Sorry I've been more unresponsive to email than usual lately. I've been going through a rather gutwrenching job decision - right during the middle of a major implementation for my current day-job employer. The counter offers have been made and delt with and the dust has settled so things should start to get back to "normal" very shortly. Well, actually, better than normal. The new job I'm taking is almost the same pay but only 3 days a week - work not an MLM *GRIN*). Needless to say, this will give me more time with my collection, this list, etc. It will also allow me to spend much more time growing my consulting practice and internet service (web hosting and colocation), which is really what I want to do full time. So needless to say - if anyone is aware of any consulting/support opportunities in the areas of FreeBSD Unix, sendmail, Bind, apache, mysql, etc. I'd love to hear it. My particular specialty is high availability clustering of both apache and mysql. I'm targeting true consulting rather than contracting. I'm not looking for long term contracts. Just ongoing support, maybe a day onsite occasionally if need be. I can do most things remotely but have no problem traveling either. I'm also a good C programmer but I really prefer to keep that to the hobby side of things. In addition, I'm definitely looking for companies who need a firm to host their website or wish to colocate gear. I've been very pleasantly suprised so far at just how quickly a lot of cheap web hosting customers can add up to real dollars! I won't repeat my diatribe on my datacenter - suffice it to say it's a world class datacenter with serious connectivity - not a couple of servers in my basement. Who knows... might even try to find some companies who still run 21MX gear and want hardware support (lord knows I've got the excess inventory), or maybe I can finally start real work on getting that computer museum off the ground :) Regards, Jay West --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]