <a0e5a66a-5eb9-4a75-b31b-7c35f0da6ef8(a)j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
> Cori<cmashieldscapting(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is an Application called ChangeMAC which is very much like what
>> was recommended before--to disguise from the PC users that you are
>> using a Mac. Trouble is, it can't have been that, or if it was it
>> was an earlier version I now can't find, as the current version is
>> for OS X 10.5 or higher.
>
> It can't have been that under any version. A MAC address has nothing to
> do with the IP address of a Mac (note the capitalizations differences:
> MAC does not equal Mac(intosh)).

It's the ethernet address of the interface, basically a 48-bit number.
I'm recalling that the first 24 bits indicate the vendor and the other
24 bits were unique to the interface as the vendor built them.

Vendor 24-bits originally issued by Xerox but someone else now, I think.

--
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines
imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"

Bill of Rights 1689
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