{"id":35005,"date":"2026-03-13T08:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35005"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:36:24","slug":"tech-shepherd-might-approve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/tech-shepherd-might-approve\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Shepherd Might Approve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after writing the post <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/looking-back\/\" target=\"_new\">yesterday<\/a> about old Commodore computers and magazines, I actually dug into my closet to see if I had the issue of <em>Compute!&#8217;s Gazette<\/em> that Tech Shepherd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techshepherd.org\/techtalk\/language-of-the-future\/\" target=\"_new\">mentioned<\/a> (I do not, at least not at this cursory review).<\/p>\n<p>I did, however, find the Mac Mini that I&#8217;d recently (well, a couple years ago, <em>recent<\/em> in old-timer years) replaced because it would not update.  <em>And<\/em> it had it&#8217;s power cord right atop it.  So I wondered&#8230;.  Could I put Linux on it?<\/p>\n<p>I have two USBs on my desk with bootable Linux distros for installation.  Mint and Ubuntu.  Because we retired a couple of laptops, and when I got my new big box (what, almost a year ago?), I put Mint on the old box (and solved its cranky sound and it needing 45 minutes to boot, so undoubtedly some crypto mining was lost in this event).  And I had Kubuntu on a USB drive because we had a finicky HP laptop&#8230;.  Where has that gone?<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I went into the storeroom and its cable bins, and, brushing aside the tangles of VGA cables, DVI cables, KVM cables, PS\/2 extenders, and other assorted cables and many, many video switchers and KVM switches, I found an HDMI cable to plug it in.  So I&#8230;.  Installed Linux on it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, mostly.  I&#8217;ve swapped a wireless keyboard and mouse combo from another machine (I need to get a couple more wireless laptop\/mouse combos, or I need to find a wireless KVM switch somewhere&#8211;I probably have enough adapters to use a PS\/2 and VGA KVM, actually&#8230;.  Let me go back into the store room&#8230;.)  But!  The old Mac Mini does not have a wireless networking&#8230;  chip?  Too small for a card.  <\/p>\n<p>So I will have to go back into the store room for a networking cable to stretch to the hub.  I do have a couple, and maybe a crossover cable or two, but, ah!  I have given up the kilometer box of Cat5 cable and the connectors I bought around the turn of the century when I thought I might go into networking.  Given the nature of the QA job market, <em>I still might<\/em>.  But the network cables I have are probably a little out-of-date.  Ah, but so is my equipment!  And, maybe, so am I!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after writing the post yesterday about old Commodore computers and magazines, I actually dug into my closet to see if I had the issue of Compute!&#8217;s Gazette that Tech Shepherd mentioned (I do not, at least not at this cursory review). I did, however, find the Mac Mini that I&#8217;d recently (well, a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35007,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35005\/revisions\/35007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}