{"id":1232,"date":"2007-02-17T02:47:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/on-operating-sy\/"},"modified":"2007-02-17T02:47:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T02:47:11","slug":"on-operating-sy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/on-operating-sy\/","title":{"rendered":"On Operating Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to be excited about Vista.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I brought my Mac Mini into school&nbsp;yesterday and I introduced it.&nbsp; At the same time, I gave every class a short &#8220;lecture&#8221; on my opinion of operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s it is for the readers.<\/p>\n<p>I can only think of four operating systems I&#8217;ve liked.&nbsp; Novell 3.11, the Novell that is currently running on the server, I think 5.6, but don&#8217;t quote me on it, Windows 98 SP 2, and Windows XP SP 2.<\/p>\n<p>So what do the 4 operating systems have in common?&nbsp; Other than the fact, that most of the time they work, they aren&#8217;t a X.0 version.&nbsp; I hate X.0 versions of all software, they never work.<\/p>\n<p>Software is exactly like pharmaticuals.&nbsp; You have no clue what they are going to do and if they are going to work until they are out in the wild.&nbsp; SP1 and SP2 are direct results of all the bugs found out in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>So me, I&#8217;m waiting for Vista SP 2, or even 1.&nbsp; If I have to buy a new computer, yeah, I&#8217;ll get stuck with it until they fix it.&nbsp; In the meantime, I&#8217;ll run Windows XP SP2.<\/p>\n<p>And why don&#8217;t I like Linux, even though it&#8217;s free?&nbsp; It&#8217;s a PITA to set up.&nbsp; Operating systems should be no-brainers, in fact ALL software should be no-brainers.&nbsp; It should just work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to be excited about Vista.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not.&nbsp; I brought my Mac Mini into school&nbsp;yesterday and I introduced it.&nbsp; At the same time, I gave every class a short &#8220;lecture&#8221; on my opinion of operating systems. Here&#8217;s it is for the readers. I can only think of four operating systems I&#8217;ve liked.&nbsp; Novell 3.11, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}