{"id":1374,"date":"2012-10-29T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2012-10-29T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:19:22","slug":"win-8-is-here-win-8-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/win-8-is-here-win-8-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Win 8 Is Here, Win 8 Is Here!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In\u00a0lieu of an actual weekend, I got to be oncall. \u00a0Bah. \u00a0To back up all the way to Thursday though, I did get to go out that night. \u00a0Donette came home from Chicago a day early and we went out on an official “date night” before my lock-down started. \u00a0We started our evening with a nice steak dinner at the Oak Room<\/a> down on the Plaza. \u00a0Never been there before, but it was quite a meal. \u00a0Can’t beat a well-cooked steak. \u00a0After dinner we headed up Broadway a short distance to see Grace Potter<\/a> at the Uptown Theater<\/a>. \u00a0We’ve seen her a few times before at the Mile High Music Festival in Denver, but haven’t ever caught one of her local shows. \u00a0It was a fantastic concert, and the group sounded great in the small venue. \u00a0(Quite a bit smaller than the enormous outdoor stage in Denver.) \u00a0A bit loud and a bit late for the old folks, but we made it all the way through. \u00a0(Well, close anyway; \u00a0My ever-present fear of being stuck over 5 minutes in traffic caused us to miss the encore.)<\/p>\n

The rest of the weekend was spent (when not on conference calls) installing and testing my new copy of Windows 8. \u00a0Oh, the excitement. \u00a0I don’t even particularly like Windows, but I do like messing around with new things so I raced right out Friday and grabbed a copy from Microcenter<\/a>. \u00a0I decided to use my laptop as a test platform, as we really don’t use it much anyway and definitely don’t have anything we mind losing on it. \u00a0The install went nearly perfect and very quickly. It didn’t auto-detect the video chip, but got everything else. \u00a0Given the age of the laptop, I was pretty impressed with that. \u00a0The new interface everybody is squawking about is certainly… \u00a0“new.” \u00a0I haven’t decided if I like it or not yet, I’m still trying to get used to it. \u00a0I did install an alternative start menu (pokki<\/a>) to help me out while I get familiarized with the new setup. \u00a0Aside from the rather baffling aesthetic changes, I’m liking the actual functionality. \u00a0My creaky old laptop is running very smooth, much better than it ever did on Vista, even when new. \u00a0My favorite feature is that when an application is minimized it goes into a sleep mode, using very little resources; \u00a0Much different than on Windows 7. \u00a0You can check this out in the much-improved Task Manager, it’s pretty slick. \u00a0I’ll be testing it out a few more weeks, but I imagine I’ll be putting it on my other machines soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In\u00a0lieu of an actual weekend, I got to be oncall. \u00a0Bah. \u00a0To back up all the way to Thursday though, I did get to go out that night. \u00a0Donette came home from Chicago a day early and we went out on an official “date night” before my lock-down started. \u00a0We started our evening with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}