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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>>did you get
your Samba issue fixed?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, I finally figured it out this morning. I
had the domain set to match that of the web site it was serving, which was on
the other side of a router, so not even on the local subnet. The DNS
queries from that got Samba all messed up. Ugh!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, I would have gladly paid someone $150 for an
hour's work to solve that problem. That assumes they could figure it out
in an hour--I know any number of people who would have taken a day or
two to track that one down. I can't afford that rate for that amount
of time (nor does the economic model you described fit as well for an all day
job).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm a small business owner. I have a number
of Linux items I'd like to off-load, but if it costs me a lot more to off-load
it than to do it myself, in spite of the learning curve--well if I do it myself,
at least I learned something. I'll offload PCB layout or writing DSP
drivers because I can get them done for $50 an hour or less. On the other
hand, if I found someone locally who knew what they were doing and charged
reasonably, I'd have ongoing work for them from time to time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, my charge out rates aren't the highest even in
my field (which actually is more complex than Linux or networking).
However, I evaluated the situation a few years ago. A friend of mine was
charging twice what I was, but admitted he spent half his time marketing
himself. Hmmm, he's bringing home the same per month that I am.
Since I prefer engineering to marketing, I think I've got the better deal.
I haven't had a down day in probably 10 years. BTW, my fees have to cover
a few thousand dollars worth of assets like test equipment, computers and
engineering development software.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wilton</FONT></DIV>
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