{"id":17,"date":"2004-01-19T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/cf\/?p=17"},"modified":"2004-01-19T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-19T18:13:00","slug":"can-you-read-it-now-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/can-you-read-it-now-good.html","title":{"rendered":"Can You Read It Now? Good."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, I didn&#8217;t actually have to reinstall Linux on the old Mac. When I initially tried changing monitor resolutions, I noted a message that said that the old settings were being saved to some file with a .backup extension. Fortunately before I started playing with the monitor I&#8217;d already networked the 6500 and my G4. So I logged in to the Linux from the G4, did a massive search for any file that ended in &#8220;.backup&#8221; and found it.<\/p>\n<p>Restoring the file didn&#8217;t do any good, but at least I now knew which file to fiddle with to get the monitor back. It took some trial and error and plenty of restarts to get it right.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, I didn&#8217;t have to reinstall, but that&#8217;s still way too much work. It&#8217;s kinda neat that I CAN do it that way, but it&#8217;s a pain that I HAVE to do it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, I didn&#8217;t actually have to reinstall Linux on the old Mac. When I initially tried changing monitor resolutions, I noted a message that said that the old settings were being saved to some file with a .backup extension. Fortunately before I started playing with the monitor I&#8217;d already networked the 6500 and my G4. [&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-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}