{"id":49,"date":"2009-10-26T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=49"},"modified":"2012-07-24T20:01:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T00:01:11","slug":"well-this-isnt-encouraging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Well, this isn&#8217;t encouraging&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just stopped by our IT department at work; our sysadmin guru was installing Windows 7 on a test PC (one of our standard configurations &#8212; a Dell GX620.) According to him, it had already bluescreened once on him. While I was there, he was running into a bunch of other errors &#8212; during the install process. Admittedly, he was trying to upgrade an existing XP installation, but this is still not a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>Very often, Windows installation errors are due to user error; I&#8217;ve seen this happen many times. But this guy knows his stuff &#8212; if he made a mistake, it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s there waiting to be made.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like XP or Linux for the foreseeable future, for me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early install of Windows 7 doesn&#8217;t exactly seem to be going smoothly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=49\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drexel","category-sysadmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}