{"id":514,"date":"2008-04-29T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/29\/514\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T21:09:11","slug":"514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/514\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working pretty hard, for me, on the new job.&nbsp; Not even sure what I&#8217;m doing half the time.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got a way to install Linux on my machine.&nbsp; I used WUBI (Windows UBuntu Installer) to install Ubuntu Linux, a flavor of Debian.&nbsp; Well, first I installed the KDE4 version, but found out how much KDE 4 is not ready for prime time&#8230; after much consultation on the Ubuntu Forum, I decided to just go with Gnome and get &#8220;regular&#8221; Ubuntu.&nbsp; It runs great, and I not only lost no data but have total access to my Windows data, which I didn&#8217;t have on my previous installation (on my old machine).&nbsp; This was the easiest, simplest installation I&#8217;ve done.&nbsp; Warning: Do not do this if you have dialup access&#8230; the download takes hours at 1.5 Mbps (my DSL speed).&nbsp; But you can purchase a disk of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (usually only $5, the cost of copying the disk) and it includes WUBI, so you can run it from there.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve had to add a couple programs (can&#8217;t live without NetHack and PySol), and the installation was a total breeze.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, gotta get some more work done.<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>Me<br \/>Administrative Editor for Eternal Press &#8211; http:\/\/eternalpress.ca<br \/>President, Asheville Homeless Network &#8211; http:\/\/ashevillehomeless.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working pretty hard, for me, on the new job.&nbsp; Not even sure what I&#8217;m doing half the time. I finally got a way to install Linux on my machine.&nbsp; I used WUBI (Windows UBuntu Installer) to install Ubuntu Linux, a flavor of Debian.&nbsp; Well, first I installed the KDE4 version, but found out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}