{"id":87613932,"date":"2005-10-04T08:21:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T15:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613932"},"modified":"2005-10-04T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T15:32:30","slug":"still-geekin-when-i-should-be-sleepin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613932","title":{"rendered":"Still geekin&#8217; when I could be sleepin&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been playing around with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu Linux<\/a> over the last few years, downloading the occasional LiveCD to see what things look like, and what does\/doesn&#8217;t work on my tower and\/or laptop.  For the most part, the main thing that&#8217;s scared me away from seriously trying Linux is that I&#8217;d have so much fiddling around to do to get my WiFi working in the house.  This version (5.10 &#8220;Breezy Badger) just plain worked.  No messing around, no preconfiguration with another NDIS wrapper or something.  Just&#8230; worked.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo then I downloaded a proper installation disc (non-live), created a little 5gb partition on my laptop, and now I&#8217;ve got dual booting XP\/Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>\nPretty neat, and now I&#8217;m finally getting some experience in this particular flavour of Linux.  Oh, and if you call it Leeeeenux within earshot, I will giggle at you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been playing around with Ubuntu Linux over the last few years, downloading the occasional LiveCD to see what things look like, and what does\/doesn&#8217;t work on my tower and\/or laptop. For the most part, the main thing that&#8217;s scared me away from seriously trying Linux is that I&#8217;d have so much fiddling around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}