{"id":467,"date":"2008-09-02T20:07:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T03:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=467"},"modified":"2008-09-02T20:07:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T03:07:32","slug":"temporary-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/09\/temporary-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You won&#8217;t believe what I almost did tonight. Excited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/09\/outsourcing-photo-management\/\">a few products<\/a> that are Windows-only, as well as the ability to update the firmware and have more fun with some of my gadgets, I decided tonight would be a good time to pick up a copy of Windows and run it with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/bootcamp.html\">Boot Camp<\/a>. Plus I would get to see what this Vista thing is all about.<\/p>\n<p>But then I did about 30 seconds of research and learned that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Vista has about 18 different versions.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re all expensive.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Not something I feel like dealing with on the first day back from a long weekend. I may give in and buy Windows someday, but not tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Jason suggested that I install Linux instead if I&#8217;m looking to play around with another OS. Some quick searches have suggested that the time I would have to invest into installing it would probably be even worse than the cost of Windows. I don&#8217;t want the OS to be something I have to think about, even if it would give me major geek cred.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sticking with good old OS X for now. Not everything is compatible with Mac, but at least I&#8217;m comfortable with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You won&#8217;t believe what I almost did tonight. Excited by a few products that are Windows-only, as well as the ability to update the firmware and have more fun with some of my gadgets, I decided tonight would be a good time to pick up a copy of Windows and run it with Boot Camp. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/09\/temporary-insanity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Temporary insanity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}