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Nope... I'm a complete danger without drugs...
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Long term fix a regular Yoga or any daily (at least 30 min) back stretch routine , after work.
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I feel like trying it...
Yoga looks calmed and useful... Soon we will move the office again (stressful times) depending on where we move I'll see if there is the option there...
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One source of back pain is weak stomach muscles - basic a continuous gentle stress to keep you a bit straighter with the wrong set of muscles.
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This can't be the reason...
You know what they say... chocolate tablet... I have it covered... I have melted chocolate... but is chocolate nevertheless...
I'm sure something will have been lost in the translation, but you get the idea...
Seriously you are right, I have to start moving a little and do some sport...
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I had terrible lower back/hip pain, finally got some physical therapy. They gave me exercises to strengthen the core abdominal and back muscles (to better support the weight of the upper body) and some stretches to loosen up those muscles.
It's worked wonders. Strongly recommended. I've went from sometimes being barely able to move to a pretty normal existence. Just occasional discomfort when I overwork that area (or don't keep up with my exercises).
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I have called one doctor close by... Let's see if afterwards I'm a new guy...
I hope you are right and I feel better afterwards...
Thank you!
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Strengthening your upper back (think lat rows and flys) helped quite a bit for me. (There are variations using a stability ball and weights if you don't have a gym). But you're less hunched over, which straightens your thoracic spine, which relieves some pressure on your lumbar.
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I guess so... I have to start moving a little...
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Any reason you can't just level the table?
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In addition to all exercises previously mentioned I find this one to be particularly helpful. With one correction, you should point your head in the opposite direction to your knee. The cutie on the video keeps looking up, without moving her head.
In general, any exercise twisting your spine (carefully!) and relaxing back muscle should help.
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The question is: can we educate the nerds of open-source?
So imagine this: You are working with a 3rd party who maintain an open-source system for your common customer... You have some code that talks to the API... The 3rd party upgrades the open-source project... everything fail apart in the most disturbing way...
The reason: The open-source API got new features... The new features are added with total overlooking of the old... No default values for new parameters... No API versioning... Nothing...
The cause: A lot of (sometimes too much) people with change-rights without the minimal understanding of the consequences of their actions... Granted - they write spectacular code (most of them), but they lack the minimal education to understand what public API is... Most of the time they not even understand why it is wrong what they have done, after all - it is open-source, so change it as you like!!!
And that's what holds back Linux to take over Windows...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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There are such open source projects, I can only recommend, stay away from them for commercial projects "that matter".
Many open source systems offer support licenses (open source does NOT mean "free to use" - don't forget that!) where you:
* Pay for the right to use it commercial
* Have a direct support line (<- who you're gonna call?)
* Get assistance even on code level if required
Teluu (pjsip) is a good example for that. This is a kind of open source that should be supported. Some anonymous garage projects are nothing I'd tinker with.
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After all these years I would add MOODLE to the list, the problem that it is the choice of the 3rd party...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Usually if you agree to pay someone .. things can happen...else go for a commercial supported version if you are having a support
contract with your client.
Caveat Emptor.
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It's actually not that much different than having some team in the company maintaining a proprietary closed-source API. Happens all the time where I work -- somebody else changes the API, and it breaks all the calls we're making to their service. There's no communication, no warning, no backwards compatibility, no versioning, nothing.
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Marc Clifton wrote: There's no communication
If it is in-house there is a lot of communication here - so it may happen only once... (we are small company)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So, the cat decides to throw up on the bed at 05:30 - fortunately, I managed to get him off while he was still "making the noises" so all I had to do was break out the carpet cleaning machine.
But ... there's no point in going back to bed, right?
Last night, the WookieTab was down to 8% power, so I left it plugged into the charger overnight. Unplug it, the screen lights up, and what do I see? "Getting windows ready, do not turn off your device".
Why then, Microsoft? Did you actually wait until it was no longer on charge?
Yes, it looks like it did from the percentage it eventually came up with.
OK, updates are important - BUT GIVE US A CHANCE TO DECIDE WHEN TO INSTALL THEM!
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Wow, it's not your day
Don't go out, wear a helmet. Above all, be careful today!
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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05:30 is a good time for the cat to puke - Friday was 04:00, and Saturday 03:30
We've stopped the new medication (oral Ibuprofen gel) since vomiting is one of the "adverse condition" listed and will hope it calms down. Hopefully, the AB's the vet gave him should be pretty much finished their work, and he won't need the temperature lowering effect of NSAIDs any more anyway. I'll be keeping a close eye on him, and he has a vets appointment booked tomorrow morning if I need it anyway.
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OriginalGriff wrote: oral Ibuprofen gel
cat cats take paracetamol?
It may cut down on the adverse reactions. (Does with many people.)
Of course ask the vet.
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Not a good idea at all - cats are very sensitive to paracetamol toxicity, the fatal dose is a trivial amount even allowing for the much reduced body weight!
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Oh, thanks, didn't know that. (Had heard aspirin bad for cats but not para - shouldv'e googled first.)
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OriginalGriff wrote: OK, updates are important
This is one statement I have long taken issue with, particularly as a product becomes more mature it is 100% commonly accepted delusion.
OK for win 10 there may still be some merit or even requirement for updates but for Windows 7 has actually not needed an update applied since before 2015, yet the common misconception is that every update must be applied lest it collapse into a steaming virus ridden non-functional system. Yes my own and many client systems have run with windows updates turned of since as early as 2014. (A few selective updates may have been applied, but not many).
Even the recent 'huge security threats,' wannacry and the like, were never threats except in a few uncommon installations, (and really should have been corrected at the network level, not the operating system anyway.)
The main only issue holding me back from adopting win 10, and advising clients to do the same, is [because of the update process]; the inability to ensure the system I suggest/provide to a client is and will remain stable
- no matter who provides nobody wants even the chance of something that keeps breaking as much as win10
- I don't want to be saddled with more support calls for something I didn't cause or suggest.
Those of my clients that chose themselves to deploy to 10, I advise them I will not provide immediate response support for operating system [caused] issues, and will charge heavily for support provided to remediate such. (If they want to pay me $500 an hour to reinstall windows 10 at my own pace and timing then go ahead, I won't do it for any less, I prefer they find another geek if it comes to that.)
My final advice to clients remains: stay on 7 with this summary: why the hell change if the current system is not broken, and windows 10 cons aside for them there are no pros; zero advantage, yes ZERO to deploying 10. They absolutely don't need it, nothing is gained.
The interface, although ugly, doesn't matter.
The "fastest" at starting, stopping, running doesn't matter (a few seconds during boot, who cares
- and BTW: it's no longer true anyway
The 'privacy' is not really an issue for me nor clients
- of course set minimal: to cut wasted bandwidth, not to worry about stealing information
The app store is a joke but that doesn't matter, it's their company applications that matter.
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