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

[Charles Shapiro]

Sounds like you're ready to put "6 months professional Linux
experience" on your resume (heh)

-- CHS

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:21 AM, jrtroberts <jrtroberts at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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