{"id":984,"date":"2008-04-09T23:57:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T23:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=984"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:52:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T08:52:58","slug":"what-you-dont-have-you-dont-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"What you don&#8217;t have, you don&#8217;t miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem that, when I look around at my friends, everyone around me has a laptop. Their reasoning for having one varies from it being their main\/only computer, to something which is more convenient than a desktop, through to no reasoning at all. My mum recently acquired one, and I said I&#8217;d set it up. A quick download of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xubuntu.org\/\">Xubuntu<\/a>, Gutsy Gibbon, (it&#8217;s an old laptop!) and it was up and running. Web surfing is accomplished by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla-europe.org\/en\/products\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a>, dial-up access and wireless networking worked out of the box.  Whilst it is in my possession, I figured I might as well use it, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pidgin.im\/\">Pidgin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xnest\">Xnest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gnomesword.sourceforge.net\/\">Gnomesword<\/a>\/ESV were installed which enable me to chat on MSN\/GTalk\/ICQ, open XDMCP sessions on my <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/\">Fedora<\/a> 8 box and read the bible all from the comfort of my bed. (Where I am now :))<\/p>\n<p>Eventually I&#8217;ll return the laptop to my mum so she can use it to check her email and browse the web. The question I&#8217;m left with now is; Do I get a laptop? Sure, it&#8217;s nice for blogging from bed, or instant messaging in front of the telly, but do I really need one? It would be useful when I&#8217;m on holiday to copy photos onto so my camera doesn&#8217;t get clogged up, to watch DVDs, to make blog posts and email, but do I really need it?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I need it, but it&#8217;s sure nice. We&#8217;ll see I guess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem that, when I look around at my friends, everyone around me has a laptop. Their reasoning for having one varies from it being their main\/only computer, to something which is more convenient than a desktop, through to no reasoning at all. My mum recently acquired one, and I said I&#8217;d set it&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=984\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-rambling","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}