{"id":769,"date":"2015-03-14T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T22:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=769"},"modified":"2015-03-14T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T22:36:15","slug":"broken-workstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/03\/14\/broken-workstation\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Workstation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;\">I&#8217;m still operating in crippled mode here, my 1680&#215;1050 monitor is operating at 1024&#215;768 because Ubuntu issued an update that blew out my Nvidia drivers, my pre-emptive kernel, my nx-libs which freenx and x2go rely on, among other things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;\">I can not get nvidia&#8217;s drivers from their website installed and the ones that are provided with the Ubuntu distribution never did work properly with my graphics card (an antique GT7300).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;\">I&#8217;ve complete rebuilt the kernel and they still won&#8217;t install although the original problem they complained about is gone.\u00a0 Frustrating!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still operating in crippled mode here, my 1680&#215;1050 monitor is operating at 1024&#215;768 because Ubuntu issued an update that blew out my Nvidia drivers, my pre-emptive kernel, my nx-libs which freenx and x2go rely on, among other things. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/03\/14\/broken-workstation\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}