{"id":618,"date":"2002-07-15T05:23:14","date_gmt":"2002-07-15T19:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/it-just-works\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:01:14","slug":"it-just-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/it-just-works\/","title":{"rendered":"It just works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16027,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.oreillynet.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.oreillynet.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16028,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.oreillynet.com\\\/pub\\\/wlg\\\/1683&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130115134806\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.oreillynet.com\\\/pub\\\/wlg\\\/1683&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:11:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 15:07:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 15:07:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15189,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.daypop.com\\\/top&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20070607071015\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.daypop.com\\\/top\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:59:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 15:45:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 15:07:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 04:57:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 04:57:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Nathan Torkington, one of the staff over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/\" title=\"O'Reilly Network\">O&#8217;Reilly<\/a> is documenting his experiences as he moves from a Windows-based PC to an Apple iBook. Gotta love articles that state:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I plugged in the digital video camera (editing be damned!) and it Just Worked. I built <code>wget<\/code> and it Just Worked. I downloaded VM and it Just Worked. I plugged in a three-button mouse and it Just Worked. I came to realize something: I&#8217;d been with Microsoft for so long, who are complacent and hoard their customers, that I&#8217;d forgotten what it&#8217;s like to use an operating system built by people who want it to cooperate with the rest of the world. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/wlg\/1683\" title=\"O'Reilly: OS X Day 1: Enter the iBook\">It&#8217;s good<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daypop.com\/top\/\" title=\"Daypop top 40\">Daypop<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been with Microsoft for so long, who are complacent and hoard their customers, that I&#8217;d forgotten what it&#8217;s like to use an operating system built by people who want it to cooperate with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}