{"id":648,"date":"2004-12-12T13:57:41","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T13:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/kernel-promiscuity\/"},"modified":"2004-12-12T13:57:41","modified_gmt":"2004-12-12T13:57:41","slug":"kernel-promiscuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/kernel-promiscuity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kernel promiscuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stupid little anecdote, probably not funny to anyone but me&#8230;<br \/>\nA friend of mine was telling me about how he recently tried to get all facets of his laptop working under Debian, and hit a couple of brick walls. A couple of Googles later he found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flurble.org\/\" target=\"_new\">someone<\/a> who had successfully got Debian installed on exactly the same model laptop. He was slightly shocked to discover that it was a woman at least 20 years his junior \ud83d\ude42 Swallowing any vestiges of macho-pride, he contacted this &#8220;girl&#8221; and they had a geeky exchange  during which she agreed to send him her .config file. For the uninitaiated, the &#8220;.config&#8221;  is the file that describes how the core, or kernel, of your operating system is to be built. Everyone struggles to perfect their .config, and it can be a very personal, time-consuming journey. And let&#8217;s not even start on the XF86Config&#8230;.shudder&#8230;<br \/>\nHe told me that he felt there was something slightly uncomfortably intimate about being sent a strange girls .config. In his own words, &#8220;it was a bit like asking someone to send you their dirty knickers in the post&#8221;.<br \/>\nI nearly had to change my own pants laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stupid little anecdote, probably not funny to anyone but me&#8230; A friend of mine was telling me about how he recently tried to get all facets of his laptop working under Debian, and hit a couple of brick walls. A couple of Googles later he found someone who had successfully got Debian installed on [&hellip;]<\/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-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}