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Amazingly he looks to have quite a good record at the RentACoder site.

This Rent-a-Coder Project makes me wonder if he's read the license, or just an incredibly dedicated fan.

I very much doubt that is true as the whole point of women's shelters is normally that they are confidential.

Indeed. I work for a telco and we had a women's shelter as a customer at one point. Special arrangements were made so that the shelter's number would be unlisted, that the physical address of the shelter not be directly associated with the account, and that the domain registration be done entirely in our company's name.

This is typical, as a woman's shelter (which frequently also shelter's children) is literally trying to save people's lives. There's a lot of twisted fucks who think nothing of beating their own spouses, even their own babies until they are crippled or dead.

This story ignites a great deal of rage in me. Children are the, and I mean THE most critical resource to humanity. Air, water, food, those are just things we need to survive long enough to have children and raise them to adults. Each new generation is what provides continuinty of our species, as well as our culture.

Because of Mark Dennis, hundreds of children already living lives of questionable quality have had those lives put at greater risk. What a pathetic loser.

Here's his Rent-A-Coder page:

Mark Dennis

I've also managed to find the job that was being discussed:

The Job

Seems the job has been "deleted"

Here's his Rent-A-Coder page:

Mark Dennis

I've also managed to find the job that was being discussed:

The Job

Seems the job has been "deleted"

Exactly my point :) Crazy or not, the funny thing is... a whole load of those projects actually get done [scroll down]. I've completed about a dozen projects at RAC for rediculously low sums of money. Not that I needed the money; was just bored with everything else in life. Now I kind of got seriously bored of RAC too. My life sucks.

*sigh*

Exactly my point :) Crazy or not, the funny thing is... a whole load of those projects actually get done [scroll down]. I've completed about a dozen projects at RAC for rediculously low sums of money. Not that I needed the money; was just bored with everything else in life. Now I kind of got seriously bored of RAC too. My life sucks.

*sigh*

Have a look at rentacoder. It most likely won't pay your bills but it might feed your goldfish...

Go post it on Rent A Coder

A few sites:

• Rent-a-coder
• Scriptlance
• Elance
• ProjectsPool
• Web Developers Index

Try Rentacoder

Have you seen the RentACoder web site? Seems like they've done it already. Check out the
open bid requests lists in the upper right...

You're thinking of Rent-a-coder.

Rentacoder
Its from the same people that run planet source code
I cant see any requirement for GPL though.

I think this guys's description of a request for a spamming program sums up his intentions:

"Well i have a proxy scanner that gets socks proxies, port 6588 and 1080, I need you to code a proxy mailer that will utilize this proxy. Will have an interface, random subjects, encoding, random fields, and ability to pass most mail filters and very good speed too..

My proxy scanners put the proxies on a http file so you need to make the mailer use cron jobs to get the proxies every 5mins or so.. Well who can do this, lets talk more."

can anybody find out who this guy is?

And the link:

Proxy mailer

I saw one wanting someone to build them a popup spammer using the Microsoft messaging flaw.

I saw one wanting someone to build them a popup spammer using the Microsoft messaging flaw.

Hiyas!

Not sure if that helps or not since I couldnt find what exact area you would like to work in, but here it is:
Rent A Coder
The main site has problems right now, but I can get to specific subsites by bookmarked URL so it should be back soon.

With an account you can bid for small scale software dev projects.
A says "I want an TCP Stack for my microwave oven"
B says "I've done 10 projects so far and to implement your project I want 100 bucks!"
C says "I've done 1 project so far and to do your stuff I want 75 bucks!"

No a gets to choose if he wants to contract B or C.

I've created an account but due to lack of time didnt land a contract yet, but I've heard some quite positive things about this site.
I stumbled accross that site when people where talking about making some money in their freetime on some bulletin board - if you're good you can make like 1000$ a month with that.

Hope this helps!
Good luck to you & your family!

Have you considered doing any sort of contract/consulting type work? Sites like elance and Rent-a-Coder have many small, medium and large projects available. This is an interesting way to bid on projects that have been outsourced by other companies.

If your a begginer, "x For Dummies". If you actually want to learn a topic inside out 10x, by the O'Riely and Wrox Press book on the subject. Read both cover to cover and do all the exercises (often overlooked). After you have done this and taken several Rent-A-Coder jobs, you'll be ready for most anything.

Now, as for learning Linux. I would (assuming your on Windoze), download Mandrake Linux, install it, then start toying around with it. Several years ago thats what I did, and now know Linux very well.

This person hasn't heard of RentACoder.com. Ex silicon valley
hackers have relocated to Bangalore India and are now taking massive devlopment projects for 65 cents.

I have been monitoring the site for quite a while, I want someone to port my
classic DOOMs to the PDA and no one showed up to take the job except for some
newbie called jcarmack. I will probably pay him the 70 cents he is asking for
just to give him a shot, no one else shows up.

And yes, my fur carpet is 100% coder skin, we hunted that from Java-ONE.