{"id":492,"date":"2012-02-07T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=492"},"modified":"2012-02-07T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T14:14:08","slug":"venturing-into-the-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Venturing into the Dark Side ;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120202_004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mac_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mac_small\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mac_small.jpg 500w, https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mac_small-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Click on the image for a much larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while. I&#8217;ve been busy as usual, with really hectic days. My Christmas was nice, but January was a difficult month. I had to face several challenges, including several (and expensive) repairs to the car. I&#8217;m still sitting tight, but meanwhile there are news.<\/p>\n<p>The PC I was using at the office (running an unpatched copy of XP; I don&#8217;t manage the IT operation, so don&#8217;t look at me) kept crashing again and again. The situation got so bad that one day I experienced > 15 crashes, thus seriously hindering my ability to get any work done. Since the only computer available was a Mac, guess what I&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p>The picture says it all. I&#8217;ve got an iMac with a nice screen, 300 GB HDD and 2 GB RAM. It is <em>ancient<\/em>, running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), so you can get the idea. I think this is one of the first Macs running with Intel processors.<\/p>\n<p>So far it&#8217;s been a nice experience. A Mac is a wholly different beast than a Windows or Linux PC. Things such as window or application management are done with a different workflow; and some of it could be downright annoying for someone used to a PC. But it gets the work done, and that&#8217;s important. All in all, an opportunity to learn something new. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click on the image for a much larger version) It&#8217;s been a while. I&#8217;ve been busy as usual, with really hectic days. My Christmas was nice, but January was a difficult month. I had to face several challenges, including several (and expensive) repairs to the car. I&#8217;m still sitting tight, but meanwhile there are news&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}