{"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":"<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":[],"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"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}]}}