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...have the right attitude, it doesn't matter," he says. "Half the reason I got to know other groups is that I left my door open...
Where in the World is East Timor? East Timor is a nation of some 800,000 inhabitants located on a small island on the southeastern tip of the Indonesian archipelago, 400 miles north of Australia. The western half of the island had been a Dutch colony, and was therefore part of what became independent Indonesia after World War II. But the eastern half, which had been ruled for three centuries by Portugal, was given its independence with the collapse of the Portuguese empire in 1975. Indonesia invaded the country in December of that year and annexed East Timor...
...tried another flavor of the operating system, Open Linux 2.2, sold by Caldera Systems ($69). It comes with an application called Partition Magic, which is supposed to make it easier to run both Linux and Windows on the same hard drive. I was up and running in half an hour--but when I rebooted my system, I was unable to launch Linux, apparently because my hard drive is too big. (Don't ask. I consulted a long-time Linux user for help, and even he couldn't figure it out.) Since Caldera doesn't offer free phone support, I sent...
...investigation of B2B software, according to Dolores Marciel, a 16-year veteran of Adaptec and its vice president of corporate procurement. The company believed that a competitor planned to build a semiconductor-manufacturing plant (also known as a fabrication plant) on its premises, thereby reducing product-development time by half. "We needed to compete or we would get killed," says Marciel. Adaptec couldn't invest the time or money in building its own plant (which on average costs $1.3 billion and requires more than a year to complete), so the company focused on cutting the fat from the communications...
...sweat for a healthy heart. A major study on 72,500 middle-aged women finds that walking briskly for 30 minutes a day can cut the risk of heart attack up to 40%. That's about the same benefit as from jogging and other vigorous exercise for half that amount of time. A stroll through the mall won't do: you have to move at least 3 m.p.h.--or about a block a minute...