{"id":1665,"date":"2008-01-30T10:21:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T18:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/30\/vista-is-a-dog\/"},"modified":"2020-03-02T18:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T02:35:56","slug":"vista-is-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/vista-is-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista is a Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just <strike>got<\/strike> <strong>update:<\/strong>returned a new laptop. It has Windows Vista, mostly because getting Windows XP via Dell would have cost $200 EXTRA. Though I heard last night from Rick L that if you call them on the phone and tell them, &#8220;I&#8217;m not buying a computer from you if it has Vista&#8221;, you can get XP at no additional charge.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using Vista for about 1 hr and I&#8217;m just about ready to go back to XP. Vista is very pretty. Performance-wise, it makes my 1.9 Ghz dual core processor feel like a 400Mhz PII. It&#8217;ll often show you a screen but actually it&#8217;s not ready for you to click on it for 3 or 5 or 8 seconds. It&#8217;s very frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>And for the security&#8230; this is how I feel:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mac Ad: Vista Security\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MyGUrPxG1iM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>local version: <div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1665-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/video\/Mac%20Ad-%20Vista%20Security%201-30-08.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/video\/Mac%20Ad-%20Vista%20Security%201-30-08.mp4\">https:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/video\/Mac%20Ad-%20Vista%20Security%201-30-08.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>2-12-08 Followup: <\/strong>I returned the Vista Laptop. Here&#8217;s another humorous video on the subject:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I switched back to XP 3 weeks ago. &#8230;So much happier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>local version: <div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1665-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/video\/Apple%20Get%20a%20Mac%20ad%20-%20Podium%20(2007)%201-30-08.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/video\/Apple%20Get%20a%20Mac%20ad%20-%20Podium%20(2007)%201-30-08.mp4\">http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/video\/Apple%20Get%20a%20Mac%20ad%20-%20Podium%20(2007)%201-30-08.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2-14-08 Followup:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/dereksh.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/14\/vista-really-is-a-dog-isnt-it\/\">Derek<\/a> points us to this one (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZRAUlK8_2VE\">original<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p id=\"player1\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\">Get the latest Flash Player<\/a> to see this player.<\/p>\r\n<noscript><p>[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]<\/p><\/noscript>\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\tdocument.getElementById(\"player1\").style.display = \"\";\r\n\t\r\n\tvar s1 = new SWFObject(\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/flv-embed\/flvplayer.swf\",\"player1\",\"480\",\"380\",\"7\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"wmode\",\"transparent\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"allowscriptaccess\",\"always\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"allowfullscreen\",\"true\");\r\n\ts1.addVariable(\"height\",\"380\");\r\n\ts1.addVariable(\"width\",\"480\"); \n\ts1.addVariable(\"file\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/don_t_give_up_on_vista_ad.flv\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"image\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/don_t_give_up_on_vista_ad.jpg\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"link\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/don_t_give_up_on_vista_ad.flv\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"overstretch\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"showstop\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"showdownload\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"autostart\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"bufferlength\",\"8\");\r\n\ts1.write(\"player1\");\r\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got update:returned a new laptop. It has Windows Vista, mostly because getting Windows XP via Dell would have cost $200 EXTRA. Though I heard last night from Rick L that if you call them on the phone and tell them, &#8220;I&#8217;m not buying a computer from you if it has Vista&#8221;, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6093,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/6093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}