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Well I would actually like to relocate there, I just always seem to have trouble finding companies who don't get flooded with resumes and throw half of them out. If anyone knows of a company who'd be interested in a recent grad who likes to code code/debug, is highly motivated, has good communication skills, and has some work experience doing all of the above, you can earn yourself some money by helping me.

I'm 23, have been using/messing around with Linux/Solaris since I was 18 and have a BS in CS from University of Delaware. I currently live in Delaware. Where are these jobs? I'd be very interested if you could help me. I am willing to compensate anyone for their efforts (that's my site/resume).

I believe this whenever I get hired for anything even close. I graduated last year and have been looking ever since. I've seen people who don't believe they're nearly as smart/good as I am (their words not mine) get hired and I continue to be under-employed.

If anyone would like to prove me wrong, you can get $500 for doing so (yep, it's legit, you can mess with my resume (no lying) and you do get paid).

I don't understand either. I all my Perl programming for Windows.

If anyone's interested, I've developed a hardware/software audit script entirely in Perl for Win32 (binaries included) that stores data in a centralized MySQL server. Vist here.

I'm sorry, but I have to do a shameless plug. Though I'm entry level, I think I have a fair ammount of innate talent in addition to my degree. If anyone knows of anyone looking for an entry level developer, you could get $500 from me

I'm pretty much in the same position, except it only took me 4 years and I got a 2nd degree. The market sucks. If anyone wants $500, they can find me a job

Hi, I was in charge of LAN parties for ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) at the University of Delaware. We had similar issues to the same ones you did and there's multiple ways to resolve it.

1) Some games have implied licensing. For example, say a certain game allows you only one copy of a key per internet server, but 4 copies of a given license per LAN server. Since this was done deliberately, it can be seen as an implicit contract since surely this was no accident.

2) I did multiple LAN parties. One of the things I realized reading the EULAs was that it was for one copy of the game to be "installed and played on one system". I then thought of the word "and". What I ended up doing, is making a contract (doc format sorry) through which people gave us permission to use a copy of their game for our events. Given the above "install and use" restriction, the person isn't required to attend the event, merely not be using their copy of the game at the same time. From there, I noticed I had large pools of licenses for two games and simply split each LAN party into two parts (one playing each game). I'm fairly certain the general idea is kosher. I talked to our University's computer ethics advisor and a professional IP lawyer and both thought it sounded great.

I had further ideas, but since I graduated, I never got a chance to implement them. One was to buy copies of a game that for extra licenses and then sell them (at no profit) to people who attended the parties who liked the games (I got a lot of approval for this, but no funding in time for me to implement it before graduation).

I graduated last summer with a BS in computer science. My resume can be found here. I've applied everywhere I can find and with no luck. I'm currently working for $10/hr temp doing IT. If anyone out there has a job, I'd love to try for it.

--James