It is now being developed by a company called Serenity Systems. They struck a deal with IBM to continue to develop OS/2 and release new versions under the name eComStation. You can down load a demo CD (70 MB iso) from the eComStation Web site. It won't install to a hard drive but is a bootable live CD version of the OS.
This is an over simplification of what is a very complex issue. While in theory it looks on the surface like all one needs to do is to cut down on the colorie intake to lose weight, in practice this simply does not work. The human body is a magnificently complex organism that has mechanisms in place to prevent us from starving. If all you do is try to eat less then your body will be triggered into "starvation mode" and will lower your metabolism and begin conserving energy. It will also in severe calorie reduced diets trigger your body to convert all food into fat and even consume lean body tissue since it thinks it is being starved. This is what many who have been on the "dieting roller coaster" experience when they go off their diet and then try again when the weight comes back. After numerous attempts at dieting it is actually possible to gain weight when consuming less (caloric content) than your previous maintenance caloric level. This has been a part of our genetic makeup for thousands of years to protect us in times of famine. In the past though, this was not as much of an issue as human beings were much more active. There is a modern day example in the US of a group of people consuming a relatively high caloric intake but experiencing little if any obesity. I have seen a report about Quakers in the US consuming many of the foods now labeled as fattening but not becoming "fat". Upon further investigation it was found that on the average Quaker men walked an equivalent of ~20,000 steps per day and Quaker women ~17,000 steps per day while the average North American walks the equivalent or less than 5,000 steps per day.
The best thing to do is not to diet (they simply do not work), but instead to lower your % body fat through a lifestyle change that incorporates better eating habits and excercise. It is best to increase calorie output through excercise than to reduce calorie input through severe calorie restricted dieting. The major problem is that on the whole our society (particulary in North America) has become more sedentary and we are not consuming as many calories daily as we should.
The proper way to lose weight is to lose fat, not lean body tissue (muscle mass and bone density) as one does by dieting and to increase lean body mass. Muscle tissue burns more calories even at rest than fat does. Dr. William Evans of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging reports that the average american loses 6.6 pounds of lean body mass every decade after age 20. This increases over the age of 45. Weight is a poor indication of health and fitness and fat becomes harder to lose as we age. This can be compounded if one also has diabetes since compromised insulin systems interfere with the process of converting food into sugar and storing it as fat.
Losing weight is simple...but it is not easy. Anyone who says it is easy has never experienced a weight problem.
Check out Slimdevices for what they have to offer. The server software is free and comes in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X flavours. The Squeezebox's are a little over $100 but you can you a browser, media player of a java Squeezebox emulator called Softsqueeze to play the music. It will also stream WAV, MP3, Ogg, Flac, Apple Lossless, AAC, WMA, and Windows Lossless files with the proper config. It won't play DRM versions of AAC or WMA files though. It supports synchronizing Squeezeboxes as well as does the Softqueeze software emulation. I am currently using the Slimserver software with the java Softsqueeze until I can get the case for a Squeezebox or two.
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It is now being developed by a company called Serenity Systems. They struck a deal with IBM to continue to develop OS/2 and release new versions under the name eComStation. You can down load a demo CD (70 MB iso) from the eComStation Web site. It won't install to a hard drive but is a bootable live CD version of the OS.
This is an over simplification of what is a very complex issue. While in theory it looks on the surface like all one needs to do is to cut down on the colorie intake to lose weight, in practice this simply does not work. The human body is a magnificently complex organism that has mechanisms in place to prevent us from starving. If all you do is try to eat less then your body will be triggered into "starvation mode" and will lower your metabolism and begin conserving energy. It will also in severe calorie reduced diets trigger your body to convert all food into fat and even consume lean body tissue since it thinks it is being starved. This is what many who have been on the "dieting roller coaster" experience when they go off their diet and then try again when the weight comes back. After numerous attempts at dieting it is actually possible to gain weight when consuming less (caloric content) than your previous maintenance caloric level. This has been a part of our genetic makeup for thousands of years to protect us in times of famine. In the past though, this was not as much of an issue as human beings were much more active. There is a modern day example in the US of a group of people consuming a relatively high caloric intake but experiencing little if any obesity. I have seen a report about Quakers in the US consuming many of the foods now labeled as fattening but not becoming "fat". Upon further investigation it was found that on the average Quaker men walked an equivalent of ~20,000 steps per day and Quaker women ~17,000 steps per day while the average North American walks the equivalent or less than 5,000 steps per day.
The best thing to do is not to diet (they simply do not work), but instead to lower your % body fat through a lifestyle change that incorporates better eating habits and excercise. It is best to increase calorie output through excercise than to reduce calorie input through severe calorie restricted dieting. The major problem is that on the whole our society (particulary in North America) has become more sedentary and we are not consuming as many calories daily as we should.
The proper way to lose weight is to lose fat, not lean body tissue (muscle mass and bone density) as one does by dieting and to increase lean body mass. Muscle tissue burns more calories even at rest than fat does. Dr. William Evans of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging reports that the average american loses 6.6 pounds of lean body mass every decade after age 20. This increases over the age of 45. Weight is a poor indication of health and fitness and fat becomes harder to lose as we age. This can be compounded if one also has diabetes since compromised insulin systems interfere with the process of converting food into sugar and storing it as fat.
Losing weight is simple...but it is not easy. Anyone who says it is easy has never experienced a weight problem.
Check out Slimdevices for what they have to offer. The server software is free and comes in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X flavours. The Squeezebox's are a little over $100 but you can you a browser, media player of a java Squeezebox emulator called Softsqueeze to play the music. It will also stream WAV, MP3, Ogg, Flac, Apple Lossless, AAC, WMA, and Windows Lossless files with the proper config. It won't play DRM versions of AAC or WMA files though. It supports synchronizing Squeezeboxes as well as does the Softqueeze software emulation. I am currently using the Slimserver software with the java Softsqueeze until I can get the case for a Squeezebox or two.