{"id":66,"date":"2009-02-27T00:20:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T13:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-02-27T00:29:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T13:29:24","slug":"niggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/2009\/02\/niggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Niggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Why does Adobe Read\u00ader 9 come with AIR? Mmm, pro\u00adlif\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. Unin\u00adstalled immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Why do so many installers assume I\u2019m will\u00ading to grant them net access? What exact\u00adly are you doing? BTW, I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/\">VLC<\/a>\u2019s approach to this: a mes\u00adsage from the devs say\u00ading they hate apps con\u00adnect\u00ading to the net auto\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly&nbsp;too.<\/li>\n<li>Why do apps ignore my pref\u00ader\u00adence for stan\u00addard antialias\u00ading? This includes IE8 (which has an \u2018always use Cleartype for HTML\u2019 option buried in Advanced options), <strike>Acro\u00adbat<\/strike> Adobe Read\u00ader and the MS Live installer.<\/li>\n<li>Sil\u00adverlight install requests. I hate <a href=\"http:\/\/get.adobe.com\/flashplayer\/\">monop\u00ado\u00adlies<\/a> too, but I\u2019m not encour\u00adag\u00ading anoth\u00ader pro\u00adpri\u00adetary plu\u00adg\u00adin just to break&nbsp;it.<\/li>\n<li>Google Update\u2019s strange install loca\u00adtion + check\u00ading for updates every 10 min\u00adutes. At least it uses the task sched\u00aduler, but the apps seems to run two copies at once at 7MB RAM a&nbsp;pop.<\/li>\n<li>c:\\documents and settings\\&lt;username&gt;\\my documents\\updater . What is this dir? Why is it always recre\u00adat\u00aded&nbsp;empty?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Begin\u00adning to sound like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=14njUwJUg1I\">old guys from the Mup\u00adpets<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does Adobe Read\u00ader 9 come with AIR? Mmm, pro\u00adlif\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. Unin\u00adstalled imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly. Why do so many installers assume I\u2019m will\u00ading to grant them net access? What exact\u00adly are you doing? BTW, I love VLC\u2019s approach to this: a mes\u00adsage from the devs say\u00ading they hate apps con\u00adnect\u00ading to the net auto\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly&nbsp;too. Why do apps ignore&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}