by alec on September 23, 2002
Free Software, at Least to a Certain Point. The free software foundation holds a dinner and passes the hat, collecting $6,000 to keep the thing going. Why? "Mr. Stallman’s point, now supported by many thousands of programmers worldwide, is that software becomes better when more people can work on it. Recently, several companies, including I.B.M., Sun Microsystems and Red Hat, have started trying to make money on that premise by selling software and technical support for Linux, the main competitor to Microsoft’s Windows."
This is just so much baloney. Linux is demonstrably not better than Windows. It’s more difficult to use, supports fewer devices, and uses an outdated kernel architecture (even Linus admits that he should have written a microkernel). Furthermore, a business built on service margins cannot compete effectively with a business built on IP margins. Red Hat is still in business is because they live off the good will of the open source programmers that aren’t on their payroll.
by alec on September 23, 2002
Today’s the beginning of my new workout regime. After a summer of complete and utter laziness, accompanied by the consumption of much fine wine, I weighed myself on Saturday AM…. 187 lbs with a body fat percentage of 24.5% – I have one of those funky Tanita scales that measures not just how heavy you are, but also what your actual flab content is. It’s not totally accurate — drink too much alcohol the night before, and the next morning you will find yourself retaining water and artificially depressing the BF reading. (Hmmm… booze and get skinny… maybe there’s something in that!)
The goal is to be below 20% body fat. So, it’s back to the weights, and the treadmill. I am currently carrying approximately 45 lbs of fat. If I can get to 170 and 20%, I’ll be carrying 34 lbs of fat. That’s 11 fat lbs to get rid of, and at 3500 calories per pound that translates into 38,500 calories to burn, or roughly 77 days of 500 calorie workouts on my treadmill. Realistically, if I can work out 4 times a week, that means 20 weeks of work, or 5 months to get skinny.
