{"id":35009,"date":"2026-03-13T14:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35009"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:39:37","slug":"now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent about 20 minutes yesterday installing Linux Mint on an old, out-of-date Mac Mini <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/tech-shepherd-might-approve\/\" target=\"_new\">as I mentioned<\/a>.  It&#8217;s an older model without a wireless adapter, so I had to connect it to the Internet via network cable.  I stretched an overly long for the distance piece of Cat5 cable between the little box and the hub under the desk, and&#8230;.  It could not find the network.<\/p>\n<p>So I spent a couple hours today going through forums, asking the clankers, and typing Linux commands to troubleshoot the connection.<\/p>\n<p>And then I thought, huh, I what if I just connect it directly to the router on the hutch?  The cable run is about the same.  So I did, and <em>it worked<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Well!  Good to put my A+ Certification to use.  I know, I know!  A+ is computer hardware.  But about the time I got that certificate <em>25 years ago<\/em>, I was still taking networking classes, too.  I did not put them to work (<em>have not had to rely on them for a living yet<\/em>), but I&#8217;ve built computers and pulled cables\/crimped connectors.  But, in the intervening time, I&#8217;ve gotten <strike>old<\/strike> less practiced in it.<\/p>\n<p>So: Now I have another Linux box (the other is a developer-caliber machine with 32Gb of RAM, for example).<\/p>\n<p>What should I do with them?<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing about having a testing lab here is having so many devices that one only uses sporadically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent about 20 minutes yesterday installing Linux Mint on an old, out-of-date Mac Mini as I mentioned. It&#8217;s an older model without a wireless adapter, so I had to connect it to the Internet via network cable. I stretched an overly long for the distance piece of Cat5 cable between the little box and [&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-35009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35009","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=35009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35010,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35009\/revisions\/35010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}