{"id":5750,"date":"2014-03-24T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T16:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2014-03-24T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T16:24:48","slug":"a-followup-to-that-xp-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/a-followup-to-that-xp-post\/","title":{"rendered":"a followup to that XP post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/yes-i-still-have-an-xp-partition\/\">I posted about still having a Windows XP partition<\/a> (that boots very rarely, but not <em>quite<\/em> never), asking what to do about it. If you&#8217;re still running XP, you need to do this too, because security patches stop coming on April 8th.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Forever<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a hax0r&#8217;s field day; as of last month, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Usage_share_of_operating_systems\">29.53% of desktops were still on Windows XP<\/a>. All of them will be active parts of botnets on April&#8230; 9th, probably. Even those which haven&#8217;t been turned on. I know this because of facts, but it&#8217;s also actually true.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve been making a backup image of my hard drive and I&#8217;m going to try <a href=\"http:\/\/solarbird.dreamwidth.org\/1235641.html#comments\">what dreamatdrew said<\/a>, after I run out to buy Yet More Crap because Reasons, most of which involve how I really, really wish Windows talked to ext3 filesystems, but it doesn&#8217;t, because kill everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Killing everyone is an important part of a supervillain&#8217;s daily workout. That, and petting the kitty. Hi, George.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll be doing today, so wish me luck with all that, or else. Or else what? Well, I haven&#8217;t worked out today yet. That&#8217;s what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I posted about still having a Windows XP partition (that boots very rarely, but not quite never), asking what to do about it. If you&#8217;re still running XP, you need to do this too, because security patches stop coming on April 8th. Forever. It&#8217;s going to be a hax0r&#8217;s field day; as [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}