{"id":453,"date":"2002-11-03T14:28:22","date_gmt":"2002-11-03T18:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2002-11-03T14:28:22","modified_gmt":"2002-11-03T18:28:22","slug":"it-can-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"It can get worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really: just when I am maddened to a frenzy by vile, stupid and aggressively user-hostile bits of pseudo-Linux like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiark.greenend.org.uk\/~sgtatham\/putty\/\" title=\"It's not that bad: just the user interface is ghastly\">PuTTY<\/a>, I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agnitum.com\/products\/outpost\/\" title=\"Outpost home page\">new, smooth firewall<\/a>, endorsed by the Register. What a change. This turned out to be vile, stupid, and aggressively user-friendly. I reinstalled it six times before discovering, buried deep in the marketing material, the following sentence:<span class=\"loony\">&#8220;We do not guarantee that Outpost Firewall will run on Microsoft <span class=\"caps\">ICS <\/span>(Internet Connection Sharing) gateway (computer connecting two networks and transmitting packages from one network to another) running Windows2000 Service Pack 2 or Windows <span class=\"caps\">XP.<\/span>&#8221; <\/span>Like anyone would ever want to do <em>that<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really: just when I am maddened to a frenzy by vile, stupid and aggressively user-hostile bits of pseudo-Linux like PuTTY, I found a new, smooth firewall, endorsed by the Register. What a change. This turned out to be vile, stupid, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=453\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=453\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}