{"id":2383,"date":"2012-09-25T15:27:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2012-09-25T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T20:49:20","slug":"turning-a-light-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=2383","title":{"rendered":"Turning a Light On"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>This is the CD drive I took out of my &#8220;SandBox&#8221;computer. It had a fairly severe buzz and vibration noise and I was afraid I would lose its use just when I needed it the most. Like loading or reloading an OP system. Yes, It is a Lite-On brand but it was the cheapest drive of that brand I could find. It is true you get just what you pay, doesn&#8217;t matter who made or sells it.<\/p>\n<p>I think it was less than $15.00 so not worth returning. It was 3 years old or so anyway. I thought I would take a look inside the case. There is a sound inside just handling the drive. It sounded like small ball bearings rolling or sliding around inside something, but nothing like that was falling out. Just tip the case from side to side and I could hear it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I can use the laser diode for something, like burning a hole in my cornea. Hmm&#8230; better not do that. Just look at the pictures, it&#8217;s safer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the CD drive I took out of my &#8220;SandBox&#8221;computer. It had a fairly severe buzz and vibration noise and I was afraid I would lose its use just when I needed it the most. Like loading or reloading an OP system. Yes, It is a Lite-On brand but it was the cheapest drive of that brand I could find. It is true you get just what you pay, doesn&#8217;t matter who made or&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersoftware","category-observation","tag-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}