{"id":3072,"date":"2019-05-09T22:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2019-05-09T23:25:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T04:25:36","slug":"computer-hardware-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2019\/05\/09\/computer-hardware-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Hardware 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been rainy, or at least threatening rain for days, so when today looked to be only cloudy, I jumped at the chance to ride the bike to work. I spent most of the morning at Oakland setting up a new phone extension and configuring a switch for it. Shavon emailed me along with a couple others to invite us for lunch, so Allen, Jason, and I all drove there separately. I wanted to go to the junior high in the afternoon, and I guess Allen wasn&#8217;t going back to the shop either.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed at the junior high almost until school let out, slowly making my way around some work while trying to keep my blood pressure low. Then I went back to preschool for a work order on the way over to the high school to meet up with Dale. We scanned in another cubby worth of laptops and did a very little bit of exploring before quitting time.<\/p>\n<p>Back home, I felt flush all evening. I couldn&#8217;t tell if it was an actual problem, or if I was just paranoid, but I wasn&#8217;t going to stress over it. Summer had to go to the shop for a meeting to be introduced formally as the new manager, and then to Autumn&#8217;s band concert. I spent some time cleaning up my computer, and then even more time just trying to relax in bed.<\/p>\n<p>One of my esports founders expressed boredom, so I suggested he troubleshoot his desktop that doesn&#8217;t currently work. For a kid in EAST that I would assume has some interest in computers, he really seemed to be afraid to try anything at all. Maybe I&#8217;m looking back through rose-tinted glasses, but I feel like I never hesitated to tear into stuff. I remember getting a VooDoo graphics card from Jared and installing that in my computer to improve seemingly everything. I wonder what happened to things like that. In the end, we narrowed it down to a likely bad hard drive, but I can get him a crappy spare from scrap. It should be easy to get him back in business.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/YPVyQjxM4WpVlH5Fh2euampfSOrwQjJx-B9RVPri4uOYTW4xuCt-o5yAIu0Hvu2emyiLoNjbaZyXWdWPcXqxR8CBtNUFWwz0bM8MJ0IKHvQFl8a2zKb8LSD1bGMjzZzhyB-UCkoJeQSPv-rKy2aqWUmw_YwCPeo2_2nYCRRRCEaJ1gBg2opHC6KC22FO35nVrrhTI1t-6n3kke1kzj1YUL9yva2MRexru2Ams50RI5BYBOb_QDsv2xJSC1FJgpAe6ELRaJrYd77ydsJRmcJfLX1uvvaqwWUt9e0Cu2pGmma-NNE8dkSoF520cXZtR5VhRoCFhRnSBLlbckUbw8dCwvze-jMXWHJkJoW9iW3Da-giLjqMCMPREq-6NOZyDgxmmWL_A6sNjQ-Hfu_r_OehcO3QmCSbPMJ23eDO-1iUH0KQPmA00UplsNeo2SDdTzZCF8VDldu90K-bE1EnzzzcKN92kaB0G16ZFKdTrmJywd-Wa1ANuZmGvR1u5cOV3AfK3OaZcTvMB_Hx0j0F6AK-fPuaNose2EeOrCGFMCzU6phurnt1f5N4QOszr0ivFH4Voy4tpbDeQAFuTZ3r7ZaUiyHD5zl_F4dLm8MNwZP0no5yIKmsWnCANCSzQx7zJCAXXOTnftcXezwpGvQezA4pUSE30sI9c5e1I4O6VSDCHI6JNQZMWmNbJpsZjTjt0hihmAeWvdV3gkgOopUD8RedWqRHmg=w1754-h1315-no\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Remember that time you thought you couldn&#8217;t do that thing, but then you turned around and did it anyway?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been rainy, or at least threatening rain for days, so when today looked to be only cloudy, I jumped at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,53,27],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-esports","tag-health","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}