[NTLUG:Discuss] FW: motivating shady clients to payup

[Chris Cox]

jeremyb at univista.com wrote:
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>    My partners and  I are simply concerned with getting payed in a
> timely
> manner.
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> 
> 1.  no password or usernames will be revealed to the clients until
> payment
> in full is recieved.
>      I hope this will delay local breakin's.
> 
> 3. no floppy drive or CDRom access and no floppy or CDrom booting.
> 
> 4. passworded BIOS.
> 
> 5. all servers other then Apache and ssh  will be diabled.
> 
> 2.  a combination of  "trial-period"  safe guards will do the following,
> 10
> days after activation.
>        -disable grafical representation of data.
>        -disable notification.
>        -completely disable network access 14 days after activation.
>     
> All of this will be disclosed to the client.  I'd like input from you
> all
> regarding this plan.... 

First, it's a shame you are doing business with someone
you don't trust (get some money up front next time).
As a contractor, your contract might want to include
something like "minimum number of hours is 40, payable
before start of work"... or something like that.

Second, apart from keeping the hard drive in your possesion,
as you have said, none of these will keep them out.

Third, if they rip you off... oh well, that's their problem.
But many do consider me to be a doormat.... I'm just that
way.

<humor>
6. Automatically install W2K SP3 on their W2K machines.
</humor>

(wipe your feet on the way out)
Chris