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How about this. Do a full fedora install to a bootable DVD disk for each computer. Leave the DVD in the drive, and let it boot off that clean image every morning. Give them USB thumbdrives to plug in to save their personal email to, and use firefox/thunderbird for web and email. If they need to access MS word, excel, etc, and open office doesn't cut it for them, let them RDP over to a machine running windows with your apps installed. Then you have 1 machine to maintain with the windoze nonsense, and a bunch of pretty much untouchable linux boxes throughout the office. There is no network overhead to boot, only to use RDP to access the central apps. -- http://californiasunhotels.com/ - in case you thought vacation was a mythical greek beast.

While the generality of your message may apply to life, it certainly doesn't apply to something as specific as an email inbox with all its possible forms. For instance, there are about 3 separate ways to mark, sort, and separate emails in my Thunderbird client without ever leaving the inbox. Add on top of that message filters that send emails to places other than my inbox without me ever seeing them, and you have a totally different use for emails as an automatic status logging tool.

On top of that, what kinds of backwards individuals are using email to keep track of their todo lists? While your 4 rules, (call them the two double d's) might take care of me in some kind of floatation incident, I certainly hope I can be more sophisticated in my life management than just throwing "boob rules" at all general problems that come my way.

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And I also wanted a little computer AI bot that would make me millions from the stock market off my initial investment of 19.95 http://reservations.californiasunhotels.com/

I can explain leverage very easily to you. It comes from the idea of using a tool to make a small amount of effort on your part produce a result you would have had found difficult or impossible to achieve without using the tool. This comes from the idea of a lever, because levers have been used for ages to lift and move rocks that people don't have the individual strength to move.

In the traditional physics sense, leverage does not increase the amount of work done, as a matter of fact the net work done on your target is equal to (or even less than) the amount of work you exert.

Want a simple example? The apache web server is a great one. It provides "leverage" because you focus your efforts only on developing a web page, and use the tool to serve it out to millions of people. You improve the tool (apache) by contributing small code bits, tweaks, bug fixes, feedback, and possibly even cold hard cash. You leverage all the other open source developers out there (and they also leverage you). The net result is you move a big stone (serving web pages with a full featured web server) with a small amount of effort, and over a longer period of time.

Here is an example of how I personally "leverage" many technologies, and businesses. I sell travel products (hotels and tickets ) through the web at http://reservations.californiasunhotels.com/. I dedicate my efforts to serving customers needs and providing them with the product they are looking for, but I use another company to contract the hotels, gather the inventory, and provide much of the technology powering our sales. I could do all this stuff myself which would be a herculean task, but instead, I pay a portion of my profits to them, and have a smaller effort on my part to get all that product out to customers.

I don't "magically" make more money because I use them, it actually costs me more per product. But it does allow me to specialize, and that makes me more efficient, and does allow me to get more done, and since I can sell more, my cost per item goes down. My customers get better prices (really, check the site for hotels and tickets, it's true), I get more sales for having better prices, and the company I pay gets more money. This defines another business concept some techs find hard to understand, "Win-Win-Win" scenarios.

I'm a techie and I used to feel that "business stuff" was evil and lying. I've found that view to really be a matter of culture, and that everyone is happy when you are honest, and provide good products at fair prices, and using fair practices. I held my original view from dealing with all the disreputable and inhuman corparations that I've interacted with my whole life. Now I feel I have a more accurate view that "business" isn't evil, but that evil is evil, and it is institutionalized and promulgated by those who are evil. Business is just another lever.

This guy got it right. And not to brag, but I know because I got it right too. You would almost never know that my site http://reservations.californiasunhotels.com/ is just one template running off a business backend that powers many sites. And just because I have a template to provide main navigation and headers across all pages doesn't mean I have to use the html to stylize them. By virtue of using templates, I have eased the pain of providing standard items across multiple pages 1000 fold.

The guy who mentions that templates are a bad idea because you should be controlling display with css seems to forget that css won't put the elements you want there to display in the first place. That is why you have templates. To provide different data chunks where appropriate in a consistent easily reproducible format. Use the css to lay them out however you want, but drop them on the page using a template for easiest maintenance. Css will *never* get you another column of new data, but a template can push it across as many pages as you want!

Umm you're almost exactly wrong on that. I for one make good use of google maps on my travel site http://reservations.californiasunhotels.com/ . I use it to show the location of a hotel overlaid on street maps so my customers are able to easily see the hotel's location in relation to nearby landmarks and features.

For instance, here
http://reservations.californiasunhotels.com/681_ho tel-location-info_h4404.html
you can see just how close the Mammoth Mountain Inn is to Mammoth Mountain, and the ski lifts. This is something my customers use *every day* . Google's "toy technology" is helping my customers make more informed decisions on where they want to stay, and i say Thanks Google for providing this cool "toy" that helps me help my customers.

Umm you're almost exactly wrong on that. I for one make good use of google maps on my travel site http://reservations.californiasunhotels.com/ . I use it to show the location of a hotel overlaid on street maps so my customers are able to easily see the hotel's location in relation to nearby landmarks and features.

For instance, here
http://reservations.californiasunhotels.com/681_ho tel-location-info_h4404.html
you can see just how close the Mammoth Mountain Inn is to Mammoth Mountain, and the ski lifts. This is something my customers use *every day* . Google's "toy technology" is helping my customers make more informed decisions on where they want to stay, and i say Thanks Google for providing this cool "toy" that helps me help my customers.