{"id":75,"date":"2009-03-17T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/a-boring-one-but-whatever\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T01:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:53:00","slug":"boring-one-but-whatever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/boring-one-but-whatever.html","title":{"rendered":"A boring one&#8230; but whatever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I used to be a Windows user in my lesser days. Any way, two years have gone by since I switched full-time to Ubuntu, I haven&#8217;t found a replacement for Quicken until now. (I was listening to the Moody Blues and it just came to me&#8230; Online banking! Yippie!) So here&#8217;s what I did to install GNUCash in case I forget later.<\/p>\n<p>first of all, (can I put code tags in this? I&#8217;m going to try.)<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>sudo apt-get install gnucash<br \/><\/code><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if that worked later. But you get the idea. Any way, this is what I came up with. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the first thing the program did after I opened it! Almost nothing. About par for the course for an open-source program though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_GM6QpBz2vrI\/Sb8E7xHC_sI\/AAAAAAAAADI\/Z-zREx326BY\/s1600-h\/11.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 247px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_GM6QpBz2vrI\/Sb8E7xHC_sI\/AAAAAAAAADI\/Z-zREx326BY\/s320\/11.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313971510162161346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Not even a wizard to show me the ropes. After some Googling, I found the wizard, which wasn&#8217;t actually much help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_GM6QpBz2vrI\/Sb8E7KNkvII\/AAAAAAAAADA\/s173AKNMT40\/s1600-h\/1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 258px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_GM6QpBz2vrI\/Sb8E7KNkvII\/AAAAAAAAADA\/s173AKNMT40\/s320\/1.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313971499720555650\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>So yeah. The wizard wasn&#8217;t very self-explanatory. I used <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.gnucash.org\/wiki\/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect_in_GnuCash_2#Where_to_find_connection_info\">this Wiki<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ofxblog.wordpress.com\/?s=BB%26amp%3BT\">this blog of all necessary banking information and numbers and such<\/a> to find the necessary information on my bank, because apparently BB&amp;T isn&#8217;t a large enough bank to be listed on that wiki, and because this program isn&#8217;t as intuative as Quicken and has all the monotonous banking numbers built in already. Whatever. Google helps.<\/p>\n<p>After plugging all the numbers in and then hitting the &#8220;Get Accounts&#8221; button on the &#8220;User Configuration&#8221; tab of the setup wizard, I think I&#8217;m good to go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not good to go yet. Something isn&#8217;t jiving and it&#8217;s too late to fix. Peace out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I used to be a Windows user in my lesser days. Any way, two years have gone by since I switched full-time to Ubuntu, I haven&#8217;t found a replacement for Quicken until now. (I was listening to the Moody Blues and it just came to me&#8230; Online banking! Yippie!) So here&#8217;s what I did &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/boring-one-but-whatever.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A boring one&#8230; but whatever.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}