IANACT (I Am Not A Certified Trainer), but here is some advice.
Do NOT run down stairs. It puts a lot of pressure on your knees. Walking up stairs one or two at a time is a good exercise for the legs. (Make sure you are not favoring one leg by always starting on the same foot.)
A brisk walk from the public parking lot to the downtown office building is a good work out also. I'm not just talking about walking fast. Long quick strides. While you are walking think about what you could possibly do to walk faster without running. Also, try tightening your leg muscles while walking.
Get a pull up bar for your home and do pullups (both underhand and overhand grips) and also try the behind the head pullups. Don't worry if you can only do one or two. Just try doing them four or five times during the evening. Do them for a month and the end of the month you will probably be able to do a whole bunch.
I prefer crunches to sit ups. I heard that situps are bad for your back. If you do crunches, don't look at your bent knees. Look straight up and keep your eyes focues on an object. While you are doing the crunch keep your eyes focused on the object. You'll feel the difference.
Doing pushups and situps at work will not really help you unless you do a lot of them. My old rugby coach once said that a man would be in the greatest shape if he did three hundred pushups and ran three miles a day. I didn't do the running part, but I did do the three hundred pushups a day (actually in one hour) and got pretty strong.
After about two years of doing the pushup routine, I moved into an apartment building with a nice weight / exercise room and also a certified trainer. He taught me the ins and outs of lifting weights and exercise. I think aside from learning exercise technique, the next most important factor is commitment. Set some realistic goals. Commit to a certain amount of exercise a week and stick with it. If you want, get an exercise partner, but make sure that that person has the same commitment as you or else he or she will drag you down.
Here is my story. When I began attending college in the Fall of 1992, I was 6 feet tall and 125 pounds. I began playing rugby the following spring and the team secretly bet on how long I would last. The bets ranged from seconds to weeks. I beat them all (I didn't know about the bets until a few years ago.) This past spring was probably my last season playing rugby because of a knee injury that I sustained about 1 and a half years ago. Right now, I'm 6 feet tall and 190 pounds.
I'm not sure what your goals are, but what ever they are they can be accomplished. Just stick with it. Some guidance from a certified trainer may be advisable.
how well does QNX run from a first generation pentium (133mhz, no mmx)? it sounds like it does not need a lot of memory. the computer i'm thinking about is a 133mhz laptop, no mmx with 16 or 32 mb of ram. do they have a network install? this laptop does not have the ability to boot from cdrom. it does have a floppy that it can boot from though.
hyundai automobiles in the late 80s and early 90s sucked. they were the joke of the car industry for a while. they retreated and when they came back... well just look at the cars around you in a traffic jam, a lot of them are hyundais. who knows they may still suck, but consumers seem to be motivated to buy them.
lindows is a relatively young distrobution, but they have sales channels through tiger direct, walmart, kmart etc. their mission was to provide the average consumer with a linux operating system. they are succeeding more than failing.
these are two companies who a) had a bad reputation and managed to turn it around to become successful or b) a linux company which decided to focus on the consumer desktop market and is somewhat successful.
i can't really comment about caldera and the OS community being against it, but taking the two examples i have just given, it is clear to see that the problem caldera had was not just the OS community.
people of linux... i have read many posts today in which linux bretheren attack linux bretheren. i too feel many different emotions to this situation with SCO. the main thing that we have to remember that linux will survive, despite greed. linux will surve, despite SCO. linux will survive, despite microsoft. linux and open source survives and thrives because we believe in it. we spend our time nuturing it. we spend the air that we breath advocating it. linux is ours. nobody can ever take that away.
don't allow SCO to tear the fabric of our existence.
the ars technica article admits that the accuracy of the original column, which was written by the lindows CEO, may not be entirely based on fact. the slashdot editor ends the slashdot post with "PR ploy or reality, you decide." i'd rather read and discuss topics that are somewhat true instead of what could possibly be one man's effort to shape public opinion against microsoft for the benefit of a linux company that many slashdot readers don't really care about.
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I thought along these lines after the Columbia Space Shuttle Accident. I asked myself, if in 1969, if we (the USA) were able to men on the moon, then why haven't we (humans) been able to travel to other planets yet?
The answer is back then is that the nation had a common goal to put a man on the moon. It didn't really matter how much the scientists that made it happen were being paid, they did it because they had dreams worth fighting for. Today, without a common goal and money clouding our vision, we have no focus to send a person to Mars or other planets.
The parent post to this article reminds me of how I felt shortly after the Columbia accident. I believe Linux and Open Source software represent the dreams of many whose energy is focused on one common goal. In that way it is very similiar to the energy of the space program in the 1960s. SCO is the destroyer of dreams and again it is because of money.
Open source has the ability to put less fortunate people on a level playing field with others in the Global society. I remember telling myself this when the World Wide Web was first commercialized.
I believe SCO has a right to protect its IP, but it doesn't have the right to destroy the reputation of open source software. It should be aware that it not only suing IBM, but also destroying the dreams of the many, just so that the few can fill their mouths with left over cookie mix from the bottom of the mixing bowl.
Sorry for the rambling...
andrew
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from Harry Kim of Voyager Enterprise Technologies...
Today, SCO Inc. filed a lawsuit against former vice-president Albert Gore for inventing the internet, which is the most widely used vehicle to distribute the Linux operating system. Recently, SCO filed a lawsuit against IBM for donating UNIX intellectual property to Linux development. SCO claimed to be the owner of the intellectual property of UNIX, until Novell corrected their incorrect assumptions.
Al Gore, who was once attributed to saying that he had invented the internet, released the following statement, "Contrary to SCO's assertions, I, Albert Gore am not the inventor of the Internet. Not only would a quick check of Scientific Journals reveal this fact, but a review of the U.S. Congressional record confirm that I voted to pass the law in which the predecessor to the Internet was funded. To my knowledge, the law which help fund the DARPA NET did not make a party to inventing the next phase of the project which was the Internet. I believe it unlikely that SCO can demonstrate that I was directly involved in the scientific, financial or legislative development of the Internet. Apparently, SCO must share this view, since over the last few months it has repeatedly asked me to transfer my non-existent patents for the Internet to SCO. I have rejected these requests adamantly. Finally, I find it telling that SCO failed to assert a claim against the true inventors of the Internet or its predecessors."
SCO could not be reached for comment because it is still answering questions from yesterday's past quarter results conference call in which 250+ people listened to, which is more than their usually 7 to 10.
i don't think MS would be able to buy SCO or SCO Unix patents because the Justice Department would not allow MS to gain that much control of its only major competition.
OSOpinion.com has an article that offers a unique analysis of the SCO / Linux lawsuit. The "Strategy Backfire" section asks one simple question: if SCO new that Linux was infringing on their IP, then why did it keep distributing it in their Linux distribution? If they had distributed in their Linux distribution, then it would have been distrbuted under the GPL.
Today, SCO filed a lawsuit against SCO for selling Linux based solutions with Unix properietery code that it had contributed to the Linux development project. The lawsuit is for irrepairable damages and seeks an award of $10,000,000,000 and legal fees. The CEO of SCO had this to say, "We expect a quick settlement to this case." He also added that "With the settlement money and our recouped legal fees, we can move on to other Linux / Unix distributors, such as Santa Cruz Operation or Caldera."
it would have been a funny hoax if the company had taken the time to release another press release informing the public and the major news media that gave it coverage that i was a hoax. their hoax press release was released on April 30. the acknowledgement of the hoax was on May 12. so for two weeks, some I.T. analyst covering the story has been paid a salary to cover a hoax. so the wall street journal printed 1 million news papers covering this article (and now will probably have to write a retraction).
this hoax would have been funnier if MSN UK had on May 1 said, it was a hoax, but not two weeks after the initial press release.
"The Associated Press received confirmation of the project from both Microsoft Corp.'s Waggener Edstrom public relations firm and London-based Red Consultancy, which handles such work for the software giant in England."
A fake press release is one thing, but then you have people verifying the material.
Legal action may be harsh, but if i were the associated press, wall street journal or cnn or any other major news outlet that covered the story, i would not give MSN UK any coverage for a while. why should i waste my resources?
not that i can't take a good joke, but is their some legal precedence that would enable a person or entity to sue MSN UK? couldn't the media companies that took the time to research and publish (print, tv, internet media) this story could sue for lost revenue, lost wages, lost time, lost reputation (for printing a hoax? couldn't companies with analysts covering microsoft or the embedded devices market sue for lost revenue and lost time?
not that i would sue, but shouldn't their be some legal ramifications for this hoax? what if somebody could prove that MS stock price actually increased in the time directly after the announcement?
i've always wondered why the major memory chip producers did not create an OPEC type consortium for DRAM. they would be able to control the price of ram chips and hopefully hold it at a level that would be cheap enough to ensure brisk sales, while ensuring that they would make enough profit to a) keep their workers employeed all of the time, b) keep their production lines running at a certain capacity, c) be able to invest in memory chip technology.
the DRAM constortium could raise the prices on memory chips to a point where consumers would find it too expensive to buy chips, but a) the smaller manufacturers could offer cheaper products b) like OPEFC the consortium does not want to alienate its consumers through higher prices.
on another note, "Regarding the latter "conspiracy", the three main culprits appear to be Samsung and Hynix, both of Korea; and Taiwan's Nanya." though these three companies are geographically more closely located than the other major companies, it does not necessarily mean that they would want to devise a plan to price fix. don't airlines in the U.S. price fix also?
sun has been rumored as a target for acquisition. what if microsoft buys sun? what would become of java?
what if ibm buys sun? java would thrive, but i do have some concerns. when connecting a java client to a websphere ejb, the client jvm must be the same version (from ibm) as the webpshere jvm (from ibm).
On page 7 of the report, it says that they downloaded the RPM for SAMBA from http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net , which is fine, but they happen to give the RPM version and type:
Samba-2.2.7-1.7.3.i386.rpm.
I'm not a linux expert, but wouldn't it have been better to get the source and compile it for use with the pentinum 3 test server?
perhaps windows 2003 is better than linux / samba at file sharing to windows clients. why shouldn't it be? linux/unix should be better than windows 2000 at file sharing with linux / unix clients. if not, then we have problems.
here is an old article from last year comparing linux / samba vs. win2000.
jesus had his judas and now so does the open source community. the big question is, will the betrayal of SCO through the lawsuit be the catalyst for something big for open source? you must admit sco has unified the open source community against it, much in the same way microsoft had in the years before. only if we could use this unity to further our cause.
anybody seen "amongst friends"? three best friends from privledged long island get involved in low-key organized crime. the movie starts off with the narrarator lighting and taking a hit from a bong.
using the analogy of the victoria house as a software project. my house would have been condemned from the first day that construction was begun.
we have contruction workers, plumbers, electricians, etc who have no idea of what they are doing aside from two weeks of training and a manuals (which they refuse to read). (i must admit that i too started with a lack of knowledge, but have made an effort to increase mine by all means available.)
doctor. wait a minute, i'm starting to sound like my parents. oh no! i've turned into my parents.
on the serious side... i think i would tell myself to:
1) read the wall street journal everyday. 2) start lifting weights earlier in life (freshman year in college) 3) go to a college in or near a major u.s. city. 4) join the marines. after that, join the french foreign legion. 5) focus my energy 6) study 7) become a doctor or other high salaried professional 8) don't waste time downloading pr0n via modem (its much faster via broadband) 9) don't waste time or money binge drinking two or three times a week (as in college) 10) don't write poetry for women, it is a waste of time.
this reminds me of that one GI Joe episode when the captain of the USS Missouri turns his ship over to Cobra and they staff it with a bunch of their robot / androids. then the USS Missouri faces off against the whole Atlantic Fleet.
to fight my addiction to MUDDing (jedi mudd) in the early 90 to mid 90s, i adopted two simple rules for myself. i no longer played massive multiplayer network games and i only buy myself one video game a year.
i almost flunked out of college because of my weakness. i'm sure a lot of open source code has gone unwritten because of addiction to games.
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IANACT (I Am Not A Certified Trainer), but here is some advice.
Do NOT run down stairs. It puts a lot of pressure on your knees. Walking up stairs one or two at a time is a good exercise for the legs. (Make sure you are not favoring one leg by always starting on the same foot.)
A brisk walk from the public parking lot to the downtown office building is a good work out also. I'm not just talking about walking fast. Long quick strides. While you are walking think about what you could possibly do to walk faster without running. Also, try tightening your leg muscles while walking.
Get a pull up bar for your home and do pullups (both underhand and overhand grips) and also try the behind the head pullups. Don't worry if you can only do one or two. Just try doing them four or five times during the evening. Do them for a month and the end of the month you will probably be able to do a whole bunch.
I prefer crunches to sit ups. I heard that situps are bad for your back. If you do crunches, don't look at your bent knees. Look straight up and keep your eyes focues on an object. While you are doing the crunch keep your eyes focused on the object. You'll feel the difference.
Doing pushups and situps at work will not really help you unless you do a lot of them. My old rugby coach once said that a man would be in the greatest shape if he did three hundred pushups and ran three miles a day. I didn't do the running part, but I did do the three hundred pushups a day (actually in one hour) and got pretty strong.
After about two years of doing the pushup routine, I moved into an apartment building with a nice weight / exercise room and also a certified trainer. He taught me the ins and outs of lifting weights and exercise. I think aside from learning exercise technique, the next most important factor is commitment. Set some realistic goals. Commit to a certain amount of exercise a week and stick with it. If you want, get an exercise partner, but make sure that that person has the same commitment as you or else he or she will drag you down.
Here is my story. When I began attending college in the Fall of 1992, I was 6 feet tall and 125 pounds. I began playing rugby the following spring and the team secretly bet on how long I would last. The bets ranged from seconds to weeks. I beat them all (I didn't know about the bets until a few years ago.) This past spring was probably my last season playing rugby because of a knee injury that I sustained about 1 and a half years ago. Right now, I'm 6 feet tall and 190 pounds.
I'm not sure what your goals are, but what ever they are they can be accomplished. Just stick with it. Some guidance from a certified trainer may be advisable.
Hope this helps...
Andrew
how well does QNX run from a first generation pentium (133mhz, no mmx)? it sounds like it does not need a lot of memory. the computer i'm thinking about is a 133mhz laptop, no mmx with 16 or 32 mb of ram. do they have a network install? this laptop does not have the ability to boot from cdrom. it does have a floppy that it can boot from though.
hyundai automobiles in the late 80s and early 90s sucked. they were the joke of the car industry for a while. they retreated and when they came back... well just look at the cars around you in a traffic jam, a lot of them are hyundais. who knows they may still suck, but consumers seem to be motivated to buy them.
lindows is a relatively young distrobution, but they have sales channels through tiger direct, walmart, kmart etc. their mission was to provide the average consumer with a linux operating system. they are succeeding more than failing.
these are two companies who a) had a bad reputation and managed to turn it around to become successful or b) a linux company which decided to focus on the consumer desktop market and is somewhat successful.
i can't really comment about caldera and the OS community being against it, but taking the two examples i have just given, it is clear to see that the problem caldera had was not just the OS community.
people of linux... i have read many posts today in which linux bretheren attack linux bretheren. i too feel many different emotions to this situation with SCO. the main thing that we have to remember that linux will survive, despite greed. linux will surve, despite SCO. linux will survive, despite microsoft. linux and open source survives and thrives because we believe in it. we spend our time nuturing it. we spend the air that we breath advocating it. linux is ours. nobody can ever take that away.
don't allow SCO to tear the fabric of our existence.
just my ramblings...
the ars technica article admits that the accuracy of the original column, which was written by the lindows CEO, may not be entirely based on fact. the slashdot editor ends the slashdot post with "PR ploy or reality, you decide." i'd rather read and discuss topics that are somewhat true instead of what could possibly be one man's effort to shape public opinion against microsoft for the benefit of a linux company that many slashdot readers don't really care about.
I thought along these lines after the Columbia Space Shuttle Accident. I asked myself, if in 1969, if we (the USA) were able to men on the moon, then why haven't we (humans) been able to travel to other planets yet?
The answer is back then is that the nation had a common goal to put a man on the moon. It didn't really matter how much the scientists that made it happen were being paid, they did it because they had dreams worth fighting for. Today, without a common goal and money clouding our vision, we have no focus to send a person to Mars or other planets.
The parent post to this article reminds me of how I felt shortly after the Columbia accident. I believe Linux and Open Source software represent the dreams of many whose energy is focused on one common goal. In that way it is very similiar to the energy of the space program in the 1960s. SCO is the destroyer of dreams and again it is because of money.
Open source has the ability to put less fortunate people on a level playing field with others in the Global society. I remember telling myself this when the World Wide Web was first commercialized.
I believe SCO has a right to protect its IP, but it doesn't have the right to destroy the reputation of open source software. It should be aware that it not only suing IBM, but also destroying the dreams of the many, just so that the few can fill their mouths with left over cookie mix from the bottom of the mixing bowl.
Sorry for the rambling...
andrew
from Harry Kim of Voyager Enterprise Technologies...
May 29, 2003 - Salt Lake City Utah -
Today, SCO Inc. filed a lawsuit against former vice-president Albert Gore for inventing the internet, which is the most widely used vehicle to distribute the Linux operating system. Recently, SCO filed a lawsuit against IBM for donating UNIX intellectual property to Linux development. SCO claimed to be the owner of the intellectual property of UNIX, until Novell corrected their incorrect assumptions.
Al Gore, who was once attributed to saying that he had invented the internet, released the following statement, "Contrary to SCO's assertions, I, Albert Gore am not the inventor of the Internet. Not only would a quick check of Scientific Journals reveal this fact, but a review of the U.S. Congressional record confirm that I voted to pass the law in which the predecessor to the Internet was funded. To my knowledge, the law which help fund the DARPA NET did not make a party to inventing the next phase of the project which was the Internet. I believe it unlikely that SCO can demonstrate that I was directly involved in the scientific, financial or legislative development of the Internet. Apparently, SCO must share this view, since over the last few months it has repeatedly asked me to transfer my non-existent patents for the Internet to SCO. I have rejected these requests adamantly. Finally, I find it telling that SCO failed to assert a claim against the true inventors of the Internet or its predecessors."
SCO could not be reached for comment because it is still answering questions from yesterday's past quarter results conference call in which 250+ people listened to, which is more than their usually 7 to 10.
Funny +1
i don't think MS would be able to buy SCO or SCO Unix patents because the Justice Department would not allow MS to gain that much control of its only major competition.
just my ramblings...
i saw the sco's (SCOX) stock price climb over 50% of today's opening price. as of 11:32am est it is $2.11 up (or 44%).
if ibm is going to buy, i don't think their going to get SCO cheap.
just my ramblings...
OSOpinion.com has an article that offers a unique analysis of the SCO / Linux lawsuit. The "Strategy Backfire" section asks one simple question: if SCO new that Linux was infringing on their IP, then why did it keep distributing it in their Linux distribution? If they had distributed in their Linux distribution, then it would have been distrbuted under the GPL.
It is definitely worth a read.
Today, SCO filed a lawsuit against SCO for selling Linux based solutions with Unix properietery code that it had contributed to the Linux development project. The lawsuit is for irrepairable damages and seeks an award of $10,000,000,000 and legal fees. The CEO of SCO had this to say, "We expect a quick settlement to this case." He also added that "With the settlement money and our recouped legal fees, we can move on to other Linux / Unix distributors, such as Santa Cruz Operation or Caldera."
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it would have been a funny hoax if the company had taken the time to release another press release informing the public and the major news media that gave it coverage that i was a hoax. their hoax press release was released on April 30. the acknowledgement of the hoax was on May 12. so for two weeks, some I.T. analyst covering the story has been paid a salary to cover a hoax. so the wall street journal printed 1 million news papers covering this article (and now will probably have to write a retraction).
this hoax would have been funnier if MSN UK had on May 1 said, it was a hoax, but not two weeks after the initial press release.
"The Associated Press received confirmation of the project from both Microsoft Corp.'s Waggener Edstrom public relations firm and London-based Red Consultancy, which handles such work for the software giant in England."
A fake press release is one thing, but then you have people verifying the material.
Legal action may be harsh, but if i were the associated press, wall street journal or cnn or any other major news outlet that covered the story, i would not give MSN UK any coverage for a while. why should i waste my resources?
not that i can't take a good joke, but is their some legal precedence that would enable a person or entity to sue MSN UK? couldn't the media companies that took the time to research and publish (print, tv, internet media) this story could sue for lost revenue, lost wages, lost time, lost reputation (for printing a hoax? couldn't companies with analysts covering microsoft or the embedded devices market sue for lost revenue and lost time?
not that i would sue, but shouldn't their be some legal ramifications for this hoax? what if somebody could prove that MS stock price actually increased in the time directly after the announcement?
just my ramblings...
i've always wondered why the major memory chip producers did not create an OPEC type consortium for DRAM. they would be able to control the price of ram chips and hopefully hold it at a level that would be cheap enough to ensure brisk sales, while ensuring that they would make enough profit to a) keep their workers employeed all of the time, b) keep their production lines running at a certain capacity, c) be able to invest in memory chip technology.
the DRAM constortium could raise the prices on memory chips to a point where consumers would find it too expensive to buy chips, but a) the smaller manufacturers could offer cheaper products b) like OPEFC the consortium does not want to alienate its consumers through higher prices.
on another note, "Regarding the latter "conspiracy", the three main culprits appear to be Samsung and Hynix, both of Korea; and Taiwan's Nanya." though these three companies are geographically more closely located than the other major companies, it does not necessarily mean that they would want to devise a plan to price fix. don't airlines in the U.S. price fix also?
sun has been rumored as a target for acquisition. what if microsoft buys sun? what would become of java?
what if ibm buys sun? java would thrive, but i do have some concerns. when connecting a java client to a websphere ejb, the client jvm must be the same version (from ibm) as the webpshere jvm (from ibm).
just some ramblings...
andrew
On page 7 of the report, it says that they downloaded the RPM for SAMBA from http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net , which is fine, but they happen to give the RPM version and type:
.
Samba-2.2.7-1.7.3.i386.rpm
I'm not a linux expert, but wouldn't it have been better to get the source and compile it for use with the pentinum 3 test server?
perhaps windows 2003 is better than linux / samba at file sharing to windows clients. why shouldn't it be? linux/unix should be better than windows 2000 at file sharing with linux / unix clients. if not, then we have problems.
here is an old article from last year comparing linux / samba vs. win2000.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/News/1131114
jesus had his judas and now so does the open source community. the big question is, will the betrayal of SCO through the lawsuit be the catalyst for something big for open source? you must admit sco has unified the open source community against it, much in the same way microsoft had in the years before. only if we could use this unity to further our cause.
anybody seen "amongst friends"? three best friends from privledged long island get involved in low-key organized crime. the movie starts off with the narrarator lighting and taking a hit from a bong.
i think everybody can identify with the main character when he forgets the magic words. "Army of Darkness" rocks!
andrew
using the analogy of the victoria house as a software project. my house would have been condemned from the first day that construction was begun.
we have contruction workers, plumbers, electricians, etc who have no idea of what they are doing aside from two weeks of training and a manuals (which they refuse to read). (i must admit that i too started with a lack of knowledge, but have made an effort to increase mine by all means available.)
it is a mess.
andrew
doctor. wait a minute, i'm starting to sound like my parents. oh no! i've turned into my parents.
on the serious side... i think i would tell myself to:
1) read the wall street journal everyday.
2) start lifting weights earlier in life (freshman year in college)
3) go to a college in or near a major u.s. city.
4) join the marines. after that, join the french foreign legion.
5) focus my energy
6) study
7) become a doctor or other high salaried professional
8) don't waste time downloading pr0n via modem (its much faster via broadband)
9) don't waste time or money binge drinking two or three times a week (as in college)
10) don't write poetry for women, it is a waste of time.
this reminds me of that one GI Joe episode when the captain of the USS Missouri turns his ship over to Cobra and they staff it with a bunch of their robot / androids. then the USS Missouri faces off against the whole Atlantic Fleet.
to fight my addiction to MUDDing (jedi mudd) in the early 90 to mid 90s, i adopted two simple rules for myself. i no longer played massive multiplayer network games and i only buy myself one video game a year.
i almost flunked out of college because of my weakness. i'm sure a lot of open source code has gone unwritten because of addiction to games.
andrew