{"id":42,"date":"2008-01-05T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=42"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:36:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:36:15","slug":"new-year-new-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"New Year, New Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During some of the Christmas downtime, when weather made indoors more enticing than outdoors, I finally got around to installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\" Target=\"Offsite\">Leopard<\/a> on my PowerBook.  I&#8217;ve been running it at work for a couple of months, so I knew what to expect, but I installed it anyway.  I&#8217;m not sure why.  I guess because since I had bought it, I might as well use it.  Or maybe I&#8217;ve just drunk too much of the Apple Kool-Aid, and can&#8217;t resist the urge to keep up with their latest glitzy offering (although I have resisted the iPhone so far).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Before installing it at work, I looked at the list of <a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/\" Target=\"Offsite\">text<\/a>&#8221; Target=&#8221;Offsite&#8221;>300 new features<\/a>, and tried to figure out how many of them I would actually use.  I couldn&#8217;t find many that really justified the installation.  Some of the most impressive enhancements are in applications that I never use anyway. But since I wasn&#8217;t paying for the work system,  I figured I might as well waste some time installing it.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd after using Leopard for a couple of months at work, and barely noticing any difference between it and Tiger, I decided to install it at home anyway.  And so far, I haven&#8217;t noticed much difference at home either.  I have started using Time Machine, which might justify the upgrade price by itself.  Backup is always good, especially on a laptop where disk failures are more likely.  The Time Machine automated incremental system is nice, since backups that reply on manual action usually don&#8217;t get done.  But the fancy interface for displaying and selecting backups is just a waste.  Just give me list of available backups and let me choose one, and spend the design time wasted on that gorgeous 3-D interface on something really useful.<\/p>\n<p>\nMaybe I&#8217;m just getting to that stage of life where I&#8217;m resistant to change.  The systems I&#8217;ve been using suit me just fine, and I don&#8217;t want to be bothered with learning how to use all this razzle-dazzle new technology, even if it is better.  On the other hand, maybe it is a lot of flash and no substance, packaged to sell to today&#8217;s market that likes anything shiny and new without the time to see if it&#8217;s really offering anything useful.  That certainly seems to be a successful strategy recently.  It even worked in Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During some of the Christmas downtime, when weather made indoors more enticing than outdoors, I finally got around to installing Leopard on my PowerBook. I&#8217;ve been running it at work for a couple of months, so I knew what to expect, but I installed it anyway. I&#8217;m not sure why. I guess because since I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=42\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Year, New Software<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}