Flutterby™! : Sour note

I was visiting some links and thoughts for a product and went back to what was a major thing in Linuxland a few years ago, the Linux Router Project. We built LRP based routers for a couple of people that ran them for years.. a MoBo, a Floppy Disk and two NICS including the local DA's office and several businesses. Never charged much for setting them up, we were very happy to just solve a problem.

A good paragraph extracted from LRP:

" I am also now semi-retired as a computer engineer. Aside from my general disgust at the computing industry and what the Internet has become, scrambling around for scrapes of work and praying for the next good money project that eventually ends suddenly in a few months, just isn't keeping food on the table. I've looked quite a bit for some stable work, but plumbers make more hourly then Sys Admins in South Florida. Either I move to California (never!) or move on. I am now reserved to do the latter. With LRP remaining an unachievable goal I don't even feel much desire to work with computers anymore. "

Which reminds me I need to add some funds to my PayPal account and send some people some 'Thank You's" for things I've recently use and made a couple of bucks off of, including: Courier and Joe, as well as a few people I should go buy their commercial version of software to support their efforts like: MySQL.