{"id":7771,"date":"2010-04-16T15:36:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T15:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/16\/technology-rants\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T15:36:47","slug":"technology-rants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/technology-rants\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Rants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe more like tidbits than rants. This is all Linux  or ani-Windows stuff, so everyone else you get the clam-hand*.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFirst, from Linux in Exile we have a discussion of virtual desktops. Virtual desktops, to me, make a GUI computer usable.  GUI computers without them suck.  Linux has them.  Windows does not.  <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxinexile.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/on-virtual-desktops.html\">Shut up and go read this. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>But sometimes you need to run Windows in a virtual machine (or some other thing must be run in a virtual machine).  I&#8217;ve been playing around with this and its fun. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/article\/creating-first-virtual-machine-ubuntu-linux-part1\">Have a look at this.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a cool new Linux-ready netbook that will run all day without a charge.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desktoplinux.com\/news\/NS5240882048.html?kc=rss\">Supposedly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And check out this new game (that you need to buy, but it&#8217;s a real game, so what can you do)?  &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/linusearch.com\/wordpress\/?p=788\">Out of the park<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>See <a href=\"http:\/\/unconventional-airsoft.com\/2003\/01\/15\/hand-signals-defined\/\">this<\/a> for hand signals.  See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profilebrand.com\/funny-pictures\/category\/chainsaw%20hands\/1\">this<\/a> for a demonstration of the clam hand. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe more like tidbits than rants. This is all Linux or ani-Windows stuff, so everyone else you get the clam-hand*.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3477,67,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-21l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}