{"id":14,"date":"2006-04-30T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-04-30T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T12:51:00","slug":"the-charm-of-old-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"The Charm  of Old School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I visited the shack  of  OM VU2JN and helped him with configuring his Debian GNU\/Linux. This is third time I am meeting him, even though we have corresponded for some time . I am pretty  impressed with his shack  and his  old school methods. He is around  70 and still one of the finest geek I have ever met. He has a triple  boot machine which runs dos, widows98 and Debian GNU Linux. His hardware is Pentium 233 with 64mb ram. Some of the programs he uses reminded me of my own early adventures with computers,especially of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digger.org\/\"> digger <\/a>.  I am sure of  one thing, he is more comfortable with command line than GUI . I installed  echolink under wine and  introduced him to icewm.<br \/>\nHe has a lot of homebrew equipment lying around,  I have promised him to help him further.<br \/>\nAlso , I found out that he has good interests in  classical music.   I have given him  my entire music collection.<br \/>\nHe presented me a copy of MS Subbalakshmi&#8217;s classic movie &#8220;Meera&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I visited the shack of OM VU2JN and helped him with configuring his Debian GNU\/Linux. This is third time I am meeting him, even though we have corresponded for some time . I am pretty impressed with his shack and his old school methods. He is around 70 and still one of the finest&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=14\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Charm  of Old School<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}