{"id":240,"date":"2004-05-14T12:42:54","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2004-05-14T12:42:54","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T16:42:54","slug":"how-to-make-windows-suck-10000-fewer-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/how-to-make-windows-suck-10000-fewer-times\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make Windows suck 10000 fewer times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the same spirit of Marvin&#8217;s comment about Arthur Dent&#8217;s brain (<q>It amazes me how you manage to live in anything that small.<\/q>), it amazes me that anyone can actually get work done on a Windows box <em>without having virtual workspaces<\/em>&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>But I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yipton.demon.co.uk\/\">DESKWIN<\/a>, which does all I need; four virtual desktops, with hotkeys between them. Not much else. Perfect. Well, okay, Windows has still got about seven orders of magnitude of improvement to go before it&#8217;s even mildly usable, but  it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the same spirit of Marvin&#8217;s comment about Arthur Dent&#8217;s brain (It amazes me how you manage to live in anything that small.), it amazes me that anyone can actually get work done on a Windows box without having virtual workspaces&nbsp;&hellip; But I found DESKWIN, which does all I need; four virtual desktops, with hotkeys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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":[7,2],"tags":[1757,268],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-deskwin","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-3S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}