{"id":679,"date":"2008-02-03T21:42:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T04:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2008\/02\/adventures-in-computer-crappiness"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:03:43","slug":"adventures-in-computer-crappiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2008\/02\/03\/adventures-in-computer-crappiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Computer Crappiness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was having some&#8230;issues with my laptop, and I wanted to fix those issues.  But that could never be easy.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s happened so far:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t update Ubuntu for some fucking reason.  Probably because there was something wrong with the wireless card.  So, I thought about just reformatting, but I wasn&#8217;t sure if I could get wireless back [because I didn&#8217;t remember a few important details].  So I reset my wireless router.<\/p>\n<p>Mistake number one.  Expecting that to go well.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, I completely fucked that up.  Maybe it was because I was dead tired and I had a headache, and I was more interested in finding ANYTHING [even celery] for my cucumber feta dip.  Never get into networking when you&#8217;ve got your mind on dip.  It never ends well.<\/p>\n<p>So, I went to bed all pissed off, and then I woke up even more pissed off, because it wasn&#8217;t even working for the DS like it was supposed to.<\/p>\n<p>Reset number 2 went well.  I got wireless working in Windows on the laptop, but not under Linux.  So&#8230;to hell with it.  Reformat time.  Except&#8230;once I started in on that, I wanted to go back and redo the entire thing.  So, after trying out the latest version of Ubuntu [it&#8217;s nice], I just went ahead and reformatted the entire thing.  Windows first, Linux second.<\/p>\n<p>More later&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: it&#8217;s later, and I&#8217;ve got the whole dual boot thing happening again.  I&#8217;m installing Opera and Wine and a few other things right now, which is why I&#8217;m writing this instead of&#8230;well, doing anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Edit 2: I just wanted to mention that there is absolutely no reason the average Windows user can&#8217;t use the latest release of Ubuntu [7.10].  Some things may be a little confusing, and require a little thought, but anyone capable of looking things up and following a few simple directions will be able to figure it out.  There are some things you probably cannot do yet, but for the average user?  It will work.<\/p>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t want to hear one more fucking thing about how you have to be smart or advanced to even think about using Linux, okay?  It&#8217;s over.  Move on, and find something else to be elitist about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was having some&#8230;issues with my laptop, and I wanted to fix those issues. But that could never be easy. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s happened so far:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,113],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib","tag-computer-stuff","tag-networking"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-aX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}