{"id":107,"date":"2008-10-14T01:25:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T01:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-10-14T01:25:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T01:25:55","slug":"working-on-a-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/107\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on a demo. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/cialug.org\">Central Iowa Linux User\u2019s Group<\/a> meeting this Wednesday (10\/15), the theme is \u201cLinux Gaming.\u201d  I intend to demo the <a href=\"http:\/\/live.linux-gamers.net\">Linux Gamers Live <span class=\"caps\">DVD<\/span><\/a> on an older <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> 2 GHz box I have.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with that?  I need a better video card, more <span class=\"caps\">RAM<\/span> and to download the bootable iso!  The on-board <span class=\"caps\">SIS<\/span> video sucks for gaming, the system has only 512 MB of <span class=\"caps\">RAM<\/span> installed, and I deleted my copy of the iso file a couple of weeks ago, thinking I wouldn\u2019t need it. . .<\/p>\n<p>I managed to purchase an <span class=\"caps\">ATI<\/span> Radeon X1550 this afternoon, so that\u2019s one thing off the list.  I\u2019m downloading the 3+ GB iso image as I type this.  The only thing left is the <span class=\"caps\">RAM<\/span>.  I went to two local computer shops today and neither had the <span class=\"caps\">RAM<\/span> I need (either PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200).  I\u2019ve got one more local shop to check tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Central Iowa Linux User\u2019s Group meeting this Wednesday (10\/15), the theme is \u201cLinux Gaming.\u201d I intend to demo the Linux Gamers Live DVD on an older AMD 2 GHz box I have. The problem with that? I need a better video card, more RAM and to download the bootable iso! The on-board SIS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,10],"tags":[55,244,195],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-technology","category-writings","tag-cialug","tag-linux","tag-technology-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}