{"id":463,"date":"2003-02-23T19:25:38","date_gmt":"2003-02-24T00:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=463"},"modified":"2003-02-23T19:25:38","modified_gmt":"2003-02-24T00:25:38","slug":"casting-off-the-shackles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2003\/02\/23\/casting-off-the-shackles\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting off the shackles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Tim <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/TimsBlog\/2003\/02\/23.html#a348\"> has been grappling<\/a> with the fucknuts at Network Solutions.  I&#8217;d laugh, but it&#8217;s a domain I share with him.<\/p>\n<p>Further to my XP trial recently, I&#8217;ve decided to ditch Microsoft altogether for my new primary workstation.  I went out to my neighbourhood Staples store this weekend and bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-mandrake.com\">Mandrake Linux<\/a> Power Pack 9.0.  Just $79.99 Canadian for 7 CDs packed with Mandrake plus all sorts of commercial and open source applications.  I&#8217;ve got it up and running very smoothly indeed.  There will be a couple of things I&#8217;ll have to either run on my old machine or set up to work with Wine, but I think it&#8217;s gonna be a good experience &#8211; certainly not one for the faint of heart or those lacking in nerdiness, but I&#8217;m the poster-boy for such things, so no problem here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Tim has been grappling with the fucknuts at Network Solutions. I&#8217;d laugh, but it&#8217;s a domain I share with him. Further to my XP trial recently, I&#8217;ve decided to ditch Microsoft altogether for my new primary workstation. I went out to my neighbourhood Staples store this weekend and bought Mandrake Linux Power Pack 9.0. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}