{"id":2169,"date":"2007-04-09T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T18:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/upgrading_to_20\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T18:38:52","slug":"upgrading_to_20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/upgrading_to_20\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m using an old computer that had 256 MB RAM.  Rightly or wrongly, I decided that adding more RAM might help speed some tasks up. I got on eBay and ordered a 512 MB stick of Kingston.  It arrived today, and I just installed it.<br \/>\nIt took me two attempts to get the machine running.  The first time started it the computer simply sat there beeping.  Apparently, I didn&#8217;t have the memory sticks securely latched in their slots.  I tried again and it now works.<br \/>\nConclusions:<br \/>\n(1)  Too early to tell how it affects system speed.  I haven&#8217;t done memory intensive tasks yet.<br \/>\n(2)  Whoever designed inside the computer box sure didn&#8217;t allow very much room for your hands when installing more memory.<br \/>\n(3)  It sure does get dusty inside a computer if you don&#8217;t clean it for a few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/upgrading_to_20\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Upgrading to 2004\"><p>I&#8217;m using an old computer that had 256 MB RAM. Rightly or wrongly, I decided that adding more RAM might help speed some tasks up. I got on eBay and ordered a 512 MB stick of Kingston. It arrived today, and I just installed it. It took me two attempts to get the machine running. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}