{"id":70,"date":"2006-02-04T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2006-02-04T09:11:39","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T16:11:39","slug":"my-name-is-don-and-im-a-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"My name is Don&#8230;&#8230;. and I&#8217;m a geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it.  I am poweless over technology and my life has become Windowless.  I can&#8217;t seem to satisfy my urge to install operating systems on my computer. Only another geek would understand.<\/p>\n<p>It started with Red Hat(Fedora Core actually) then moved on to Mandrake.  Next I was putting Suse on hda7.  Can you imagine?  HDA7!  We shouldn&#8217;t forget that hda6 is the swap partition so maybe that one shouldn&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I downloaded the ISO of Gentoo.  Nobody uses Gentoo but I&#8217;m thinking about it because I&#8217;ve still got about 80 GB free.<\/p>\n<p>After that I&#8217;ll probably try Slackware again.  They say once you&#8217;ve installed Slackware you&#8217;ve hit bottom.  It doesn&#8217;t even boot into X!  Command line only.  With a BASH shell.  And you have to create the initrd.<\/p>\n<p>I realize I&#8217;ve got a problem but I think I can handle it.  After all, I&#8217;m using Grub instead of LILO.  You don&#8217;t have to rebuild Grub every time you add a \/boot like you do with LILO.<\/p>\n<p>But I do draw the line somewhere.  I will NOT install FreeBSD!<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if there&#8217;s a 12 step?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it. I am poweless over technology and my life has become Windowless. I can&#8217;t seem to satisfy my urge to install operating systems on my computer. Only another geek would understand. It started with Red Hat(Fedora Core actually) then moved on to Mandrake. Next I was putting Suse on hda7. Can you imagine? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}