{"id":6,"date":"2005-12-18T17:38:31","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T22:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/battlemage.dyndns.org\/?p=6"},"modified":"2013-12-14T12:51:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:51:24","slug":"when-it-it-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/when-it-it-time\/","title":{"rendered":"When is it time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to just throw stuff out?<\/p>\n<p>I did a bit of pre-Xmas cleanup today, and pulled a dusty old computer out of my closet. I remember it used to be my firewall, so it had Linux on it, but other than that I couldn&#8217;t remember the last time it was used. So I plugged it in and as luck would have it, it booted! The filesystem checker shows I had neglected it since 2002&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"486 Fsck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/images\/computers\/486_fsck.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a AMD 486 DX4-133 w\/16MB RAM and a 10GB disk drive, running Slackware 8.1. Back when I was in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwo.ca\/\">UWO<\/a> it was a kick-ass system&#8230; now my old PDA could run circles around it, and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyericsson.com\/spg.jsp?cc=au&#038;lc=au&#038;ver=4000&#038;template=pp1_loader&#038;php=php1_10245&#038;zone=pp&#038;lm=pp1&#038;pid=10245\">cell phone<\/a> would probably give it a run for its money.<\/p>\n<p>I hate getting rid of things that still work. Hate it. But for the life of me I can&#8217;t think of a use for this old PC.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I should wipe it of any personal info, and send it to meet its maker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to just throw stuff out? I did a bit of pre-Xmas cleanup today, and pulled a dusty old computer out of my closet. I remember it used to be my firewall, so it had Linux on it, but other than <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/when-it-it-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  When is it time&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}