{"id":16,"date":"2003-12-30T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-30T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/cf\/?p=16"},"modified":"2003-12-30T05:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-30T05:39:00","slug":"not-ready-for-prime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/not-ready-for-prime-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Not Ready For Prime Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowdoglinux.com\">Yellow Dog Linux<\/a> for Mac PowerPC over the holiday, taking advantage of the parents&#8217; cable net connection. Thought I&#8217;d try to install it on the old 6500\/250, which is otherwise sitting around gathering dust. Installation was easy (provided I actually read the instructions on occasion). The only problem is that the 6500 is currently using an even more ancient monitor, a 640&#215;480 beauty that came with my first Mac, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/mac_lc\/stats\/mac_lc_iii.html\">LC III<\/a>. So when Linux boots for the first time, a little bit of the right edge of the screen is obscured. So I play around with the settings.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ve missed something obvious but I don&#8217;t think Linux will really be ready for everyday use until it becomes easy to undo monitor settings mistakes without having to reinstall the entire system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/blogpics\/2003\/6500ydl.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downloaded Yellow Dog Linux for Mac PowerPC over the holiday, taking advantage of the parents&#8217; cable net connection. Thought I&#8217;d try to install it on the old 6500\/250, which is otherwise sitting around gathering dust. Installation was easy (provided I actually read the instructions on occasion). The only problem is that the 6500 is currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}