{"id":802,"date":"2007-09-13T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2007-09-13T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T17:04:00","slug":"the-computer-is-dead-long-live-the-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"The Computer is Dead, Long Live the Computer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New and Improved Less Blown Up computer is at home, waiting to be tested out.  I finished putting all the guts back in last night after the messy motherboarderectomy.  I was too bleary eyed to be trusted to check it over before powering up.<\/p>\n<p>Foolishly, I did not pay close attention when I ordered the motherboard to the types of sockets and plugs that were included&#8230; I failed to get one with a 20 pin power supply style (hopelessly antiquated! After three years!) or a AGPx16 socket for the display.  So, a new power supply (24+4) and display card (PCI Express) needed to be purchased.  <\/p>\n<p>So, if anyone has need of an AGPx16 compatible display card  or a 450W 20 pin computer power supply, I can help you out.<\/p>\n<p>So, tonight, after <a href=\"http:\/\/steakums.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">steakums<\/a> gets back from her business meeting with her clients<sup>1<\/sup>, I shall shut my eyes tight and flip the power button.<\/p>\n<p>May the deity of ones and zeros have mercy; I need my computer back.<\/p>\n<p>___________________<br \/>\n<font size=\"-2\"><sup>1<\/sup> Translation: Hitting a bar with the Georgia Shakes folks.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New and Improved Less Blown Up computer is at home, waiting to be tested out. I finished putting all the guts back in last night after the messy motherboarderectomy. I was too bleary eyed to be trusted to check &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=802\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}