haha so this city councilman of Tuttle, Oklahoma saw the default webpage for a CentOS apache server and he accused the makers of hacking the city's computer systems!

he just wouldn't respond to any reasoning!

the highlights, but it's well worth the 5-minute read.

CentOS forum post by the lead developer
via digg

Quote :

"Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:52:58 +0000 (Wed, 18:52 CST) Jerry A. Taylor submitted the following Information: Email xxxxxxx Company City of Tuttle Location Oklahoma Comments Who gave you permission to invade my website and block me and anyone else from accessing it??? Please remove your software immediately before I report it to government officials!! I am the City Manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma."

Quote :

"From: Johnny Hughes To: Jerry A. Taylor Subject: Re: http://www.centos.org - Contact Us Form Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:59:18 -0600 I feel sorry for your city. CentOS is an operating system. It is probably installed on the computer that runs your website. We hope you are happy with it, since we produced it for free and you are able to use it without paying us ... and are even threatening to have us arrested for providing to you free of charge. Please contact someone who does IT for you and show them the page so that they can configure your apache webserver correctly. Thanks, Johnny Hughes, CentOS 4 Lead Developer"

Quote :

"From: Jerry A. Taylor To: CentOS Web Site Subject: http://www.centos.org - Contact Us Form Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:58:31 +0000 (12:58 CST) Jerry A. Taylor submitted the following Information: Email xxxxx Company City of Tuttle Location Oklahoma Comments Get this web site off my home page!!!!! It is blocking access to my website!!!!~!"

Quote :

"From: Jerry.Taylor To: Johnny Hughes Subject: Re: http://www.centos.org - Contact Us Form Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:58:24 -0600 Johnny, I have contacted the City's network administrator wnd he has done nothing to install your CentOS software. I have contacted our Internet provider and they know nothing about your software. I am computer literate! I have 22 years in computer systems engineering and operation. Now, can you tell me how to remove "your software" that you acknowledge you provided free of charge? I consider this "hacking". I have no fear of the media, in fact I welcome this publicity. Just correct this problem and leave this system alone in the future. Jerry"

3/25/2006 3:39:47 PM

god damn

3/25/2006 3:56:30 PM

http://tinyurl.com/feewp

[Edited on March 25, 2006 at 4:33 PM. Reason : citymgr@cityoftuttle.org]

3/25/2006 4:33:07 PM

heh heh

3/25/2006 5:35:14 PM

Quote :

" I am please"

nothing says ' I have 22 years in computer systems engineering and operation' like comic sans

3/25/2006 5:55:45 PM

it's like reading about Raige in 20 years

3/25/2006 7:54:02 PM

^haha

http://www.cityoftuttle.org/

That's the page with the default page up btw.

3/25/2006 8:04:51 PM

'in fact, i welcome this publicity!' - that's where keepin it real went wrong haha

they should have a geek version of dave chappelle's "when keeping it real goes horribly wrong" lol

3/26/2006 2:37:25 AM

Same guy?

3/26/2006 12:36:35 PM

Jerry Taylor and the mayor claim they did nothing wrong via digg

Quote :

"Taylor said that he didn’t understand why so many people were concerned about an e-mail exchange between two people. “This is just a bunch of freaks out there that don’t have anything better to do,” he said. “When I came in to work Monday morning, I had about 500 e-mails, plus anonymous phone calls from all the geeks out there. [CentOS is] a free operating system that this guy gives away, which tells you how much time he’s got on his hands.” Taylor said that the mistake could have happened to anyone, and he stands by what he did. “I’m not about to follow any instructions on an unknown web page,” Taylor said. “That could put a virus on my system.” Mayor Paxton said that the city manager knows a lot more about computers than he does, and he trusts Taylor"

what a retard!

4/3/2006 9:08:47 PM