{"id":2102,"date":"2008-10-23T19:40:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T17:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2008-08-23T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T17:50:09","slug":"write-down-everything-to-ease-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/23\/write-down-everything-to-ease-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Write down everything to ease maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some have been surprised by one little habit of mine around my PC (I should say &#8216;my PCs&#8221;): I keep a detailled log of everything I do on my PC in a plain old school paper book. It may be a software installation, a parameter change on another software package, the update of a driver. Everything goes in there.<\/p>\n<p>Main advantage: When my PC stops working perfectly, I can easily recognize what changed. Usually, I (like everybody else) say that I did not touch anaything before it stopped working. Bit when I check, I can find wat I did.<\/p>\n<p>It also works for the configuration of a Local Area Network&#8230; even in a company. But beware of not writing down passwords that would then be left in an open paper book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some have been surprised by one little habit of mine around my PC (I should say &#8216;my PCs&#8221;): I keep a detailled log of everything I do on my PC in a plain old school paper book. It may be a software installation, a parameter change on another software package, the update of a driver. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,43,13,79,34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-enterprise","category-routers-networks","category-security","category-tech","category-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}