{"id":2719,"date":"2006-08-26T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/26\/the-computer-does-work\/"},"modified":"2006-08-26T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T12:47:09","slug":"the-computer-does-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/26\/the-computer-does-work\/","title":{"rendered":"the computer does work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picked up the new computer from Canada Computers<\/a> yesterday. High-end it isn’t, but it’s more than adequate. It’s an AMD Sempron 3000+ (on a Foxconn K8M890M2MA-RS2H<\/a> motherboard), with 1GB RAM, 80GB SATA disk and a DVD\u00c2\u00b1RW drive. There was change out of $400, including tax.<\/p>\n

It’s running Ubuntu<\/a> for AMD64. While there are a few things I don’t have configured, it was all installed in under an hour. It reminds me a bit of OS X. There’s one thing it does better than the Mac; it knows about duplex printers, and assumes you want to be able to print duplex. Under OS X, you have to choose two-sided every time you print. Thanks to Davey<\/a> for originally putting me on to Ubuntu. My life’s too short to mess with linux configs.<\/p>\n

Now I need to move the old hard drive over as a spare, and fit the various cards from the old machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picked up the new computer from Canada Computers yesterday. High-end it isn’t, but it’s more than adequate. It’s an AMD Sempron 3000+ (on a Foxconn K8M890M2MA-RS2H motherboard), with 1GB RAM, 80GB SATA disk and a DVD\u00c2\u00b1RW drive. There was change out of $400, including tax. It’s running Ubuntu for AMD64. While there are a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1013,447,50,1200,85,823,935,841,1080,1248,150,270,269,166,922,365,1071,184,305],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-1013","tag-amd64","tag-blog","tag-canada","tag-car","tag-computer","tag-dave","tag-drive","tag-dvd","tag-hang","tag-led","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-old","tag-printer","tag-red","tag-tim","tag-time","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-HR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}