{"id":812,"date":"2010-10-26T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=812"},"modified":"2010-10-26T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T14:01:58","slug":"minor-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/minor-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As anticipated, my big day off was a total waste.\u00a0 Oh well, it was to be expected.\u00a0 I did get some PC-related issues cleared up between all the worthless television episodes though.\u00a0 One involved replacing my &#8220;storage&#8221; drive on the main PC.\u00a0 It has been pushing the &#8220;too full&#8221; condition for quite a while now, so I upgraded from a 320 gig to a fancy new terabyte drive.\u00a0 I gave consideration to leaving the 320 in there and running all three drives, but decided I didn&#8217;t need to burn the extra electricity.\u00a0 I give it about 3 weeks before I invariably decide, &#8220;well there&#8217;s no sense just leaving it in the closet, I&#8217;m putting it back in.&#8221;\u00a0 I can backup my backups to it or something ridiculous.\u00a0 I also finally switched my laptop over to <a title=\"Ubuntu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu Linux<\/a>.\u00a0 That one has been a long time coming, I&#8217;ve had that thing for well over a year.\u00a0 I gave an honest effort to liking Windows Vista, but finally conceded it is junk.\u00a0 I like Windows 7 well enough, which I use on my PC, but I couldn&#8217;t see buying a $150 operating system for a $300 laptop.\u00a0 The Linux does just fine;\u00a0 I&#8217;d recommend it for anybody.\u00a0 Matter of fact, it does several things quite a bit better than Windows;\u00a0 Notably, it manages my super-duper firewall, and even more importantly it has built-in Sudoku.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As anticipated, my big day off was a total waste.\u00a0 Oh well, it was to be expected.\u00a0 I did get some PC-related issues cleared up between all the worthless television episodes though.\u00a0 One involved replacing my &#8220;storage&#8221; drive on the main PC.\u00a0 It has been pushing the &#8220;too full&#8221; condition for quite a while now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}