{"id":356,"date":"2008-07-05T16:46:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T22:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/?p=356"},"modified":"2008-07-05T16:46:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T22:46:19","slug":"whipping-vista-sorta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/whipping-vista-sorta-356","title":{"rendered":"Whipping Vista, sorta&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vista is crap. Let me just lead with that. I got all excited about the possibility of downgrading to XP, but my hopes were dashed like so many Hobbits on the rocks after reading that Home Premium wasn&#8217;t one of the versions included in the offer.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll have to\u00a0move my expensive-as-crap XP Pro license from my desktop to my laptop, and I guess just be happy with a KDE desktop downstairs or something. I don&#8217;t delude myself that I&#8217;ll have time to do that anytime soon, though, so in the meantime I&#8217;ll have to be stuck with Microsoft&#8217;s most miserable excuse for an OS yet.<\/p>\n<p>Today I learned something new about the crappy thing, though, that brings it a bug&#8217;s hair closer to the pathetic\/miserable\u00a0threshold (it still has miles to go before I&#8217;ll consider it good enough to be a <em>pathetic<\/em> OS): how to permanently unblock an application Vista won&#8217;t stop bitching about, no matter how many times you uncheck the &#8220;always annoy me about this&#8221; checkbox or click the &#8220;freaking unblock this application&#8221; button. It&#8217;s a simple fix, really, but to a problem that (in Microsoft&#8217;s typical fashion) is remarkably stupid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertwoodward.com\/index.php\/5.html\">http:\/\/www.robertwoodward.com\/index.php\/5.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This example is a discussion of unblocking the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiark.greenend.org.uk\/~sgtatham\/putty\/\">PuTTY<\/a> SSH\/Telnet client, but it should work in most similar situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vista is crap. Let me just lead with that. I got all excited about the possibility of downgrading to XP, but my hopes were dashed like so many Hobbits on the rocks after reading that Home Premium wasn&#8217;t one of the versions included in the offer. So I&#8217;ll have to\u00a0move my expensive-as-crap XP Pro license [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}