{"id":299,"date":"2007-10-13T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T16:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=299"},"modified":"2025-01-13T22:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T22:50:01","slug":"oh-what-a-tangled-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Oh, what a tangled web."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I was working on a slide-deck I have to have done for work on Monday, and I realized I should blog about the iPod Touch I just got &#8212; capsule summary: I like it; more later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started up my browser and logged into this site, then realized<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I was really just going to enter some text into the G5 box sitting beside me&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>but I was talking to a webserver that is running on it&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>that I found by looking up &#8220;mikew.ca&#8221; on the internet&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>by typing into Firefox&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>which is running in Windows 2000&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>which is running in a virtual image on my Mac laptop (using Parallels Desktop)&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>which is sitting on a shelf in my basement&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>so I&#8217;m talking to it (the laptop) via a VNC client&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>that&#8217;s running on my Vista gaming PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazingly, I&#8217;m getting perfectly reasonable performance out of this setup. <em>[Ken, with reference to previous conversations we&#8217;ve had, I believe VNC running on Vista is faster than on XP.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering though, no, that&#8217;s not how I normally work. It was a side-effect of needing a VPN connection to IBM (which I only have on the laptop) to get some data for the slide-deck, plus accidentally running Firefox in Win2K (which I had going to read Notes mail).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t the journey always supposed to be more exciting than the destination. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was working on a slide-deck I have to have done for work on Monday, and I realized I should blog about the iPod Touch I just got &#8212; capsule summary: I like it; more later. I started up my browser and logged into this site, then realized Amazingly, I&#8217;m getting perfectly reasonable performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}