{"id":279,"date":"2006-07-31T05:55:40","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T05:55:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-08-15T03:58:07","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T03:58:07","slug":"new-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/new-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I answered the question of what laptop to get by buying an Apple MacBook.  I got the simplest (and cheapest) model. I put 2 GB of RAM that I bought from Fry&#8217;s. One reason is that I could pick it up from an Apple Store. Another is that I liked the flexibility of the choosing what operating system to run and the chance to try out Mac OS X. I haven&#8217;t decided yet if I am going to run Linux or Mac OS X primarily and how to switch between them. I am going to give Mac OS X a try first and see if I can get everything done that I need.<\/p>\n<p>I also got some wireless network gear to replace all my old equipment.  I got a Linksys WRTP45G which is a wireless broadband router and Vonage phone adapter in one. I also got a Linksys WRT54GL to flash with Linux and turn into a wireless bridge. Fry&#8217;s isn&#8217;t selling wireless bridges any more and the modified router is cheaper in any case. I don&#8217;t understand why the wireless bridging isn&#8217;t more available. I finally got rid of the phoneline network I was using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I answered the question of what laptop to get by buying an Apple MacBook. I got the simplest (and cheapest) model. I put 2 GB of RAM that I bought from Fry&#8217;s. One reason is that I could pick it up from an Apple Store. Another is that I liked the flexibility of the choosing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}