{"id":2704,"date":"2012-06-14T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2012-06-14T16:50:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T21:50:30","slug":"printers-and-modems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2704","title":{"rendered":"Printers and Modems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: about 1.5 miles]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in the &#8220;IT&#8221; business about 25 years now.\u00a0 I started as a programmer and somehow ended up more on the system administration end.<\/p>\n<p>Two technologies have haunted me for nearly that whole period of time.\u00a0 Those are Printers and Modems.<\/p>\n<p>When things work then life is smooth.\u00a0 The paper comes out of the Printers.\u00a0 The Modems talk to each other.\u00a0 Everything is happy.\u00a0 But when they don&#8217;t work it can be a real bear to try to figure out why.<\/p>\n<p>Technology has moved along over that time.\u00a0 People don&#8217;t use telephone modems very much anymore.\u00a0 And printers almost never cause problems.\u00a0 Then one day I&#8217;ll find out that something isn&#8217;t working right with a Printer or, even worse, a Modem.\u00a0 If it takes more than a power-cycle to fix then you are in deep trouble because not many people know much about the old techniques of troubleshooting and debugging.<\/p>\n<p>No.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t own an RS-232 breakout box.\u00a0 Do you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: about 1.5 miles] I&#8217;ve been in the &#8220;IT&#8221; business about 25 years now.\u00a0 I started as a programmer and somehow ended up more on the system administration end. Two technologies have haunted me for nearly that whole period of time.\u00a0 Those are Printers and Modems. When things work then life is smooth.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}