From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 9 2:59: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3842C37B419 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 02:59:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 50501 invoked by uid 100); 9 Nov 2001 10:59:01 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15339.46837.837301.883814@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 04:59:01 -0600 To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Lockdown of FreeBSD machine directly on Net In-Reply-To: <104435519@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt types: > What always amazes me is the number of people in our town that are still > staggering along with these small ISP's that have been losing money for > years. Don't their S.O.'s get tired of supporting them?! Hey - that looks like a *question*! So I'll answer it. There are two industries that call their customers "users". Small operators in both business buy the product in bulk for their own use, then resell the excess to other users. If you're in the legal industry - as opposed to the illegal one - you get to write off the costs of your connections against your income, so making it not lose money isn't all that hard. You don't make very much money out of it, and the hours suck - but you're always home to deal with things while your S.O. is at work, so they'll put up with it. I gave this a serious look at one point in the past, figured I could make it go, but the hours would be sufficiently painfull so as to make it not worth the trouble. I chose to do contract work over the network line to get the tax justification, and have a good accountant to work the numbers. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message