{"id":215,"date":"2008-04-21T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/computer-follies\/carry-on-my-wayward-what\/"},"modified":"2019-04-13T10:28:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T17:28:48","slug":"carry-on-my-wayward-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"carry on my wayward&#8230;  what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m still fiddling around with Vista.<\/p>\n<p>It is nowhere near as annoying as I feared it would be, but it&#8217;s just another iteration of Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;You are too stupid to figure anything out for yourself&#8221; mind-set, and therefore falls all over itself trying to protect the user from ever having to oh, actually think.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve shut off as many of those annoyances as I can, but I still haven&#8217;t been able to create new user accounts that work.  I ran into a problem with Office 2000 (not enough memory, my ass) but found a workaround.  Adobe 8 didn&#8217;t want to install itself right away, but Vista sent it out for updates and then it worked fine.<\/p>\n<p>I have had no problems with installing anything so far, either from my own disks or downloaded.  Of course, I haven&#8217;t had time to put it to any really extensive tests.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t see any reason why anyone would want to run right out and buy this, but then again I never figured out why so many <strike>suck<\/strike> uh, people wanted to stand in line for Windows 95, either.<\/p>\n<p><small><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo_dropper\/images\/cc.gif\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" border=\"0\" \/> photo credit: \u00e2\u201a\u00a3\u00d2\u00a3\u00d1\u201d\u00d1\u008f \u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m still fiddling around with Vista. It is nowhere near as annoying as I feared it would be, but it&#8217;s just another iteration of Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;You are too stupid to figure anything out for yourself&#8221; mind-set, and therefore falls &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=215\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[56,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}