[geeks] request for assistance

[hike]

Quite a strange response.  If you can't help, don't make things worse.  It
is good to help people who ask for help--without regard for their perceived
status.  In all likelihood, the young lady would appreciate the needed
help.  (It is quite evident that the requester in Austin would.)
 Sometimes, "good will" is the difference between life and death; success
and failure; etc.--that is, one can never have enough "good will" from
others.


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:

> If she can afford to operate a theatre in the single most expensive zip
> code in America, she can probably afford to pay a small business IT firm to
> handle things.
>
> I don't understand why this attitude is so common about IT services
> specifically.  I wouldn't ask my stylist friends to do my hair for free,
> much less do I expect them to beg mailing lists to find a third party to do
> it.
>
>
> On 10/16/2013 04:08 PM, Michael Parson wrote:
>
>> I have a friend in NYC that is not very technical, but needs some tech
>> work that I can't work through remotely.
>>
>> She's in Manhattan, Tribeca area, Church and Franklin.
>>
>> Basically, she runs a theater down there that has been having problems
>> with people breaking in.  For some reason, the building owners won't let
>> her run a hard-wired internet connection.
>>
>> She's gathered what she believes is everything she needs, she just
>> doesn't have the skills to set it up up herself.
>>
>> She has a network-connected security camera system (ethernet only, no
>> Wifi), a Linksys WRT-54GS2 (not sure which revision, but she's insisted
>> it's NOT a 1.5 which can't run dd-wrt), and a MiFi device of some sort.
>>
>> She needs someone who can do a factory reset on the MiFi device and
>> reconfigure it with some reasonable Wi-Fi security, flash dd-wrt onto
>> the Linksys and configure it into bridge mode so the security system can
>> be connected to over the Internet.
>>
>> All told, I wouldn't expect this to take too long, but it's not
>> something I can easily do from Austin.
>>
>> So... would anyone be willing to help her out?  There's no money in
>> it, but you get that grand sense of good will that you've helped out
>> someone. :)
>>
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