{"id":286,"date":"2008-10-24T13:39:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T18:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2008-10-24T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T18:39:22","slug":"action-plan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Action Plan #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In accordance with the new law as mentioned from Thoughts and Action, I will be building myself an Ubuntu box for classwork and to become familiar with the Unix\/Linux environment.\u00a0 From my last upgrade to my current machine I have the following spare parts laying around<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A8N-SLI Premium Mobo with AMD FX-55 Processor and 1.5GB DDR Memory<\/li>\n<li>GeForce 8800GTX video card<\/li>\n<li>80GB Hard Drive<\/li>\n<li>Incredibly cheap, falling apart case<\/li>\n<li>SB Live! 5.1 sound card<\/li>\n<li>Possibly broken, crossing my fingers that it isn&#8217;t, cd-rom drive<\/li>\n<li>Spare keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Spare Logitech MX1000 wireless mouse<\/li>\n<li>Couple of spare CRT monitors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So from the ashes will be reborn this unholy beast!\u00a0 Although asides from class, I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;ll do with it.\u00a0 I may pop on MythTV or something.\u00a0 Anyone have any suggestions as to what one can do with such a thing?\u00a0 Also I may need a new power supply.\u00a0 If worse comes to worst, what I may have to do is buy a new case this weekend and transplant my current rig into a new case and build this tiny dude into my current one.<\/p>\n<p>Secondarily and this is minor, is what to do about keyboard\/mouse\/monitor.\u00a0 Do I want to clutter up my desk with a fat CRT?\u00a0 My Dell 20&#8243; has a free dsub input but the switching time is annoying.\u00a0 Most people suggest synergy so I don&#8217;t have to have a second set of keyboard\/mouse laying around.\u00a0 I dunno we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In accordance with the new law as mentioned from Thoughts and Action, I will be building myself an Ubuntu box for classwork and to become familiar with the Unix\/Linux environment.\u00a0 From my last upgrade to my current machine I have the following spare parts laying around A8N-SLI Premium Mobo with AMD FX-55 Processor and 1.5GB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}