{"id":517,"date":"2004-03-07T23:11:13","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T02:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=517"},"modified":"2004-03-07T23:11:13","modified_gmt":"2004-03-08T02:11:13","slug":"computers-green-and-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Computers, Green and Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>V<\/span>ia Slashdot there was a link pointing to an article, or review, about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flexbeta.net\/main\/articles.php?action=show&#038;id=40\">a new Windows build<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=99623&#038;cid=8492615\">Slashdot<\/a>). A couple of comments: the author tells about the commit rate of the newest Windows version. <em>Megabytes<\/em> literally. And think of the energy consumption: just right around the corner this article discusses that computers should be more energy saving and generally must become more greener:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&#8220;Users should think carefully about whether they really need to buy a new computer; if upgrading the existing machine could serve the same purpose.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>How about that Microsoft?\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the author of the Windows review article says the following:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>The layout is clean and clutter free. Minimal icons are presented on the desktop, which is one of my pet peeves; <em>I go to great lengths to maintain an icon-less desktop<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty sad. I&#8217;m a programmer and I like to have my desktop cluttered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Slashdot there was a link pointing to an article, or review, about a new Windows build (Slashdot). A couple of comments: the author tells about the commit rate of the newest Windows version. Megabytes literally. And think of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=517\">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":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}