{"id":135,"date":"2006-03-06T04:09:35","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T04:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=135"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:12:27","slug":"go-away-before-i-replace-you-with-a-very-small-shell-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Go Away Before I Replace You With a Very Small Shell Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Above heading found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/homeoffice\/stickers\/28e6\/\">here<\/a> while researching this post&#8230; (For non-techies, a shell script is a small, simple program written to automate repetitive tasks, or replace minimum wage employees ;))<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s been a while since I posted. Man, do people get grumpy when I don&#8217;t post for a while. (CARL!) I&#8217;ve been, well, dunno. I could list any one of busy, broke, tired, sleeping, but honestly I dunno, just getting on with my life. Getting up, going to work, coming home, having dinner, going to bed, sleeping double at the weekends and so on. Sounds kinda dull but I&#8217;m largely happy. I&#8217;m not the youngster I once was. I&#8217;m still cutting my groove, but my priorities have changed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I think I&#8217;m going to get one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts\/frustrations\/388b\/\">these<\/a>. I&#8217;ve had enough of fixing other people&#8217;s PCs. You know, if you&#8217;re going to run Windows and use Internet Explorer without ever doing anything to learn about how to look after it properly, then you&#8217;re asking for trouble. I get quite a few calls a week from some of maybe the 10 or 15 people who consider me their free of charge computer repair man. Stop asking me, I have my own life to live and you&#8217;re eating all of my time and largely, you always have the same problem.<\/p>\n<p>Your computer running slow? Get lots of pop-up ads you didn&#8217;t ask for? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/14\/AR2006021401342.html\">You&#8217;re infected with something<\/a>. Most probably with something that is making your computer do things you don&#8217;t want, like use your internet connection to distribute itself and thats the least scary bit. Use your PC for banking? Your details aren&#8217;t safe. Have a webcam? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/02\/28\/webcam_trojan_case\/\">Neither is your personal privacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that compromised PCs are big business and the problem isn&#8217;t going to go away any time soon while systems are insecure and their owners are lazy.<\/p>\n<p>Look after your PC because I&#8217;m not going to keep bailing you out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above heading found here while researching this post&#8230; (For non-techies, a shell script is a small, simple program written to automate repetitive tasks, or replace minimum wage employees ;)) Yes, it&#8217;s been a while since I posted. Man, do people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}