{"id":334,"date":"2003-06-28T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2003-06-28T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2013-01-04T20:11:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T20:11:25","slug":"28-06-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2003\/06\/28\/28-06-03\/","title":{"rendered":"28-06-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Over the past couple of days I&#8217;ve been playing with Linux more, in particular Knoppix. I managed to get it to dual boot with Windows XP at school which was great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">I&#8217;ve now dual booted my main PC at home with a Knoppix hard disk install and Windows XP. At the moment I&#8217;m getting very frustrated with not being able to get my sound card to work under Linux. I must have spent about 10 hours talking on IRC, searching google, fumbling around in a Konsole and just generally not getting anywhere, while a fresh installation of Windows XP that I haven&#8217;t even touched is producing all sorts of sounds with zero configuration&#8230; it&#8217;s not like I even have obscure hardware. It&#8217;s a sound blaster card for goodness sake! Only the most popular sound cards, in the world! I think it&#8217;s about time I went to a LUG meeting to find out what I&#8217;m doing wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">ADSL arrived, and after a long time configuring the router with no instruction manual and a &#8220;quick start guide&#8221; for the wrong firmware version I finally got connected. It&#8217;s fast \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The RIAA announced that it will be sueing a few hundred potential customers for up to \u00a390,000 each over the next few months for offering copyrighted music over Kazaa, instead of actually adopting P2P technology to make money, which I guess makes sense. Not. Isn&#8217;t it about time music artists starting ditching these idiots and sold their albums online for a fraction of the price but actually get the profit themselves?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of days I&#8217;ve been playing with Linux more, in particular Knoppix. I managed to get it to dual boot with Windows XP at school which was great. I&#8217;ve now dual booted my main PC at home with a Knoppix hard disk install and Windows XP. At the moment I&#8217;m getting very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2003\/06\/28\/28-06-03\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">28-06-03<\/span><\/a><\/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-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}