{"id":2183,"date":"2003-08-05T11:51:40","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T14:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=538"},"modified":"2003-08-05T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2003-08-05T14:51:40","slug":"vade-retro-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/08\/05\/vade-retro-windows-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Vade retro, Windows XP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never used Windows XP, although I&#8217;ve seen friends using it&#8230; after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/\">Mark Pilgrim<\/a>&#8216;s revealing post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2003\/08\/04\/xp\">How to install Windows XP in 5 hours or less<\/a>&#8220;, I resolved to never touch it in the future, either.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n43. Install Mozilla. Yes, I would like to make you my default browser. The world is happiness and glee.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n44. &#8220;Take a tour of Windows XP!&#8221; Sigh.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n45. &#8220;30 days left for activation!&#8221; Click. Yes, I would like to activate Windows over an active internet connection, now that I have one. No, I would not like to register with Microsoft. Yes, I have read the privacy statement and agree to give up my computer, my civil rights, and my first-born child. I wasn&#8217;t using my civil rights anyway.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n53. Yes, I agree to bend over, grease up, and accept the End User License Agreement.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n54. Wait. Time passes.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n55. Wait. Time passes.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n56. Wait. Time passes. It is getting dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n57. Reboot.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n58. &#8220;Take a tour of Windows XP!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It took 147 steps. Admittedly, this is a not-very-standard installation for a job he needs to do specifically on XP&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never used Windows XP, although I&#8217;ve seen friends using it&#8230; after reading Mark Pilgrim&#8216;s revealing post &#8220;How to install Windows XP in 5 hours or less&#8220;, I resolved to never touch it in the future, either. &#8230; 43. Install Mozilla. Yes, I would like to make you my default browser. The world is happiness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-zd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}