{"id":936,"date":"2015-04-29T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T01:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=936"},"modified":"2015-04-29T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T01:40:09","slug":"tech-tab-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/tech-tab-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tab Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuportal.com\/2015\/04\/ubuntu-15-04-released-heres-whats-new.html\">It&#8217;s time to upgrade your Ubuntu machines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxandubuntu.com\/home\/8-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-1504-vivd-vervet\">8 things to do after installing Ubuntu 15.04<\/a>. One of the items is to add a tweak tool, which reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webupd8.org\/2015\/04\/unsettings-010-released-with-ubuntu.html\">Unsettings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on a similar list for Windows, except (a) nobody gets to install Windows, you have to buy a PC with it preinstalled, and (b) there are about 300 things you have to do next.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Ubuntu&hellip;. I barely know what a <code>.deb<\/code> is, so this article was complete gibberish to me, with all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/article\/2914850\/linux\/is-ubuntu-moving-away-from-deb-packages-here-is-the-complete-story.html\">this talk about Snaps and Snappy for future releases of Ubuntu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bjarne Stroustrup outlines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/04\/27\/c_daddy_bjarne_stroustrup_outlines_directions_for_v17\/\">changes in store for C++ in v17<\/a>. I can barely remember how awesome I used to think C++ was back in 1986. And compared to C, I guess is was, then. Today&mdash;forget about it. Just give me a scripting language.<\/p>\n<p>Finally: During the 1990&#8217;s I used to be a DIY system builder, but the past decade or two I&#8217;ve been too busy and too impoverished. And there&#8217;s a lot to be said for <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxgizmos.com\/tiniest-mini-pc-with-a-quad-core-arm-soc-and-4gb-ram\/\">buying something small<\/a>. Still, I might get around to building something again someday. This sounds like fun:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0KUpRXRGVHU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to upgrade your Ubuntu machines. 8 things to do after installing Ubuntu 15.04. One of the items is to add a tweak tool, which reminded me of Unsettings. I&#8217;m working on a similar list for Windows, except (a) nobody gets to install Windows, you have to buy a PC with it preinstalled, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[852,705,379,428,470],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-c","tag-diy","tag-linux-2","tag-ubuntu","tag-windows-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-f6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}