{"id":157,"date":"2006-01-20T02:39:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T06:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manthano.blogzor.com\/2006\/01\/20\/free-from-dependence-on-window\/"},"modified":"2006-01-20T02:39:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T06:39:56","slug":"free-from-dependence-on-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Free from dependence on Window$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally!  I was able to get <a title=\"Linux for human beings\" href=\"http:\/\/ubuntu.com\">ubuntu<\/a> installed on my <a rel=\"Christmas present\" href=\"http:\/\/manthano.blogzor.com\/post\/8\/859\">new external hard drive<\/a>.  It wasn&#39;t as easy as I thought it was going to be due to two problems.  (Problems on my end, not w\/ ubuntu)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>First, I had a problem w\/ my screen, which i mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/manthano.blogzor.com\/post\/8\/859\">before<\/a>.  Turns out it was just a loose connection between my screen and motherboard.  So that&#39;s been fixed. (Free service is really nice.)<\/p>\n<p>Now for problem two&#8230; Getting Linux (grub specifically) to play nice w\/ a USB hard drive.  Thankfully, these problems were easily resolved with a step-by-step guide at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?p=436420#post436420\"> ubuntuforums.org<\/a>.  It took about an hour to get it installed.  And then another hour to figure out few tweaks (get the middle button on my Thinkpad trackpoint to work, install <a href=\"http:\/\/getfirefox.com\">Firefox<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/getthunderbird.com\">Thunderbird<\/a> 1.5).  And in the process of doing that I began learning about using the command line and Linux permissions.  Good stuff.  So everything is up and running just great.<\/p>\n<p>There are still a few things on the Linux to-do list&#8230; Be able to boot Win XP from grub, get some programs from the universe and multiverse, add some fonts (I wonder if Verdana works in Linux&#8230;), and a few other miscellaneous things.  But that gives me something fun to work on in between <a href=\"http:\/\/bju.edu\">school<\/a>.  (Not that school&#39;s not fun, but you know&#8230;) <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\";)\" src=\"http:\/\/xaqq.com\/plugins\/smileys\/icons\/simple\/smiley_wink.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally! I was able to get ubuntu installed on my new external hard drive. It wasn&#39;t as easy as I thought it was going to be due to two problems. (Problems on my end, not w\/ ubuntu) First, I had a problem w\/ my screen, which i mentioned before. Turns out it was just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[30,41,47,61,90,104],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","category-technology","tag-computer","tag-geek","tag-hardware","tag-linux","tag-tech","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}