{"id":1710,"date":"2005-09-12T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1710.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"mac-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/09\/12\/mac-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2005\/09\/macmini.jpg\" alt=\"My new Mac Mini\" style=\"border:1px dotted #000;padding:4px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Update (late, late in the evening):<\/b> Oh no.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It works.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s beautiful.<\/li>\n<li>Q: <code>whereis ruby<\/code>?  A: <code>\/usr\/bin\/ruby<\/code>.  Yum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s bad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My shiny new 21&#8243; flat panel monitor has died on me.  Well, partly died.  It&#8217;s not accepting any signals over DVI any more, only VGA.  Crap.  Fortunately, it&#8217;s still well within its warranty period.<\/li>\n<li>The Mini isn&#8217;t automatically detecting the monitor&#8217;s native resolution of 1680 x 1050, and I don&#8217;t know enough about OS X to change the resolution to something non-standard.  So I&#8217;m running in  crappy 1400 x 1050 fuzz-o-vision right now.<\/li>\n<li>Actually, I don&#8217;t know enough about OS X, <em>period<\/em>.  (How does this dock thing <em>really<\/em> work?  What&#8217;s the right way to install applications?)  Anyone with Mac experience care to recommend a decent book?<\/li>\n<li>I got myself a new Apple Pro keyboard aaaaand&#8230;.mmmm&#8230;not convinced yet.  I like the keyboard action, but I don&#8217;t like not having anythere to rest my right hand&#8217;s fingers nearby the arrow keys without them getting caught in the grooves.<\/li>\n<li>And what the hell&#8217;s up with putting the @ sign over the number 2 key?  Yuck.  (Again, anyone with Mac experience&#8230;please point me in the direction of a keyboard remapping utility.)<\/li>\n<li>And the mental gymnastics of getting used to a different set of command keys&#8230; Yurkle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yes. Update (late, late in the evening): Oh no. What&#8217;s good: It works. It&#8217;s beautiful. Q: whereis ruby? A: \/usr\/bin\/ruby. Yum. What&#8217;s bad: My shiny new 21&#8243; flat panel monitor has died on me. Well, partly died. It&#8217;s not accepting any signals over DVI any more, only VGA. Crap. Fortunately, it&#8217;s still well within &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/09\/12\/mac-mini\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mac Mini&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,128,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-gadget_fever","category-techie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}