{"id":1826,"date":"2004-09-12T23:50:17","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T04:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=571"},"modified":"2004-09-12T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T04:50:17","slug":"two-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"Two Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two words you almost never want to hear from someone who is working on a computer, a car, or a cardiac bypass:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s strange&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe only reason I bring this up is that the house computer has locked up mysteriously twice today, and I&#8217;m not sure why.  It&#8217;s a semi-ancient <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=43117\">Powerbook G3<\/a> running OS 10.2.8.  It&#8217;s got a USB adapter card and I&#8217;d had it hooked up to a Lexmark Z53 inkjet printer with printer sharing turned on&#8230;  And I <i>think<\/i> that&#8217;s where things start breaking.  Yesterday&#8217;s lock-ups coincided with me attempting to print a couple of PDF files.  The first one came out fine, but it just stopped about half way through the second.  I finally wound up just powering everything down and hooking the printer directly to the machine I was printing from.<\/p>\n<p>Worst part of it is, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be anything wrong in any of the system logs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two words you almost never want to hear from someone who is working on a computer, a car, or a cardiac bypass: &#8220;That&#8217;s strange&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-technical-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}