A Call to Arms to Bulldog Nation

by T Kyle King on Jun 11, 2007 11:33 AM EDT in Events

The second round is underway and your votes go here.

Please note the plural---"votes," not "vote"---because I am facing some tough competition in Run Up the Score!, who came by his moniker honestly, thanks to PSUgirl, a Penn State fan and regular commenter at Every Day Should Be Saturday.

PSUgirl is almost singlehandedly responsible for RUTS's advancement to the second round; as she explains:

It was me. Seriously, I voted like 100 times. As I mentioned before - my work computer is dying and it cuts out, a lot. Every time I re-boot - I get a new ISP - and a new chance to vote.

While I admire PSUgirl's ingenuity in the face of adversity---truly, necessity is the mother of invention---I find the challenge it presents to my further advancement in the hot blogger bracket daunting and, accordingly, I am throwing down the gauntlet before you, loyal Dawg Sports reader.

PSUgirl has demonstrated her intelligence, creativity, and dedication. Are you up to the task of matching her electoral skullduggery? More to the point, are we, as Georgians, going to allow ourselves to be outdone by the noble citizens of our great sister state of Pennsylvania again?

First there was Gettysburg. Then there were the Sugar Bowl losses to Pitt and Penn State at the end of the 1976, 1981, and 1982 seasons. Will our pride as Georgians allow us to fall victim to the fine denizens of the Keystone State another time?

I, for one, think better of my fellow citizens of the Empire State of the South than that.

Vote, I tell you! Vote as though the honor of your home state depended upon it!

Go 'Dawgs!

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If you really want to cheat properly...

PSU girl isn't getting a new ISP each time, she's getting a new IP address from her DHCP server when her PC reboots. And since the restriction on voting is based on IP address, every time you get a new one you can vote again.

Most likely your office uses a dynamic IP scheme {DHCP} so if you really want to cheat you can do the same thing.

Open a command prompt (start/run, type in "cmd" hit enter).
type in "ipconfig /all" and hit enter. In the section on your ethernet adapter, a few lines down will be the line "DHCP Enabled", and if it is set to YES then note your IP address.
type in "ipconfig /release" and hit enter, which will release the IP address assigned to your PC back into the available pool on the DHCP server. Note that when you do this your network connection will be lost, and any unsaved work relying on a network connection will be lost, so save it beforehand.
type in "ipconfig /renew" and you machine will reach out to the DHCP server and acquire a new IP address. You may or may not get the same address that you had before. If you get a new address, then you are good to go. If you get the same one, then release it again and then reboot your PC and you will have a better chance of getting a different IP address.

So there it is. If it comes down to feeling the need to fight fire with fire, then now you have the tools to do the PSUGirl yourself. And I'm pretty sure that you that these commands will work even if you don't have admin rights on your PC.

by Kanu on Jun 11, 2007 1:55 PM EDT reply actions

And if all else fails...

You can always go around the office and virtually stuff the ballot by voting from all of your co-workers PCs, if you are so inclined.

by Kanu on Jun 11, 2007 1:58 PM EDT reply actions

I do not understand your 133+ programming.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your programming code frightens and confuses me.

by Run Up The Score on Jun 11, 2007 3:41 PM EDT reply actions

Re: tech language cheat sheet

Yeah thanks for posting this up now...one round too late :(

by PopJocks on Jun 11, 2007 3:49 PM EDT reply actions

ouch!

Sorry about the wrong acronym! my bad.

Relieved to see that Kanu is as cranky here as he is elsewhere.

And is "cheat"ing really cheating if it's endorsed by the organizers? Doesn't that just make it part of the game? Besides, if I have to live with this crappy computer (supposed to be fixed today so my reign of chicanery is, sadly, likely to be at an end) shouldn't I be able to do something for the greater good? I mean, seriously, the Ladies seeded a Penn Stater at #19 and matched him up against a (albeit good-looking) Maryland Terrapin; ewh.

by PSUgirl on Jun 12, 2007 9:07 AM EDT reply actions

Not cranky PSUG...

...just sharing information in the good clean fun that this whole enterprise is based on.

Everyone seems to be taking this thing not so seriously and having fun with it, TKK included {note that he complimented you several times in this post}, so I'm not sure where the problem lays or lies or however one says it.

by Kanu on Jun 12, 2007 11:03 AM EDT reply actions