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Posted over 12 years ago
During this hack week I worked on making LibreOffice build also against the MacOSX 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 SDKs. We had some support for that in the configure.in already, but it had apparently never been tested what then happens if one actually tries ... [More] something other than the 10.4 SDK.Mostly, with some changes here and there, and except for 10.7, I got it to work, and also the resulting LibreOffice built against the 10.6 SDK seemed to work.Building against the 10.7 SDK fails because some APIs that were deprecated already in 10.4, but the Mac code in LibreOffice still uses, have now then finally been removed in the 10.7 SDK. This shows the sad state of our Mac code.I also experimented with building against the 10.6 SDK but with MacOSX 10.4 as the target OS API level. I didn't get such a build to finish yet, but I am continuing on it in the background. The idea here is that if it would be possible to build LO to run fine on 10.4 even if you build it using the 10.6 SDK, we could get rid of one requirement for our (at least Intel) Mac build that is getting more and more silly: That you need to install the old Xcode 3 (with 10.4 and 10.5 SDKs) in addition to, or instead of, the current Xcode 4 (with 10.6 and 10.7 SDKs). [Less]
Posted over 12 years ago
Took babes to school to spare J's foot. Chewed mail, setup Windows cross-compile on my main development laptop, and wondered if it could be shared with a native Linux compile to save space; interesting. Finally got to splitting out the ... [More] fixes Markus needs for unit testing macros during the build. Lunch, back to build fixing. Enjoyed Alex's app bundle prototype, looks good. Freedom in Christ course in the evening. [Less]
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I started going to gym about three years ago. I consider that I am still a beginner, I can not give advices, for that there are personal trainers, nutritionists, …. Here I put some ideas which I learnt during these three years of tryings and ... [More] experimenting different things. What it’s working for me maybe it’s not working for you, or vice versa, that’s why you have to try and see how different exercises, diets, drinks, affect your body. My gym training is additional and complementary to my martial arts training, and I also have a full time job and a family, so, I don’t have time to spend hours every day in a gym, that’s why maybe some exercises are not suitable for everyone or maybe they are “lighter” for some people. Let’s start first with calories: I don’t count calories, honestly, I don’t have time for that, perhaps a personal trainer will do that for you, but for me it’s simple: want to build mass? Eat a lot of good foods including protein and lift heavier weights and lower reps (stay in 7-12 reps range). want to lose weight? Eat right and don’t overeat, and exercise. Cardio: bike, running, swimming. drink a lot of water and rest. See “Rules” section below, for more. Supplements: First, you need to get your daily food right, that is key. In general, a decent multivitamin and omega 3 fish oil supplement daily, will help. Regarding the protein powder, personally I don’t take but if you can not cover your necessary protein amount per day from real food, a protein shake will help to accomplish that, but keep in mind that it’s just a supplements and it’s not, should not be, a meal replacement. Rules to follow: don’t miss the breakfast. eat 5-6 small meals per day instead of 3 big meals (don’t get hungry). eat about 2g protein per kg of bodyweight (ex. for 75 Kg bodyweight you need about 150 g protein). distribute your protein intakes over 5-6 meals. be patient, you need a lot of hard work and proper nutrition for your muscles to develop, don’t focus on final result, enjoy the process of bodybuilding and the results will come in time. be consistent in your training and don’t skip training sessions. focus on your training, don’t vast your time at gym discussing with the other people. keep the training session around one hour including 10 minutes warm up at the beginning and about 10 minutes stretching at the end which is very important, as well. drink water and rest, you should sleep about 8 hours per night. listen to your body, it will tell you if you overtrain and if you need more rest to recover. focus on compound exercises which will work many muscles groups at the same time. Pre/Post Workout: about 1.5 – 2 hours before training I usually have some carbs and cottage cheese. about 30 minutes before, I have a banana to fuel my workout. during the workout I have plain water. immediately after my training I have a banana and 500ml Chocolate Milk (about 48 grams carbs and 20 grams protein). It’s a very good recovery drink and the ratio carbs/protein is also good, and it’s way cheaper than “commercial” recovery drinks. in about one hour after, I have a full meal with complex carbs (pasta, rice, potatoes) and protein (chicken, turkey, fish). My Customised Gym Program (Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday): Note: where I have something like Ex1/Ex2/Ex3 it means that I alternate them, depends how I feel that day. Warm up: slow running, jumping and flexibility exercises for about 10 minutes Tuesday (Chest/Back/Abs&Core) Chest 1. Bench Press / Pec Deck Machine / Dumbbells Fly / Push Ups 2. Incline Bench Press Back 1. Bent Over Barbell Row 2. Seated Cable Row / Lat Pull Down / Pull Ups 3. Dumbbell Shrugs Abs 1. Crunches/Sit Ups 2. Hanging Leg Raises 3. Hanging Knee Raise 4. Lying Floor Leg Raise 5. Russian Body Twist Core 1. Plank 2. Side Plank 3. Cat-Camel 4. Hand-Leg Diagonal Stretch Thursday (Legs/Arms/Shoulders) Legs 1. Lounges 2. 45 Degree Leg Press 3. Leg Extension 4. Leg Curl 5. Optional: Good Morning / Deadlifts / Squats (very good compound exercises which will work many muscles groups at once, but dangerous for your lower back, spine and knees if you don’t have the proper form or/and the weight is to much). I marked them as “optional” because usually I don’t do them, only sometimes. Biceps 3. Chinups 4. Standing EZ Barbell Curl / Standing Hammer Curl Triceps 3. Cable Triceps Extension / Dips Shoulders 1. Dumbbell Lateral Raise 2. Military Press (Dumbbells/Barbells) 3. Dumbbell Front Raise 4. Reverse Dumbbells Fly 5. Dumbbell Front-Lateral Raise 6. Clean Press (take a barbell from the floor, lift it above your head. Useful for Shoulders: main: legs, lower back, triceps: secondary) Saturday (Abs&Core&Stretching) Abs 1. Crunches/Sit Ups 2. Hanging Leg Raises 3. Hanging Knee Raise 4. Lying Floor Leg Raise 5. Russian Body Twist Core 1. Plank 2. Side Plank 3. Cat-Camel 4. Hand-Leg Diagonal Stretch I finish each training session with about 10 minute of stretching. During the weekend, sometimes depends how I feel, I am going for about one hour: soccer, swimming, running, tenis, table tenis or cycling. Some useful and interesting articles, links, in no particular order: - a very nice  website with A LOT of information, videos, recommendations, … http://www.scoobysworkshop.com/ - and also a lot of information on their forum: http://www.askscooby.com/ http://www.muscleandstrength.com/ - and their forum as well: http://www.muscleandstrength.com/forum/ http://www.askscooby.com/basic-techniques-36/the-bible-of-weight-training/ http://www.askscooby.com/nutrition-39/protein-faq-many-answers-to-the-common-questions/ http://evilcyber.com/nutrition/how-to-use-protein/http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/what-are-good-sources-of-protein-wrapping-it-up.html http://www.extension.iastate.edu/nutrition/sport/carbohydrate.html http://www.rosstraining.com/articles/strengthtraining.html http://www.rosstraining.com/articles.html http://speedendurance.com/2010/08/11/weight-training-reps-intensity-and-benefits/ http://www.holygrailbodytransformation.com/how_many_reps_to_gain_muscle.shtml http://www.bodybuildingsecretslive.com/four-no-fail-principles-for-quick-and-easy-weight-gain/ http://www.smart-strength-training.com/protein-per-day.html http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/maki1.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_(nutrient) http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?t=42333 http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/diet.html Here a few articles to read about chocolate milk as recovery drink, very interesting read: http://www.ultimatecrossfit.com/2011/02/24/chocolate-milk-the-best-post-workout-recovery-drink.html http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/recipes/healthy-eating/superfoods/chocolate-milk-after-workout/ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/24/health/webmd/main1342839.shtml http://www.aldenteblog.com/2009/02/chocolate-milk-is-the-best-recovery-drink.html [Less]
Posted over 12 years ago
The 2011 openSUSE Board term is soon coming to an end. In the last few project meetings as well as at the conference, the board has called for people to step up for the Election Committee. Five openSUSE contributors have offered their help and we’d ... [More] like to introduce them to you. The team The openSUSE Board is proud to welcome the following members of our openSUSE Community as this year’s Election Committee: Izabel Valverde Kai-Uwe Behrmann James Mason Kostas Koudaras Thomas Schmidt The job In the coming days and weeks, this committee will act independently to implement a formal plan for the oversight and election of a new Board for the 2012 term.  Currently, three board seats will be up for election. These seats are currently held by Rupert Horstkotter, Pavol Rusnak, and Bryen Yunashko (whose seat is vacated due to term limits.) The Election Committee will announce the nomination process and election period as part of the election plan. Please stay tuned for further news from the Committee itself. We are sure this team will perform its duties to the best benefit of the openSUSE Project and we look forward to an exciting election term and seeing many openSUSE Community members stepping up as candidates in the upcoming election. Sincerely, The openSUSE Board [Less]
Posted over 12 years ago
First what does self-defence mean? Check wikipedia webpage here: Favourites of mine: Karate: I would like to say that the style doesn’t matter, being Shotokan, Kyokushin, Ashihara, …. Any style is very good, any style includes strikes, blocks ... [More] , sweeps, some throws, and will cover all the fighting ranges, so, what really matters is how you train and where you train. You have to find a good dojo (school) with a good instructor and give everything you can and you will become a good fighter. Jujitsu (Jujutsu): Here I am discussing about Jujutsu (Japanese Jujitsu, German Jujutsu, Connelly Jujitsu …) and not about Gracie Jiu-jitsu. I mean standing up Jujitsu, and not Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.  Jujutsu is a complete style with everything you need for self defense (strikes, throws, locks, chokes and many more), also including weapons training, sticks, knife, but depends on each school what they will teach most of the time, so find a good school where you can train everything. If you want to see the differences between Brazilian Jiujitsu and Japanese Jujitsu check these links: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. Hapkido (Combat Hapkido): A great martial art for self defense, but it’s very difficult to find a school where they will not train jumping kicks and any kind of fancy stuff which will not work in a self defense scenario. Most of the time they will teach you Taekwondo with “hapkido taste”, so please be careful when you chose your school. That’s why I mentioned Combat Hapkido, because it is Hapkido without fancy stuff and with something more added from different styles. Modern Arnis: If you want to focus on weapons training but also the techniques can be applied without weapons, then, this martial art it is for you. Modern Arnis has a lot of techniques added from Small Circle Jujitsu very nice blended with their original techniques. It’s fun to train and a very powerful martial art. Krav Maga: It was designed for war, literally, but what is taught to civilians it’s a striped down version of the Israel Defense Forces’ original hand to hand combat system. Will give you the knowledge to defuse a situation quickly. It’s dirty but effective. Krav Maga is a principle based system, not a technique based system. One of the main goals of Krav Maga is to develop a strong fighting spirit, to never give up, and do what it takes to win. Wing Chun: Is a concept-based Chinese martial art and form of self-defense utilising both striking and grappling while specialising in close-range combat. I am a big fan of cross training. As you know from my previous posts, I am training in Shotokan Karate and Connelly Jujitsu, but any time when I have the chance, possibility and opportunity to train or attend a seminar in a different martial art style I will do it. You can take a lot of useful information from any kind of martial artist and incorporate in your training. But anyway, you should know and decide at some point which one is your main martial art because you will not be able to really advance in all of them, or if you are a beginner, different martial arts styles with different concepts will just confuse you. Just be careful. The above mentioned martial arts have and cover some ground fighting techniques, or better said, they have some escapes from the ground to be able to bring the fight as standing up as soon as possible. In a self defense situation you may be facing more than one attacker, and the ground would not be a safe place to be. Fighting on the ground is not an option for self defense but you need to know, anyway, some basic techniques, escapes, …. If you really want to be master in ground fighting then Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is the way to go, there is no alternative way. If you want to be a “complete” fighter, then you should consider to cover every range of fighting, this usually means that you need cross training. For example if you like grappling, Judo or Gracie Jiujitsu, then you should also consider to train in a striking martial art, for example, Muay Thai, KickBoxing, Boxing or even Taekwondo. There are many other martial arts that could be very effective for self defense, as well, but I don’t have to much experience with them or sometimes is not an easy task to find a good school (JKD for example, usually they will teach you Kickboxing and will call it JKD). Here are some of them: Jeet Kune Do, Vale Tudo, Aikido Yoshinkan, Brazilian Jiujitsu, Sambo, Systema, Kajukenbo and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). A lot of people will tell you that MMA is the most effective, the most dangerous, the coolest martial art in the world, the best for self defense but check this post/article, as well, before thinking of that. Keep in mind that some of them are NOT complete systems of self-defense, for example Judo, Sambo, Taekwondo, Gracie Jiujitsu, because they will not cover all ranges of a fight. So, what style should you choose. That is a very difficult question to give an answer because there is no such “universal” style. If it would be, than everyone would train in that style I suppose, every military and police academy would be using the same one, that’s why every person chooses what it’s most suitable for him. What’s the best car? What’s the best food? There is no answer to these questions. The style is not important, what matters is how good your instructor is and how you train. The style is secondary, they all have there pro’s and con’s there are no superior styles. Its the person that has the ability to fight not the style. If you want to learn a complete system, even if it will take a full decade of dedicated practice to become good, then Jujutsu, Aikido, Hapkido, Modern Arnis, … is for you. Any complete system of martial arts include: kata, weapons training, multiple attack training, conditioning, and of course philosophy. That is why it takes so long to become good in a complete system. If you want to learn something faster, and to be able to defend yourself in a few months (6-8) then you need something like Krav Maga or a similar military hand to hand combat style. The soldiers don’t have years to learn how to fight and survive, they have just a few months, that’s why their “style” is what you can learn quickly and will be more combative, brutal and dirty. For police and law enforcement officers the most suitable martial art would be a blend of working techniques from Judo, Aikido, Jujitsu, Modern Arnis, because they are not allowed, usually, to kick and punch a suspect. They should use locks, holds, … to restrain the suspect. So, choose a school with a good instructor that incorporates all aspects of self defense, train hard and have an open mind, that’s what matters. [Less]
Posted over 12 years ago
rlihm: Workflow: obs-wc2 Package Management on Flickr. October 2008 I worked on a new OBS Webclient UI. This in one of the Workflows I made for it … today, 2011 we still have the “good” old OBS Webclient. The only change that happened is, that it ... [More] wares now The Bento Theme … which got influenced by my work for Webclient 2. awesome specification work! [Less]
Posted over 12 years ago
Parents arrived for breakfast, and dropped lots of good things off, on their way up north to Yorkshire. Got to work, chewed mail, chat with Holger. Helped comfort & take J. to the Doctor's after an unfortunate garden-fork, foot ... [More] collision. Worked away at debugging some unit test problems with Markus, seems CppUnit initializes and then de-initializes / re-initializes much of the LibreOffice core before/after each test. Encouraging in some ways, that we'd not noticed that before, re-worked things to fix some nasties. Dinner, out to visit DT in the evening. [Less]
Posted over 12 years ago
On the 15th and 16 of September 2011, following the oSC, the marketing team held a Marketing Hackfest at the SUSE headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany.I was asked to attend this event for several reasons aside from the normal Marketing related things ... [More] , two of which were the most important to me being new to this event. One, was to observe how the marketing team functions as a unit. And second, to hold meetings with different people to discuss certain issues with an outlook of solving them for the benefit of the openSUSE community. Moreover, many of us had a chance to further discuss (in person) initiatives started at the oSC, since we had a chance to digest them and come with some valuable input that was used to move things forward ;-)The first day, was quite chaotic for one who had never attended and/or understood the process of how the team administered their hackfest. There were some communication issues, which eventually turned the event into an understanding of organized chaos on my part ;-) Things started out slow, but by the second day many people had an idea of the workload and were producing some awesome ideas and collaborating together to help each other implement those ideas. On the last day in the afternoon, Amie Johnson (SUSE's PR Manager) gave us a quick presentation on press releases: How to do them and the format that should be taken into account. Amie was nice enough to offer the community help with PR by collaborating between the community and SUSE, so we can work together on leveraging the messages we both have in common. Given the circumstances and meeting place, we were able to have some other people from SUSE contribute, who were happy to join and help out also by demonstrating their commitment to the openSUSE community. So, Thanks to Jan Weber, Susanne Oberhauser, Michael Miller, Greg K.H, Alan Clark, Andreas Jaeger, and Amie Johnson for helping out and filling in the gaps were needed. Also a great big thanks again for the input and work performed by the marketing team and those that attended: Bruno, Francoise, Manu, Kostas, Stella, George, Izabel, N.B. Prashanth, Bryen, Jos, Andrew, Sebastian, and JDD. You guys did a great job coming up with new ideas, as well as, building on the current ones! Last, but not least, thanks to Jos for the Stroopwaffles (Dutch Treacle Waffles) and SUSE for the lunches, drinks and the use of there offices and infrastructure.Thanks Geekos for once again demonstrating the openness and collaboration that is so specific to the openSUSE community culture. Looking forward to help make one of the best, even better!!! [Less]
Posted over 12 years ago
Well, once again, I had a chance to meet a community, one of which, I have never met before ;-)I arrived at Zentrifuge on the 10th of September for the warmup to the oSC. Immediately after arrival, I was greeted with warm smiles, open discussions ... [More] , and cold beer ;-) No one knew who I was, but they all welcomed me. As the evening continued, I was witness to how the community also made sure that they welcomed everyone, once they arrived. This is pure class and I would like to say is very important to a newbie who is entering the community. This is one aspect where openSUSE makes the difference, since it is not practiced to this extent in many other communities. The first day: After a great evening of meeting various contributors, members of openSUSE and SUSE employees, and having great technical and non-technical chats, the first day of the event was kicked off. It was hot, not only the event, but the weather. Around 35 centigrade with a lot of humidity, so the speakers, like me, were really put to the test. I had the chance to meet many people in the openSUSE community and spend some time with them one on one to discuss their experiences and how they viewed the project. Furthermore, I met a few others who were not a part of the openSUSE community, but others within our ecosystem who were there to show there dedication to collaboration. I, myself, also held a workshop entitled "Introduction to Cross-cultural Communication, Collaboration and Conflict" which attracted quite a crowd and I am very please with all that attended, showed interest and gave feedback. You guys and gals are awesome and did a remarkable job!!!The second day: This is where the the fun and the heat started to both take their toll ;-) I made it a point to attend most all of the community track and also Greg KH's talk on Tumbleweed. The first BoF I attended was Ambassador Program: Current status, potential changes and inprovements held by Kostas and Manu. This was an interesting discussion on the current status of the program and what needs to be done to make the program more structured and what will be expected from new ambassadors when they join. The second talk I attended was Greg KH's talk on his initiative Tumbleweed. Greg is an excellent speaker and really has a knack for communicating technical things in a way non-technical people can understand. This is a major accomplishment in itself ;-), let alone his long-time appreciated contributions to the kernel. I learned that I practiced a couple of Greg's don'ts while using Tumbleweed and have since corrected those mistakes. Furthermore, I  would like to add that I had some discussions with Greg about some certain kernel modules and he was very helpful, took the time to research them and got back to me in a very short time with the answers. Thanks again Greg!!! The next workshop I attended was Pascal's Packaging, hands on. Unfortunately, things did not go according to plan in this workshop, due to a number of issues: The network was not working correctly, the heat was almost unbearable, and there were people of various different experience levels that attended making it very hard for the host to keep a steady pace. These things happen sometimes, so let's not shoot the messenger! The next BoF, I attended was Mentoring New Contributors, held by Vincent Untz. This was quite an involved discussion about how to build a structure for a mentor-ship program for new people joining. This is quite a complex topic, still under discussion of how to mentor, who will mentor (given the limited resources and time) and how this program will be implemented. Overall, I think we came up with some good arguments to help build the program and of course we are still in the process of helping build it. In Final, this was quite an involved day, aside from all of the private discussions I had in between these workshops and BoF, which also yielded some solid initiatives for cross-community collaboration. Definitely , a very effective day that gave a great overview of the status of the project.The third day: This day was quite ad-hoc, I hosted an open BoF to discuss issues/conflicts within the project and in our ecosystem. Thanks to all that attended and your input (for the sake of the issues themselves and trust, I will not write any details about this BoF). Furthermore, I attended BoF's regarding moderation held by Jos Poortvliet, and another held by Lydia Pintscher, which focused on how to get more women into openSUSE. The moderation discussion was interesting and always touchy subject, though we had the right people there to discuss. Thanks Henne, Pascal, Alan, Bryen, and Richard for your input and collaboration. We have come to agreement for a solid start to how we will approach this. This initiative should be implemented soon and IMHO all of the community will benefit from it. In final, last (not chronologically either) but not least was the BoF, held by Lydia Pintscher of KDE on her experiences and suggestions of how to get more women into openSUSE. This is a hot topic in all communities and IMHO, I believe it should be given more of a priority. We have come up with some things to build on and luckily have some of our own who have taken the initiative to continue the discussion and bring forth viable ideas. Thanks to Lydia, Pascal, Bruno, Stella, and Susanne for their suggestions and input. A special thanks to Susanne Oberhauser for taking the lead and initiative to build on the discussion. If any of you have any suggestions or would like to help, please contact her as we need your help to make openSUSE a more attractive project for women to become involved with. On the final day: I attended one BoF hosted by Kostas entitled "Do we need an ambassador mentorship program? This was also a very interesting discussion, as it, in my eyes, ties into getting women into openSUSE and also to the discussion about a mentoring program in general held by Vincent Untz. Mentoring is a something all organizations and communities need. We need people who can answer questions, have patience with newbies and overall be a go-to person who can refer a new contributor to the right team/person in the project to get their initiatives started and to simply get their questions answered. Hopefully, within the next months, we will have worked out all the kinks and have a workable ambassador mentor-ship program that works together with the overall project mentor-ship program, so we have a clear line of communication that is also reflected down to the mentees. Finally, I must admit, it was quite a wild ride for me ;-) I met and made some very good friends, got some great business contacts, had a chance to speak to many people individually to get a feeling of the overall health of the community, and also had time in the evenings to plan some social events. Thanks especially to Stephan whom was willing to take a small group of us on a tour of the Altstadt, be our guide, take us to dinner and drinks at a local brewery and not give up on us because we were late. Sorry for that Stephan, I know we broke the cardinal rule in German culture, we were late. It will not happen again. Thanks also to all those who attended. Thanks to those involved for the lunches, dinners and the fun we had after hours ;-) Oh, and who could forget, thanks to the Greek crew for providing their touch, getting people involved and most of all that Greek charm;-)In Conclusion, I would like to extend my assistance to the openSUSE project with helping with community development, leadership, communication and conflict. I have already initiated some cases on pending issues brought to my attention by several contributors and will be working together with those contributors to help find a solution that best fits their needs and the needs of the openSUSE project. Moreover, I would like to extend a hand out to the openSUSE board and SUSE, so that we together can build a better capacity for clearer communication, a clear process for handling conflict, a more diverse and international community and a more effective and healthy  community for all.Overall, you Geekos should give each other a big hug and a pat on the back!!! You are a very unique, open, and welcoming community, one of which on this level is quite rare in our ecosystem. I look forward to working together with all of you to make openSUSE even better!!! [Less]
Posted over 12 years ago
The first one will be next week, October 15-16, in Hangelar (Bonn), the announcement is here organized by Budokan Black Eagle. As you know from my previous post there is an annual Connelly Jujitsu seminar in Wewelsburg, Germany, organized by JuJutsu ... [More] Dojo Dueren. For 2012 it is scheduled for January 26-29, the announcement is here. It’s a great opportunity to meet a lot of skilled people and enjoying the training with Sensei Connelly. For pictures from the last year seminar see my previous post, mentioned above. See you there! [Less]