> I can't suggest anything to help with making more hours in the day, > other than take a lot of westbound jet flights, and always continue > westbound. ;) But I have a couple of ideas for the device shortage: > > 1. Skip surfing / dumpster diving > Old "useless" machines are excellent netfilterers. > 2. User-mode Linux > Set up an entire network on one physical machine. There are a lot of things that can be done with UML, but more can be done with said low end boxen. I personally have at present more than a dozen unallocated P-II 233 MHz 64 MB RAM systems (read GREAT routers!) and an 8 port KVM switch box with cables that I'd be more than willing to hook up to some boxen to work with. Grant. . . .