{"id":1571,"date":"2007-07-31T22:01:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T01:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2007-10-06T07:00:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T10:00:45","slug":"what-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1571","title":{"rendered":"What, technology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> find myself <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1572' rel='attachment wp-att-1572' title='Uranus'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/u_r_an_us.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Uranus' \/><\/a>browsing the web using Ubuntu&#8217;s Firefox (in a virtual machine) instead of using Windows&#8217;. Yes, but is that the real deal? Yes, it is. Notice that if you requested your <a href=\"https:\/\/shipit.ubuntu.com\/\">free Ubuntu disks<\/a>, you also get free Ubuntu stickers. Where are Microsoft&#8217;s? I hope the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/solaris\/\">Solaris kit<\/a> comes with free stickers. Bonus link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/126702\/Windows_vs._Linux_vs._OS_X_CIO_John_Halamka_Tests_Ubuntu_\/1\">A CIO reviews Ubuntu<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Talking about Microsoft: you&#8217;ve probably read that many companies have their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworlduk.com\/management\/infrastructure\/applications\/news\/index.cfm?newsid=4306\">doubts about moving from XP to Vista<\/a>. And then there are still issues with the XBOX 360 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingbits.com\/content\/view\/2422\/2\/\">rumoured price cut<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Steve+Ballmer+Describes+New+Xbox+360+Warranty+as+Painful\/article8226.htm\">Balmer decribes extra warranty as &#8216;painful&#8217;<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>Stepping away from computers: Austrian researchers debunked the notion that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/cp\/Oddities\/070731\/K07319AU.html\">full moon causes more (workplace) injuries<\/a>. A team of astronomers and statisticians analyzed over 500,000 industrial incidents and found no link to lunar activities. Yes, but what about Uranus?\n<\/p>\n<p>And last but not least, I read the transcript of an online chat with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mugglenet.com\/app\/news\/full_story\/1156\">J.K. Rowlings and, well, uh, Potter-fans<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a question: will the Harry Potter series ever make it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_domain\">public domain<\/a>, so that our grand-grand children can enjoy it by printing it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2007\/6\/prweb534914.htm\">using this EBM device<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself browsing the web using Ubuntu&#8217;s Firefox (in a virtual machine) instead of using Windows&#8217;. Yes, but is that the real deal? Yes, it is. Notice that if you requested your free Ubuntu disks, you also get free &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1571\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[113,101,115,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}