[ale] WRT54G2 wifi router troubles

[m-aaron-r]

I'm with billing the MCSE guy at $180 / hr.  for fixing all the problems
his recommendations caused and that he was not willing to then
provide installation service for himself.

Inform the client that the guy is a tool and she should never listen to
a single word of his advice until he is willing to support his
recommendations and fix all her problems for free.

peace
aaron




On 2010/04/08, at 16:24 , Lightner, Jeff wrote:

> M ostly
> C lueless
> S upport
> E ntity
>
> Of course you did the wrong thing – now he’ll refuse to honor his  
> work since you “interfered” and will blame anything that goes wrong  
> in future on her laptop on you.   “Well you see the reason your hard  
> drive failed is because of the extra work caused by not doing the  
> pass through…” :-)
>
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of  
> Jim Kinney
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:34 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] WRT54G2 wifi router troubles
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
> MCSE technical guru != Genius
>
> So now her MCSE dude is telling her that she really wants to put her
> DHCP modem in pass-through mode and do PPPOE through her wireless
> router.
>
> Strike MCSE dude with a large, blunt object. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.  
> This will accomplish nothing except to complicate the connection  
> process onto her system. There's _no_good_ reason to provide the  
> windows laptop with a direct  to the Internet IP address. There are  
> _many_very_good_ reasons to hide all windows machines behind layers  
> and layers of obfuscation and security and IPv6 blocks.
>
> I wrote an email to the other guy, but I'm assured that he won't
> answer and probably won't even read it, seein' as how he's a
> $100-an-hour system administrator and everything.
>
> Did I do the Right Thing?
>
> Send him a bill for $180/hr.
>
>
>
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