{"id":990,"date":"2008-11-25T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/11\/25\/990\/"},"modified":"2008-11-25T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T22:58:00","slug":"ubuntu-for-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/ubuntu-for-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu for two"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bosworth\/577754824\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1411\/577754824_489b09afac_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bosworth\/577754824\/\">Det obligatoriske &quot;Ubuntu kan bare nogen fine ting&quot;-billede<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/bosworth\/\">bosworth.dk<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Marcel seems to think that computers are for downloading random programs from the Internet, preferably without an up-to-date anti-virus program.<\/p>\n<p>So of course his computer (running Windows XP) got very, very ill.  I managed to clean it, but unfortunately this left many programs broken.<\/p>\n<p>Our only set of XP CDs didn&#8217;t work on his 64-bit computer, so in an act of desperation I wiped his harddisk clean and installed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ubuntu\">Ubuntu Linux<\/a> on it instead.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, he rather seems to like it, and I have had no requests so far to reinstall Windows XP.  Is he a new convert to Linux, I wonder?<\/p>\n<p>Having burned an installation CD for this purpose, I decided to reinstall Ubuntu on my laptop, which had been left somewhat useless after the auto-upgrade from version 7 to 8 failed.<\/p>\n<p>It worked beautifully, except that the wireless connection didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>However, after rebooting three times with a wired connection, it managed to locate and install a proprietary driver on its own, and suddenly the wireless card kicked into action without any action from my part.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Det obligatoriske &quot;Ubuntu kan bare nogen fine ting&quot;-billede Originally uploaded by bosworth.dk Marcel seems to think that computers are for downloading random programs from the Internet, preferably without an up-to-date anti-virus program. So of course his computer (running Windows XP) got very, very ill. I managed to clean it, but unfortunately this left many programs broken. Our only set of XP CDs didn&#8217;t work on his 64-bit computer, so in an act of desperation I wiped his harddisk clean and installed Ubuntu Linux on it instead. Surprisingly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,114,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-da","category-computing","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}