{"id":3465,"date":"2004-07-09T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-10T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2021-06-06T22:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T02:01:04","slug":"no-turning-back-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/07\/09\/no-turning-back-now\/","title":{"rendered":"No Turning Back Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/applebug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Actually there technically is\u2026but I won&#8217;t. My main computer, an IBM desktop PC running Windows XP and Windows 2000, has died. I can&#8217;t get a POST, I can&#8217;t a start-up screen. I thought it might be the power supply, so I ordered a new one. It came last night, I installed it, and there was no change.  Still no POST, still no start-up screen. I&#8217;m pretty sure the drives are fine, but which means it might be the RAM, the processor, or the motherboard\u2026which are all items I have no interest in re-buying.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; So it looks like I&#8217;m off to The Apple Store in Novi this weekend!<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Microsoft can kiss my rump &#8212; <u><i>I&#8217;m ordering me a dual processor G5<\/i><\/u>!!!!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Actually there technically is\u2026but I won&#8217;t. My main computer, an IBM desktop PC running Windows XP and Windows 2000, has died. I can&#8217;t get a POST, I can&#8217;t a start-up screen. I thought it might be the power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/07\/09\/no-turning-back-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}