RJM62
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Geek on the Hill
I actually had myself scheduled for a full day of office time today, which was a good thing.
I got a call from a lady with a pilates business (you know, those exercises they do) whose webmaster had been somewhat unresponsive to her requests for service. (The client later learned that the webmaster's reason for being unreponsive was that he'd been in jail.)
When she was finally able to contact the webmaster upon his release, they had a bit of a falling out, and he deleted her site. Mind you, it was on a shared server that the client was paying for, not his own server. But he only pulled the index file, the flash files, and a few of the images, and made some changes to the .htaccess file. So most of the content was still there.
In the meantime, he used the client's server space to build a soft-core porn site. The site had roughly 300 MB of porn on it and .htaccess code to redirect his porn client's traffic to the space on the pilates client's server. So basically, the pilates instructor was paying for Web hosting for a porn site, while her own site was down.
So... I spent the better part of the morning downloading porn, sifting though it to find the pilates instructor's files, and putting her site back up. Because it's a shared server, the download speed was throtlled to 45 KB/sec, which means I had no choice but to sit there for hours watching the porn download and sifting through it as it arrived.
I would post some of the porn, but I don't enjoy being sued for IP infringement. As it is, I had to call the lawyer just to make sure I could legally delete it from the server. He said I could remove it since the porn site owner / model had no right to host her site on someone else's server, even if it was done without her knowledge; but that I had to archive the porn in case she wanted it back (any thoughts on this from the lawyers among us?). So I dutifully backed up the porn on my office Linux server and onto a CD, and sent a copy to my lawyer who wanted it for safekeeping.
The Pilates site is in pretty bad shape, structurally speaking, but the things that are wrong with it are not the kinds of things most visitors would notice. It's nowhere near being W3C compliant, the meta tags and ALT tags are missing, and other things like that. But she paid me to retrieve it and put it back up, not to redesign it. (Although I did remove the broken links, at least.)
Net result: $570.00 billable for sitting at my desk sifting through soft-core porn.
Rich
I got a call from a lady with a pilates business (you know, those exercises they do) whose webmaster had been somewhat unresponsive to her requests for service. (The client later learned that the webmaster's reason for being unreponsive was that he'd been in jail.)
When she was finally able to contact the webmaster upon his release, they had a bit of a falling out, and he deleted her site. Mind you, it was on a shared server that the client was paying for, not his own server. But he only pulled the index file, the flash files, and a few of the images, and made some changes to the .htaccess file. So most of the content was still there.
In the meantime, he used the client's server space to build a soft-core porn site. The site had roughly 300 MB of porn on it and .htaccess code to redirect his porn client's traffic to the space on the pilates client's server. So basically, the pilates instructor was paying for Web hosting for a porn site, while her own site was down.
So... I spent the better part of the morning downloading porn, sifting though it to find the pilates instructor's files, and putting her site back up. Because it's a shared server, the download speed was throtlled to 45 KB/sec, which means I had no choice but to sit there for hours watching the porn download and sifting through it as it arrived.
I would post some of the porn, but I don't enjoy being sued for IP infringement. As it is, I had to call the lawyer just to make sure I could legally delete it from the server. He said I could remove it since the porn site owner / model had no right to host her site on someone else's server, even if it was done without her knowledge; but that I had to archive the porn in case she wanted it back (any thoughts on this from the lawyers among us?). So I dutifully backed up the porn on my office Linux server and onto a CD, and sent a copy to my lawyer who wanted it for safekeeping.
The Pilates site is in pretty bad shape, structurally speaking, but the things that are wrong with it are not the kinds of things most visitors would notice. It's nowhere near being W3C compliant, the meta tags and ALT tags are missing, and other things like that. But she paid me to retrieve it and put it back up, not to redesign it. (Although I did remove the broken links, at least.)
Net result: $570.00 billable for sitting at my desk sifting through soft-core porn.
Rich
Yeah! Just take his content from HER web site and put it on DVD. Replace the main page with an offer to sell the DVDs for $5. What's he gonna do? Sue ya? 
