{"id":11245,"date":"2011-01-17T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11245"},"modified":"2011-01-17T10:14:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:14:01","slug":"mechanical-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11245","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blasterd.jpg\" align=right style=\"border:none\" width=200><br \/>\nQ: What's the difference between a Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer half-height PCI sound card (pictured) and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcisig.com\/news_room\/faqs\/#low_profile_pci\">\"low profile\"<\/a> Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer PCI sound card? <\/p>\n<p>A: 10 minutes cutting down that metal bracket with a Dremel and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fibre-Disc-1-1-2-2cd\/dp\/B0006OBLXU\">fiber-reinforced cutting disk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of stinging sparks and flying metal fragments. But now I will be able to start working on another Name That Tune! (Damn you Dell, for your cheap on-board sound systems that don't support recording what the speakers are playing! And damn you, sound card industry, for not making more low profile PCI sound cards!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What's the difference between a Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer half-height PCI sound card (pictured) and a \"low profile\" Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer PCI sound card? A: 10 minutes cutting down that metal bracket with a Dremel and a fiber-reinforced cutting disk. Lots of stinging sparks and flying metal fragments. But now I will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}