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Pro bono, or do you want to get paid?
What technology are you interested in? Do you want to focus on C# / .NET / ASP.NET, or explore something like Ruby on Rails?
I've got a few projects on the back burner that could use a lot of work in both technology stacks, and would love to have someone I can mentor and that could work on these things, and you could use as a reference.
Marc
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No, I'm not looking to get paid at this time. While ideally a job is the goal of this endeavor at the moment I'm looking to gain some practical experience. I really only know the .Net environment, I'm taking the codeschool.com courses as I get the time but I have absolutely 0 experience with Ruby.
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If you are in Florida I know a company that is probably interviewing for summer intern right now.
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You could try elance.com for projects to do.
Teaching anything related is always good, especially because you can get to see inside companies and build up contacts and references.
Maybe you would rather do developing, but your network security is in high demand, and could be a way to get your foot in the door of a company that might have openings for a developer. That is basically how I started, although it took 5 years to get what I wanted.
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One of the things wrong with education is that they are too often owned by big gorillas and don't teach anything else. Being tied to .Net is going to tie you up and greatly limit your opportunities. I would try to do anything to expand beyond Microsoft.
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I wanted to take the time to thank each of you for your responses. You have all given me a lot of good information. I'm definitely going to look more into bitwise operations and more into open source projects to try and contribute to.
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on my 2TB external HDD for portable use.
I use the code from here[^] to get Cygwin to work without permission errors.
How many people here use Cygwin?
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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I havnt used it for years, but thanks for the post - I've filed it for future reference
The last time I saw it used was really only for SSH on Windows, using a Windows machine as a hub to connect to various LAN drives, and having unix machines be able to transfer to/from the LAN drives. There were some reasons why Samba/CIFS etc wasn't used, I think they were security related
Always handy to have stuff like this is the kit bag though 
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I like Cygwin, and I am planning on building a number of things for it, such as PHP (hopefully), Geany, Abiword, Gnumeric, GnuCash, Dia, Mono, Ruby 2.1, and anything else I find that may be useful.
EDIT: Just looked at Cygwin Ports and found they have some of what I was going to build, so I will use their builds instead.
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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 I guess its horses for courses - I felt it was a bit big and unwieldy if all it was doing was acting as this SSH/HUB<->LAN interface - that being said, it did the job
'g'
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been using it for years - great tool! I had done a lot of Un*x shell scipting in the past and being able to have all those tools accessible on Windows is really nice.
modified 2-Mar-14 15:23pm.
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I am using Win 8.1, so Cygwin is really my only option, as neither of those Unix subsystems works on that platform (AFAIK). I like Cygwin, anyways, although I usually install a base system with some development tools and build most other things I use.
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: as neither of those Unix subsystems works on that platform
Mingw works on Windows 8.1, but it seems Microsoft dropped support for SFU as of Windows 8.1 - perhaps they'll drop support for keyboards in Windows 9.
Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I like Cygwin
It's an impressive effort ... implementing fork on top of the Windows API is no mean feat.
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As a side note, there is MinGW-w64[^], which is GCC for 32- and 64-bit Windows.
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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One of my uncles had to smell armpits as part of his job at Gillette.
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I'm currently watching a man smelling the breath of ten people who haven't brushed their teeth for 5 days to tell if they are male or female.
He got one wrong.
The science says there is a difference in the oral cavity of the genders and so their breath smells different.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: I'm currently watching a man smelling the breath of ten people who haven't brushed their teeth for 5 days
You have too much time on your hands. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Quote: I'm currently watching a man smelling the breath of ten people who haven't brushed their teeth for 5 days to tell if they are male or female.
He got one wrong.
Actually I think he got the ten bit sooooo wrong!!! 
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The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Sounds like the perfect job for a certain German alpine skier[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store and he does a double take. He recognizes that the saucer is extremely old and very valuable, so he walks casually into the store and offers to buy the cat for two dollars.
The storeowner replies, "I'm sorry, but the cat isn't for sale."
The collector says, "Please, I need a hungry cat around the house to catch mice. I'll pay you twenty dollars for that cat."
And the owner says, "Sold," and hands over the cat.
The collector continues, "Hey, for the twenty bucks I wonder if you could throw in that old saucer. The cat's used to it and it'll save me from having to get a dish."
And the owner says, "Sorry buddy, but that's my lucky saucer. So far this week I've sold sixty-eight cats."
/ravi
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Nice. Bonus points for being clean. 
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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