{"id":313,"date":"2004-10-23T23:36:37","date_gmt":"2004-10-24T06:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?p=313"},"modified":"2004-10-23T23:48:57","modified_gmt":"2004-10-24T06:48:57","slug":"i-hate-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"I hate Windows."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the tyranny it imposes. So I got my gadget (and boy does it take crummy pictures) but downloading the pictures required playing with several different computers. Most of my computers are legacy devices, well, they&#8217;re really just junk that my friends no longer wanted. Getting them to work is sometimes a chore. Most of the time I just run NetBSD or something on them and I have no problem, but when I need to run Windows, it&#8217;s a real pain.<\/p>\n<p>I had to run Windows to get the files off of my new Olympus W-10 toy since it&#8217;s not Mac compatible. Here&#8217;s a picture of my neighbor&#8217;s house with a blue tarp on it:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/erics.jpg\"><br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t even see the blue tarp that he has to keep the water out of his house while it&#8217;s being renovated.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s one of a fountain:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/fountain.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I barely manipulated the levels of the pictures. I didn&#8217;t expect them to be very good, and they&#8217;re not. But it&#8217;s really for recording notes, and her&#8217;s a <a href=\"\/images\/test.wav\">recording done at &#8220;HQ&#8221; (high) quality.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sure beats showing you the junk I got at the ham radio show ($170 worth of cables and connectors.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the tyranny it imposes. So I got my gadget (and boy does it take crummy pictures) but downloading the pictures required playing with several different computers. Most of my computers are legacy devices, well, they&#8217;re really just junk that my friends no longer wanted. Getting them to work is sometimes a chore. Most of the time I just run NetBSD or something on them and I have no problem, but when I need to run Windows, it&#8217;s a real pain. I had to run Windows to get the files off of my new Olympus W-10 toy since it&#8217;s not Mac compatible. Here&#8217;s a picture of my neighbor&#8217;s house with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I hate Windows.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}