I'm a big fan of the Prius. However, if you're in the city, why own? I drive the Prius, in addition to many other cars, through my local car co-op:
http://www.zipcar.com
This will work for people that need a car for short errands in Boston, New York, DC, and recently Denver. You reserve a car in advance by phone or by the web. The zipcar density in Boston/Cambridge is so high that I have never been unable to find a car nearby when I needed it.
It also looks like there are a few car co-ops in the orginal poster's area:
http://www.carsharing.net/where.html
While this is sounding like a bit of a love story, I should close by saying that I used to own a car in the city and the insurance payments alone were murder, (not counting the gas a maintainace costs). And every major car repair was the cost of a new bicycle, so now I just bike and zipcar everywhere.
Managers already do this. Many companies put all their employees on web proxies for exactly this reason. I have friends that work in large companies where it is a known fact that managers review
1) Page views 2) Attempts to view blocked pages 3) Email with questionable content 4) Usage statistics on mail servers
As a result, I've helped those friends use web proxies and and SSL to add privacy to their workstations. putty port forwarding and a remotely running squid are their best worktime friends.
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That's what i'm trying to do with my web page. It's in french (i'm a french canadian) but it will be release in english soon. I need people more experienced than me in Linux, if you are interested or know someone let me know. Peruse my site at: http://pages.infinit.net/linus99
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I'm a big fan of the Prius. However, if you're in the city, why own? I drive the Prius, in addition to many other cars, through my local car co-op:
http://www.zipcar.com
This will work for people that need a car for short errands in Boston, New York, DC, and recently Denver. You reserve a car in advance by phone or by the web. The zipcar density in Boston/Cambridge is so high that I have never been unable to find a car nearby when I needed it.
It also looks like there are a few car co-ops in the orginal poster's area:
http://www.carsharing.net/where.html
While this is sounding like a bit of a love story, I should close by saying that I used to own a car in the city and the insurance payments alone were murder, (not counting the gas a maintainace costs). And every major car repair was the cost of a new bicycle, so now I just bike and zipcar everywhere.
Managers already do this. Many companies put all their employees on web proxies for exactly this reason. I have friends that work in large companies where it is a known fact that managers review
1) Page views
2) Attempts to view blocked pages
3) Email with questionable content
4) Usage statistics on mail servers
As a result, I've helped those friends use web proxies and and SSL to add privacy to their workstations. putty port forwarding and a remotely running squid are their best worktime friends.
That's what i'm trying to do with my web page. It's in french (i'm a french canadian) but it will be release in english soon. I need people more experienced than me in Linux, if you are interested or know someone let me know.
Peruse my site at: http://pages.infinit.net/linus99