{"id":1795,"date":"2014-05-13T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2014-05-13T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:45:07","slug":"tuesday-13-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/05\/13\/tuesday-13-may-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 13 May 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:40 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I&#8217;m now running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my main system. At the moment, I don&#8217;t care much for it&#8211;they seem to take pleasure in making simple things difficult&#8211;but it&#8217;s supported for five years and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get used to it. Fortunately, the Firefox and Thunderbird data transferred seamlessly. I just fired them both up and was back where I was.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Linux Mint 15 shot craps on me late yesterday afternoon. Suddenly I had no network connection. At first, I thought our Internet connection was down, but it wasn&#8217;t. So I rebooted the system, and it still didn&#8217;t work. At that point, I began to think that the Ethernet adapter had died. Only a couple days ago, I&#8217;d downloaded the ISO for Ubuntu 14.04, so I stuck the DVD in the drive and rebooted again. Ubuntu came up in try-before-you-buy mode, and was able to access the Internet with no problem. Okay, enough of Linux Mint, which has always been flaky anyway.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I had multiple recent backups, both to external hard drive and USB flash sticks, but I decided to pull another full copy to another hard drive. That ran overnight. This morning, I disconnected the external hard drive, rebooted the system to the Ubuntu 14.04 DVD, and installed. That took only a few minutes, and I was up and running. I still have to transfer over the bulk of my data, get printers configured, and so on, but on balance I&#8217;m glad to be back on Ubuntu.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Kit-wise, this has gone from a slowish month to a reasonable one, all because we just got an order for 30 CK01A chemistry kits from a Florida state university. Unfortunately, we have only a couple dozen of those kits in stock at the moment, so I&#8217;m just going to build another batch of 30 specifically for this order.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:40 &#8211; I&#8217;m now running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my main system. At the moment, I don&#8217;t care much for it&#8211;they seem to take pleasure in making simple things difficult&#8211;but it&#8217;s supported for five years and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get used to it. Fortunately, the Firefox and Thunderbird data transferred seamlessly. I just fired them both up and was back where I was.\n<\/p>\n<p>Linux Mint 15 shot craps on me late yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/05\/13\/tuesday-13-may-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tuesday, 13 May 2014 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}