OT: Taking control of my life

[Bryan O'Neal]

If you think you have a million dolor idea I will give you a cheep VM for
six months until revenue kicks in. Need to show progress after 3 months.

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Technomage <technomage.hawke at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On 7/31/10 8:13 AM, keith smith wrote:
>
>
> Eric,
>
> These are tough times.  You seem to like Linux and the things that surround
> it.  I am wondering about something not so main stream.
>
> Have you thought of ways to make money off the internet?  Would you be able
> to support a LAMP server?  Programming?  Writing (building an authority site
> on a specific theme) and affiliate marketing?
>
> It costs little in dollars to get these types of going.  The real cost is
> in time.  It could take 6 months of full-time effort to get things working
> and making some decent money, however after that you have momentum.
>
>
>
>    I wouldn't mind hosting a server or 2 here. Hwever, I am on a
> residential service package and cox would terminate me quickly for any such
> activity (why do they give us a fat pipe if they aren't going to allow us to
> use it then?). I would seriously have to go back to school to relearn what i
> have lost over years of non-use (and lacking money, thats going to make
> things difficult). I can do some online learning.  I am in the midst of
> setting up for retraining at the Arizona Bridge to Independent Living. I've
> gone 20 years without learning braille and i find I must now use it
> frequently, soo. I am getting the training.
>
> Now, I do make money from servicing computers ever now and then (word of
> mouth advertising) and my rates are not cheap (about $65.00 an hour) but I
> don't require payment (especially if you happen to be in the same straights
> I am). I use the computer service thing to keep up minimum skills on the
> hardware and software I use. I does get me over a hump in some months
> though.
>
> as for linux, I can run it either on a stand alone machine or as part of a
> VM here. Since I do have a lot of uptime (unless the power drops or cox has
> problems with their net) I think I can handle some remote ops (I just can't
> advertise it much as cox would want a lot more $$$ to convert me to a
> business line).
>
> I'll look into LAMP or perhaps a few others. I need to relearn a lot of
> stuff anyway.
>
>
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