Clean breaks don't work - you need to work out a plan to reduce your intake. Use a couple of days to record a rough guide of your caffeine intake. Measure it in glasses of soda or cups of coffee. Then make a conscious effort to reduce it by a certain (small) amount each week until you remove it completely.
The real killer is the psychological addiction - people often go back to smoking (and such) not because of the nicotine addiction (as someone pointed out withdrawal only lasts a week at most) but because they miss the pyschological aspect of it (taking a break to smoke, smoking as something to break monotony and boredom). So as you are coming off the caffiene get some decaffienated herbal teas or other decaf stuff. If you feel the need, have one of those instead.
Your mileage may vary with this - different techniques suit different people.
That could easily put the makers of solid state MP3 players out of business...If it's true.
Thats true, but no more than the other miniature-hard-drive MP3 players out there. Just because they dont have the IPod branding dont discount the Creative Muvo2 or Rio Nitrus.
Let me expand a little. Much as the post below the parent suggests my original post was flamebait, it was not. Here's my reasoning (although I admit in retrospect it was not well explained and put forward).
If I took my parents machine and put a fresh install of RedHat 9 on it, it would take them about a week to re-learn everything. This is a conservative estimate.
So my parents now have a reasonable knowledge of Gnome with Bluecurve. Suppose we live in a world where linux is everywhere and M$ doesnt exist. They go off to work (they are teachers) and have to use KDE at school. This takes them more time to learn and I can't even begin to tell you how confused they would get having to use both. My parents are the average computer users: they barely manage Windows.
This is NOT geek Linux where you can twiddle the nobs and customise everything. This is USER linux and most users dont care about having choice, entirely the opposite in fact. My parents dont want choice they want something familiar to appear on the screen when they turn the machine on. If you could learn to use one GUI for linux and know that any other linux box would have that GUI, we would be a step closer towards linux on the desktop (which is A Good Thing).
I take the point about having GTK and QT libraries installed, my argument to that point was somewhat flawed.
I'm not interested that they chose gnome or KDE above the other - I don't care. I care that this choice has been made so my parents can turn on a UserLinux distro anywhere and get a familiar desktop - a standard set of widgets and feel.
In all honesty, while having a single interface to deal with would be easier.. OSS has allways thrived on the competition between similar projects
This competition also gives OSS its greatest downfall - there just arent any standards. You wanna write for QT? do x. You wanna write for GTK? do y. You wanna write for something else? do z. Someone needs to make an standardised API for all linux guis and stick with it.
Say what you want about M$ Windows, but it provided a standard. The ability to program on one GUI and reach 80% of people is fantastic.
I suppose if they focus very narrowly on one measurement of security, completely ignore script-level vulnerabilities, default settings vulnerabilities (such as root access for all users), and the demographics of the user population....[snip]
Tech savvy people use Linux. If you sat my mother down in front of Linux she'd open all the same email attachments and run all the same unsafe executables etc etc.
Although I agree that in general open source systems are more secure than closed source implementations, this is more to do with the people using such systems than the systems themselves.
Social Engineering security hacks anyone?
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The real killer is the psychological addiction - people often go back to smoking (and such) not because of the nicotine addiction (as someone pointed out withdrawal only lasts a week at most) but because they miss the pyschological aspect of it (taking a break to smoke, smoking as something to break monotony and boredom). So as you are coming off the caffiene get some decaffienated herbal teas or other decaf stuff. If you feel the need, have one of those instead.
Your mileage may vary with this - different techniques suit different people.
Thats true, but no more than the other miniature-hard-drive MP3 players out there. Just because they dont have the IPod branding dont discount the Creative Muvo2 or Rio Nitrus.
If I took my parents machine and put a fresh install of RedHat 9 on it, it would take them about a week to re-learn everything. This is a conservative estimate.
So my parents now have a reasonable knowledge of Gnome with Bluecurve. Suppose we live in a world where linux is everywhere and M$ doesnt exist. They go off to work (they are teachers) and have to use KDE at school. This takes them more time to learn and I can't even begin to tell you how confused they would get having to use both. My parents are the average computer users: they barely manage Windows.
This is NOT geek Linux where you can twiddle the nobs and customise everything. This is USER linux and most users dont care about having choice, entirely the opposite in fact. My parents dont want choice they want something familiar to appear on the screen when they turn the machine on. If you could learn to use one GUI for linux and know that any other linux box would have that GUI, we would be a step closer towards linux on the desktop (which is A Good Thing).
I take the point about having GTK and QT libraries installed, my argument to that point was somewhat flawed.
I'm not interested that they chose gnome or KDE above the other - I don't care. I care that this choice has been made so my parents can turn on a UserLinux distro anywhere and get a familiar desktop - a standard set of widgets and feel.
This competition also gives OSS its greatest downfall - there just arent any standards. You wanna write for QT? do x. You wanna write for GTK? do y. You wanna write for something else? do z. Someone needs to make an standardised API for all linux guis and stick with it.
Say what you want about M$ Windows, but it provided a standard. The ability to program on one GUI and reach 80% of people is fantastic.
I suppose if they focus very narrowly on one measurement of security, completely ignore script-level vulnerabilities, default settings vulnerabilities (such as root access for all users), and the demographics of the user population....[snip]
Tech savvy people use Linux. If you sat my mother down in front of Linux she'd open all the same email attachments and run all the same unsafe executables etc etc. Although I agree that in general open source systems are more secure than closed source implementations, this is more to do with the people using such systems than the systems themselves. Social Engineering security hacks anyone?