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Its 1% inspiration, 99% persperation.Actually, that is optimistic, its more like .0001% inspiration. In fact, as a practical matter, many discoveries are small leaps, innovations based on well known stuff, sometimes combining it in previously unknown ways. Its worth talking about a company here like California Cooler -- that company was founded by two guys who liked to mix wine and juice for their volleyball games on the beach. They invested $10,000, and within three years they grossed $200 million. See, everyone thinks it is the high tech companies that make money, but in reality, nearly any business can. My favorite thing is to read from Kaplan "An Empire Wilderness" about the changing demographics. Think about how the US is changing -- we are becoming a hispanic/asian country, blacks are getting squeezed out and whites are losing their majority status. Most of that will happen within the student's lifetime. And you think the 20th century was a ride! 1. You get wealthy by accumulating wealth throughout your lifetime. There is no substitute for getting a degree, marrying someone with a degree, and living on 75% of your income. 2. You can't ever stop learning. You might think book reports are drudgery, but you would be surprised how often in the real world you have to write book reports. The difference between being an entrepreneur and being a successful entreprenuer? The ability to seek the input of others. My suggestions: - Besides being the only way to get truly wealthy, being an entrepreneur is also a great way to go flat broke. - The fundamental skills they are getting now are crucial to being a success later. PAY ATTENTION in class, never hesitate to ask a genuine question, and constantly request that the teachers show how what they are teaching relates to real-world situations - even if it is just to help abstract thinking. - Learn to recognize opportunity, and differentiate it from "get rich quick." When something isn't working well, do you have a better way? Do you look at problems as a way of making money by providing the solution? - Learn to boil problems down to their essential elements, not get bogged down in flash, noise and distractions. Learn to see through the BS. - 3 part secret of life 1. Everyone can do something really well. Being in school is the best opportunity to find out what that is. Don't waste it. 2. The lucky ones not only find that thing, but find that they really LIKE doing that thing. In other words, it isn't much use being good at something you are bored by or just hate doing. Find what you love to do, and think is really cool. Explore that as much as possible in and out of school. 3. The REALLY lucky ones get to do something they love and they're really good at, AND get a lot of money for doing it. Musicians, for example, are kind of entrepreneurs, in that they may write, perform and sell their music. Or, get by, muddle through, punch in and out each day for the rest of your life and wonder where you went wrong... There are two kinds of magicians (people). Those who turn shit into money, and those who turn money into shit. You can realistically expect to make 100k a year if you are only working for yourself. (That implies your at the top of your game) Show them how leveraging human resources can make them an exponential amount of money. Tell them to make more money than they spend, and make it known that it takes a substantial amount of risk to do your own thing. Tell them to start a nestegg. (13 is a great time to start saving) You can save 100,000 by college easily from age 13 if you work a business part time and aren't dumb. Last, but not least, break the news that 50 mil is rarely made b

Ten commandments

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Words to live by, but not to die by
0.  Anything tedious can be automated
1.  Precision counts
2.  Doneness includes documentation
3.  Take time to be flexible and scalable
4.  Don't speculate, measure
5.  Simpler the better
6.  Done is better than perfect
7.  Tools that do one job and do it well
8.  Release early, release often
9.  Don't get bogged down by preconceived notions/Avoid making an
    ass out of you and me
10. All cables must be labelled
11. Be verbose. Be very verbose.
12. Information wants to be free
13. Illegitimi non carborundum
14. Kickass!


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Illegitimi Non Carborundum

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Illegitimi Non Carborundum
"Don't let the bastards grind you down"


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db via email

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populate a database with email


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Setting the time on linux

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ntpdate xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx


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misc links

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Email Reminders - Summary
An Email reminder system using Perl, PHP, and MySQL. This package consists
of 1 perl script that gets run by cron, 1 PHP script for database insertion,
and the reminder database. Great for the absent minded sys-admin.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/emrem/


Addquote
http://www.snipe.net/code/scripts/

bunghole - learn to make a link db
http://www.ravencrypt.com/bunghole/

mailman
http://www.list.org/

good stuff
http://9mm.com/philez.html

This might help
http://www.htnews.org

GNUSearch
http://www.cnhtech.com/~hfa/


Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument
2001-01-05 16:42:57
http://pigdog.org/auto/mr_bads_list/shortcolumn/1914.html

http://sources.redhat.com/gnats/


Welcome to YakTrack, a lightweight, open-source issue-tracking database
system written in Python. Begun as a project for my Masters' in Software
Development and Management via Rochester Institute of Technology, YakTrack
has grown into a tool of some utility. From this page, you can visit the
YakTrack Sourceforge project page itself, browse its online documentation,
or examine the sample database. Enjoy, and if you have any suggestions,
please feel free to list them!
http://yaktrack.sourceforge.net/


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