{"id":244,"date":"2008-07-24T03:25:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T11:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=244"},"modified":"2009-09-23T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T05:03:40","slug":"driven-to-distruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Driven to Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yester-day or the day before that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/\"><abbr title=\"Advanced Micro Devices\">AMD<\/abbr><\/a> made available <a href=\"http:\/\/ati.amd.com\/support\/drivers\/linux\/linux-radeon.html\">a new version of their Linux driver for the graphics adapter in my note-book computer<\/a>.  I was pleased, as I hoped that it would eliminated <a href=\"?p=186\">the logging-out problem that I've been having<\/a>. (This problem did <em>not<\/em> go away when I up-dated my driver on 6 July.)<\/p> <p>Well, things have <em>changed<\/em> with the new driver, but seemingly for the worse.  I'm still logged-out when using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/all.html\">Firefox<\/a> with some webpages, but now the display ends-up blanked and effectively disabled, so that I have to completely restart the system. (Perhaps the <em>frequency<\/em> of being logged-out has been reduced.)<\/p> <p>Oh well.  I will hope that the <em>next<\/em> driver up-date resolves the problem.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yester-day or the day before that, AMD made available a new version of their Linux driver for the graphics adapter in my note-book computer. I was pleased, as I hoped that it would eliminated the logging-out problem that I've been having. (This problem did not go away when I up-dated my driver on 6 July.) [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5,4],"tags":[294,295,253,72],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-personal","category-public","tag-amd","tag-ati","tag-firefox","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}