{"id":213,"date":"2007-11-10T11:14:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T16:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/linfa\/create\/2007\/11\/10\/vista_vs_osx_up\/"},"modified":"2007-11-10T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T16:14:31","slug":"vista_vs_osx_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2007\/11\/10\/vista_vs_osx_up\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista vs OSX upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, planets align in such a way that computers start acting up, regardless of operating system.<br \/>\nI have been fighting with my desktop PC for weeks to troubleshoot random shutdowns and blue screen issues. All that time, I was thinking about my MacBook Pro laptop and how stable it is&#8230; until I upgraded it to Leopard, just around the time I upgraded my desktop to Vista.<br \/>\nOn the Vista front, I first found out that there was no upgrade path from XP Pro to Vista Home edition. I guess once you are running Pro, you are not allowed to downgrade. Fine&#8230; I wiped out XP and replaced it with Vista as a fresh install after getting a new version.<br \/>\nThat allowed me to enjoy the UAC nightmare that I have read so much about and two reactivations (one by phone) because I had the temerity to troubleshoot hardware and replace ethernet, video card and sound cards. I also found out that, for some obscure reason, Vista keeps leaving empty folder behind when I try to move a large amount of files. And here I thought moving files was one of these basic functions of an Operating System.<br \/>\nTo make things more interesting, upgrading to Leopard on the laptop didn&#8217;t go without its own set of issues.<br \/>\nThe upgrade didn&#8217;t keep track of the location of applications (I thought I would keep things organized in the Applications folder by grouping similar applications together).<br \/>\nOnce upgraded, a secutiry patch disabled the sound device.<br \/>\n<strong>Note:<\/strong> It was reactivated weeks later with the next patch. Running the disk maintenance utility to track and restore corrupted permissions seems to have helped as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, planets align in such a way that computers start acting up, regardless of operating system. I have been fighting with my desktop PC for weeks to troubleshoot random shutdowns and blue screen issues. All that time, I was thinking about my MacBook Pro laptop and how stable it is&#8230; until I upgraded it to Leopard,&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2007\/11\/10\/vista_vs_osx_up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[149,169,173],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized","tag-macos","tag-upgrade","tag-vista","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8frwa-3r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}