[ale] OT got my first job as a Computer Professional *kinda*

[jrtroberts]

Finished the job.  Everything went smoothly.  The only hiccup was that 
the DVD NOW company only has 1 tech support guy on in the mornings.

I was happy to see that the machine runs linux.  I watched it boot and 
saw the grub 1.5 boot screen.  So maybe in a very tanget like way I have 
my first professional linux experience.  8P  Two birds with one stone 
eh.  It was a bit of fun.

Joshua


On 07/13/10 08:29, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> IANAL,
>
> (Some technical stuff below, but not much. Hopefully not too OT.)
>
> Admissable is the wrong word.  If you have any potential evidence you
> think you will want to use to prove your case in the future then you
> want to secure it from future changes.  That way the judge/jury will
> give it more credibility, but if it exists its admissable.  Only the
> govt has to worry about the admissability of evidence aiui.  (Private
> citizens can't typically violate the constitution).
>
> Sending it to an uninterested 3rd party via email datestamps the
> email.  (The internal email headers are used to show when the email
> transited various servers, so the full email container is used.)
>
> Then if it becomes very important, you hire a uninterested/trusted
> party to retreive the email (from gmail, etc.) and certify that they
> did not modify the email / attachments.  If needed they can print the
> email headers and testify to why that means the email was actually
> sent when it appears to have been on its face.
>
> Greg
>
> On 7/11/10, Michael Potter<michael at potter.name>  wrote:
>    
>> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Mike Harrison<cluon at geeklabs.com>  wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, jrtroberts wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> I got a call on Thursday from a recruiting office in Nebraska, must be
>>>> cheaper in Nebraska, about installing a DVD NOW (essentially a redbox)
>>>> vending machine at an IGN in Marble Hill, GA.  (one time gig)
>>>>
>>>> pays $15 an hour with $15 Travel and time limit is 1.5 hours.  Based on
>>>> the instruction manual there is almost nothing to it.  My job is just to
>>>> open the guts and make sure the moving parts are not broken, then plug
>>>>          
>>> Congrats! You are no longer a hobbiest or amateur.
>>>
>>> Just in case they don't require it already:
>>> Once upon a time when I did this kind of work for a "jobber",
>>> I found that taking pictures of installs, customers locations,
>>> broken equipment, etc.. absolutely invaluable. If you have a
>>> phone (camera phone is fine..) take pics and save them.
>>> It helps when they say: The frammel rod is bent and you did not check
>>> that..  and you can show them the pic of the unit with a perfect frammel
>>> rod and the money acceptor intact when you installed it.
>>>
>>> *frammel rod is a fictitious part.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> The "take a picture" advice is excellent.  I will add to that: email the
>> photo to your gmail (or other third party) email account.   It is my
>> understanding that that will timestamp the picture in a way that would be
>> admissible as evidence.
>>
>>      
>