Here is a screenshot, or you can view the full site at adaptifier.com

Here is the first thing I learned:

DO NOT BUY A COMMERCIAL STARTER

They are a waste of money.

I have purchased 2 starters now.  One from a company that specializes in this kind of stuff, and the other from Craigslist but I believe it was purchased originally from a same or similar supplier.

My first commercial SCOBY failed completely.  Now granted part of this was completely my fault in leaving it in an area which was way too cold .

My second starter is going on a week, and is producing kombucha very slowly.

On the other hand, a SCOBY that I grew from a bottle of commercial brew is going STRONG and has already produced 1 solid batch, now onto the second.

Do this:

1) Go to the store and buy a bottle of “orignal” (unflavored) raw kombucha (I used GT’s Original) with the biggest, gnarliest jelly looking blob in it and lots of yeast & sediment.  Let it warm up to room temperature.  $3.99

2) Boil 6 cups of water.

3) Put 1/2cup of sugar in the hot water.

4) Steep 4 bags of black tea in the water and let it cool to room temperature.  Transfer to a jar.

5) Pour the blob, the yeast & sediment, and about 1-2 cups of the commercial kombucha into your jar.

6) In less than 30 days you will have a strong kombucha SCOBY, and about 2 bottles worth of kombucha that cost you $4 instead of $20.

Proceed to make more kombucha as you please.

And so on.

Most people make piss poor progress.  This is an observation I have made, but I have some interns working on some data to demonstrate this fact.  Look around though, are you seeing people making fantastic progress?  I bet not.

One year and 14 days ago I started my journey of training with the Gym Movement protocol.  I already knew that I would never need another program again, but of course only time can truly tell.  Many people just flat out said “Biofeedback training won’t work.”  Many people said that the gains would stop coming “in a year”.  Well, we can now confidently say they were all wrong.

Here are some numbers I pulled out of the training tracker database:

• Total pounds moved in 1 year: 5,030,523
• Deadlift increased from 450 to 562.
• Number of training sessions: 201
• Total working time: 110 hours (pretty small investment if you ask me)
• Average improvement per movement per session via blended metric: 46.4%
• Body composition changes: ~185 at <8% Body Fat.  Leaner & more muscular.
• “Cardio” – best KB snatch 3/26/2010: 35lbs 100 reps in 4.6 minutes.  Best KB snatch 2/14/2011: 62lbs 101 reps in 9 minutes.

I don’t know if the numbers speak for themselves or not.  I can tell you that the improvements are astounding.  I do not know of many people who are moving this quickly.

I’ve been on the same program for a year now. I go to the gym, I do what tests well.  I make everything easy.  I work within my limits.  I expand my limits.

But some of things can not be measured.  What value do I put on the fact that I never really have a “bad” training session?  How much value can be attached to setting new Personal Records every single time I train?  Studies have shown that strength training in general has a cognitive carryover – how much greater is the carryover when you are literally becoming better than you ever have been EVERY day?

If you are interested in training with Gym Movement there are a few places you can get started.  The road isn’t as well lit as it should be, yet.  But it will get better.

1. Read this Gym Movement introduction article by my friend Daryl.  He goes over basically everything you need to know.
2. If that doesn’t get you started you have 2 choices:
3. Start reading through the Gym Movement articles section on Adam T. Glass’ site. OR
4. Purchase Grip & Rip 2.1.  Of course, there is a cost to all the information being compiled and presented to you.  Don’t say you can’t get it for free though.

I’ve heard all sorts of arguments for why Gym Movement won’t work or why it won’t work for <insert population here> people.

Every day we get emails from around the world from people who are out of pain, stronger than ever, feel better than ever, etc and so on.  I now have a gym full of people who span populations from hardcore tri-athletes to middle-aged women who have never trained a day in their lives – every one of them is making perpetual progress with Gym Movement.

What’s your excuse now?

I competed in my first powerlifting meet today. It was the Minnesota Open under the USAPL federation. Here are some observations from the meet. These are all based on my opinion, so you’re more than welcome to take them with a grain of salt or ignore them completely. I will note however, that I destroyed everyone in my weight class and under in the deadlift by over 60lbs. My bench and squat were average, but surprise of surpises – I don’t train those lifts.

1) I watched people miss all 3 attempts. I don’t know who has coached these people, but there is no excuse to miss all 3 attempts. Last I checked the point of the game was to put the biggest total up on the board. If you get a big fat 0, you might as well go home. It’s really not that hard.

1. Pick a weight you know you can hit to put you on the board.
2. Pick a weight above that will give you a good score, maybe a small PR, but not a huge PR.
3. Either go for a PR, or go for broke and try a weight you’ve never done. You should have already posted a good number in #2, so this is bonus time.

I also watched guys literally get crushed by their 2nd attempt. Then what? You can’t go down. Do you go out and get crushed again?

It makes me wonder what these guys are doing in training. How do you not know you aren’t going to pull 611 after a 547 opener?  What are you going to do in #3?  Pull 630 which is 50lbs more than you have done in training?

I have never missed a deadlift in competiton.  I’ll say that again: I have never missed a competition deadlift pull.  Each and every time my 3rd attempt has been a new PR. When I used a periodization system I set up my training so that I would peak on competition day. Sure, I could have missed if I had a bad day, but more than likely I was going to get it. Now that I train with biofeedback & Gym Movement I know what day of the month I typically can set a new max on and I know what I need to do to improve my lift. Case in point, I had hit 550 in December. To hit 562 wasn’t going to require an act of god.

Oh, and dear reader who isn’t a lifter: these weren’t guys on their first meet.  They’ve probably been powerlifting for 10-15 years.

Which brings me to my next point:

2) If you aren’t strong enough, nothing you do in your 1 minute countdown will save you. I watched guys huff ammonia. I watched dude bros have their dude bro handler punch them in the chest. I watched guys rub chalk all over their singlet. I watched guys throw their headphones off their head. I saw screaming & yelling.

Not once was the chicanery associated with an epic performance. In fact I would say the association of extra nonsense was highly correlated to missed lifts.

Get your training right. Then go to competition and do what you have trained for. If you are not strong enough, go back and train some more. Putting on an Alpha Male show isn’t going to make you stronger. I won’t ever make fun of the weight anyone is lifting, but when you are beating your chest for a sub-2x deadlift I will make fun of you.

3) DO go out and compete in something. The highlight of the day was running into this granny that I know from the dog park. She is like 70 and told me she just “loves deadlifting”. Now that woman knows the way to my heart. She owns a state record in the deadlift for her class, in large part because no one else is competing. Do you hold any state records?

4) Don’t be a dick. I didn’t hear a lot of guys encouraging people they didn’t know. This 17 year old kid I met set an American Record in bench press and I don’t know that I saw one guy give him a high-five.

5) If you aren’t making progress, change something. I ran into a guy I competed with a couple years ago at a TSC. He pulled 455 at the time. I pulled 405. At the meet today I pulled 562, and he pulled something like 485. Something is WRONG if you haven’t put more than 50lbs on your deadlift in 2 years (unless you’re Andy Bolton, hi Andy). If you are the guy reading this right now, I want you to know I’m not trying to be a dick and I would love to have you come train with me. I just know that it is a classic example of the lack of progress most people see, and yet they continue “trying hard” thinking something will change.

The reason I post these updates is that I believe in leading from the front.  I think that if you are going to pay a professional to show you how to do something, they should be able to demonstrate that they are competent and able to do the same for themselves.  What exactly do I mean by that?

A few months ago I opened a gym, and tossed myself head first into the fitness industry.

So if people are going to come to me to learn how to improve themselves, I need to demonstrate to them that I am always moving forward, always getting better myself.  Believe it or not, this is not the norm in the fitness industry.  The point of this post isn’t to get into negative details about how other people do things, but suffice to say that it is a rare thing for a fitness professional to practice what they preach.

PReveryday (a Personal Record, every day) actually represents a lot of things, but the core of it is simple.  My friends and I share a belief that you can get just a little bit better every single day.  Is that a hard pill to swallow?  Just think about it for a minute.  What if you could get a tiny bit better at something every day.  How much better would you be in a week, a month, a year?

The thing is, if you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse.  It doesn’t matter what the subject is.  The only way to make sustainable progress is to always get better.  If your training program isn’t making you better every single time you train, it is making you worse.  There is no way around this.  If you blindly follow P90X, it will hurt you.  If you blindly follow your personal trainer at Lifetime, he will hurt you.  That is why every single one of my members at The Movement Minneapolis learns how to be their own scientist, their own best personal trainer, and how to PR every day.  Whether it be experimenting with their movement training, their diet, or their social environment, they all learn how to make themselves better every day.

So here is my challenge to you….try it.  Get better at something today.  Crush a sales call.  Find a new strategy to teach a kid something new (my mom uses this concept to teach kids who have never held a pencil how to read & write in English).  Set a PR in the gym.  Be a better boyfriend.  And then be proud of it.  Shouldn’t we be proud of our accomplishments, even the small steps?  I think so.

P.S. I want to write more specifically about the training side of things and why setting a PR every day is such a paradigm shift, but I’m going to save that for another post.

Fail: For one reason or another I feel this company will fail. Either a bad idea, bad execution, or a bad team. Failure is defined as either not doing great revenue a few years out, or not being acquired. Fire-sale asset acquisitions count as failures.
Hit: You’ll know it when you see it. These are companies either posting huge revenue, or getting acquired. Keep in mind I think some of these companies that will be Hit’s will not necessarily become a household name, but the technology or IP will be acquired for a gazillion dollars.

BUT this does: 1-888-440-6342

You call that number, press 7, and these idiots never call again.

The other day, Heidi Golff (your picture is so witty and cute with your golff clubs), when you used TwitThis to tweet about an article, you elected to follow me because I was the suggested user at the time. You specifically chose to put a check mark next to my avatar to follow me.

The today, much to my suprise, I see this tweet from you:

@ddn I am so sick and tired of your spamming me; I can’t wait to unfollow you. What a pain!!

And going to your Twitter page I see:

ddn is a royal pain in the you-know-what. if you follow him you get spammed like crazy in your cell phone.

So let me get this straight. You follow me by choice. Then I go on my merry way tweeting about things that are interesting to me or going on in my life, and suddenly I am a spammer pain in your ass?

• You followed me.
• You can unfollow at ANY time. You don’t have to “wait”.
• I’m very real, and don’t spam anything.
• You choose to have your tweets sent to your cell phone.

What in your right mind possessed you to take the time out of your day to write TWO tweets about what a pain I am, when it would take you less than a click to unfollow me.

Congratulations on being incredibly stupid. Shouldn’t surprise me you’re in real estate.

4.x+ Slice Upgrade Guide
Last updated: 7.21.05 11:00 AM

David Dellanave – ddn – projects – david

This was written entirely by myself from the steps outlined by AlphaWolf in his DDB post. I don’t claim to have invented this procedure, so save your breath. Hopefully this is a distillation of all the available information. A large amount of information is copied from my 4.x Installation Guide, that said thanks are in order to HUGE, rc3105, adh and others for their work on 4.0. I’d like to improve this guide, so any SPECIFIC suggestions are welcome. – ddn

Note that a 6.2 Slice Upgrade Guide exists.

Warning

As much as a step-by-step guide makes things both easier to understand and accomplish, you are still dipping into the realm of the unknown. For most people, TiVo hacking is a hobby as time consuming as any other hobby. Realize that what you are doing to your TiVo was probably not intended to be done. You may break it, you may lose your recordings (even if you’re not supposed to) and you may piss off your family. For an extra challenge, I recommend starting this process an hour before your teenage daughter wants to watch The O.C. This should only take about half an hour, leaving you with plenty of time. Or not. Keep in mind, other people love the TiVo as much as you do, and if you break it they will be pissed. The information presented here is a distillation of information, and all risks assumed are your own. – ddn

Assumptions

# There are 5 starting points to this guide:

5) You have a stock DirecTiVo and you are scared to modify the drive. Your best best is probably going to be a pre-hacked PTVnet replacement drive. You’ll spend some more money, but you’ll get a bigger drive and peace of mind of not having to mess with modifying your stock TiVo drive.

# This guide assumes you have a working knowledge of unix and linux. While I believe the steps here are fool-proof, it doesn’t always seem to be the case. This is not a tutorial, and I will not answer basic Unix questions. I did this in one day with tremendous previous Linux experience, and ZERO Tivo hacking experience. You will lose everything on your Tivo following this guide, bear in mind.

If you have no Linux/Unix experience, you will become frustrated if things don’t work exactly as they should. I suggest a beginner tutorial in Linux. It should get you started on the basic commands.

### You will need a USB Ethernet adapter to complete this and use all your new features. A serial cable is not necessary to complete this guide. However, if it doesn’t work a serial cable is mandatory for figuring out whats wrong. Get yourself over to 9th tee and get a TiVo Null Modem Serial Cable. Or make yourself one. Go get yourself a USB200M or USB10TX or similar.

#### I applied these steps to my SD-DVR40. This guide applies to both RID and Non-RID TiVos. This means it will work on an HDVR2 and similar. The commands in red can be skipped if you have a Non-RID receiver. There are other parts of the guide that could be skipped, but no harm can be done by doing everything (except the commands in red). Following this guide on a Non-RID receiver also sets it up for LBA48 (disks over 137GB). If someone wants to enumerate the models this will work on, please feel free to email me. Most importantly, it works on the uma6 revision boards.

##### This guide uses LBA48 kernels etc. Technically you only need to do this if you plan to use disks larger than 137GB. However, I know of no reason that using LBA48 with smaller disks would cause a problem, so there is no reason not to.

*** Hard to read?   Click here for fancy stuff around the commands.

Save the installSw.itcl file with ZZ. Then execute this command to install the 4.0.1b system. If there is an error here, STOP. STOP. STOP.


/tvbin/installSw.itcl 4.0.1b-01-2-240 # Watch the output to see where the files go. It will be hda4 or hda7



bootpage -p /dev/hda # (The result of this command will be /dev/hda4 or /dev/hda7. I will use hda4)
bootpage -P "root=/dev/hda4 dsscon=true console=2,115200 upgradesoftware=false"

# Check it again, does everything look good?
bootpage -p /dev/hda


10. FTP into the TiVo again. I'm not exactly sure why, but /var/packages gets wiped out during the installSw. I'll look into finding a better place to hold this stuff.


ftp 192.168.3.105 # FTP to the IP of the tivo
cd /var/packages/
put TiVo.Stock.311Ckernel.and.315dssappAV.AlphaWolf.tar.bz2

put lba48_2.4.18.px
put init_framework_hybrid.tgz


11. Mount the new TiVo root, and copy existing files over to it. Also takes care of dssapp for RID boxes.


mkdir /tivo
mount /dev/hda4 /tivo # Usually /dev/hda4 but you need to watch the output of the dbload to determine where it went
cd /

cp -Rfpd ptvupgrade/ /tivo/
cp -Rfpd /tivo-bin/ /tivo/
mv /tivo/tvbin/dssapp /tivo/tvbin/dssapp.orig
cd /var/packages
tar -jxvf TiVo.Stock.311Ckernel.and.315dssappAV.AlphaWolf.tar.bz2
cp dssapp /tivo/tvbin/
chmod +x /tivo/tvbin/dssapp


12. Copy the init (monte) framework and kernel.


cd /tivo/
mv /tivo/etc/netfilter-enable /tivo/etc/netfilter-enable.not
cp /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author /tivo/etc/rc.d/
mv /var/packages/init_framework_hybrid.tgz /tivo/
tar -zxvf init_framework_hybrid.tgz
cp -Rpd /init/ptv* /tivo/init/
cp /var/packages/lba48_2.4.18.px /tivo/init/vmlinux.px
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda6
dd if=/ptvupgrade/misc/vmlinux-311c.px of=/dev/hda3 # Copy the killhdinitrd'ed kernel to the boot partition
dd if=/ptvupgrade/misc/vmlinux-311c.px of=/dev/hda6
rm init_framework_hybrid.tgz


13. Say a prayer, if you're into that, and reboot the Tivo. If all is well in wonderland, you will boot up into 4.0.1b, which won't look a whole lot different. You'll have to check System Information to be sure. HMO and Music & Photos will be available, but we still have some steps to complete. Hopefully during bootup, your Tivo DHCP'ed an address onto your network.

14. Telnet to the IP of your tivo. You should get a bash prompt like:


bash-2.02#


Type:


mount -o remount,rw / # TiVo mounts the drive read-only, changes would not be applied to the disk. This remounts it read-write.
cd /hacks/
chmod 755 superpatch-4all-NutKase-0.7.1.tcl
./superpatch-4all-NutKase-0.7.1.tcl

14. Reboot. That's it. If you started from a PTVupgrade/PTVnet installation, you will already have TivoWebPlus installed. If not, you can add Tivowebplus and other hacks etc. Your local channels could take up to 24 hours to re-appear. Or, from a great post by AlphaWolf:

Also one more thing, if you find you've lost your local channels after you upgrade, the quickest way to get them back is to tune your tivo to one of your local channels, dial 1-800-DIRECTV, press 1, then press 711. If you are calling from your home phone then you don't even need to speak to a representative, and it'll take 30 seconds or so, and your tivo will go to the acquiring screen with like 85% complete. Once it finishes, your local channels will show up on the spot.

** Additional Things You Can Do **

• Add crond to automate running fakecall daily or other things. Keep in mind fakecall must be run weekly (or daily) to avoid the calling nag. Consider this mandatory, but it is not part of this guide. Explicit instructions courtesy of AlphaWolf.
• USB 2.0 network modules for improved speed. See guide
• Thanks to everyone who did the Free mini Macs offer. I got my mini a few months ago, and I love it.
• That said, I'd like to get my hands on an iPod nano. Thanks for helping me out.
• Change the hostname of the TiVo and the bash prompt accordingly. I like to do this so I don't do the right command on the wrong TiVo.

  
hostname "hostname of your choice without quotes" # Insert your hostname

  echo "hostname " `hostname` >>/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author # Just like its written
echo "export PS1=\"\h #\"">/etc/profile


• Buy me a beer.
• Offer me a job.
• Donate to the EFF.

It doesn't work! What should I do?

Noticing that most of the links are from DealDatabase you might be tempted to go post there and expect someone to figure out the problem for you. Fight the temptation. Re-read the guide and make sure you've done every step correctly. Read the threads with the linked files in them. Search the DealDatabase forum for things relative to your problem. Whatever problem you have, it is not unique to you or your setup. Someone has had it before, and a solution has been presented. Before posting, I strongly recommend reading the guidelines outlined by ESR. If and when you do post a question, post in the Newbie Forum and make sure to be extremely specific. Explain what hardware you are using, what software you are using, what you have done, and what you are trying to accomplish. If you don't, at best you will be ignored, and at worst they will make you cry.

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