Looking for a new computer-based hobby.

[polm]

I love video games, but these days I pretty much only play America'sArmy and CastleWolfensteing Enemy Territory, and I don't play them all that much to begin with.

For over 5 years I was a Unix/NT admin and I spent most of my computer time honing my admin skills.

For the last 2 years I have been a Network Analyst/Engineer supporting LAN/WAN swithes and routers...mostly Cisco and Nortel based. I can't really practice or develop my networking skills as they relate to Cisco, Nortel, etc.
on my home setup.

I run linux and I would love to contribute to the open source community , but alas, I am not a developer. My coding skills are limited to perl and bash scripts. A search on sourceforge.net's Help Wanted doesn't produce anything interesting to me.

I would love to work on visually creative projects, but I usually get no further than opening up Gimp, playing with a few supid filters and getting nowhere fast.

Any suggestions ?

 

[Howard]

Try designing computer peripherals.

 

[Coquito]

Design a more efficient proggie for us to crunch in Distributed Comp. 😀

 

[Wag]

More free pr0n.

 

[yobarman]

igda.org and cgtalk.com are always looking for indie designers for games. who knows, maybe you'll learn something.

 

[Farvacola]

My main computer hobyy is building and tweaking computers in general. I love building em and seeing em work. Its also really cool to build and set up servers!