{"id":424,"date":"2009-06-24T06:17:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2009-06-24T06:17:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T14:17:21","slug":"selling-my-laptop-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/selling-my-laptop-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling my laptop, continued&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for <a href=\"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=422\">selling the laptop<\/a>, I wiped the disk and reinstalled Vista. And, you know what? Vista is halfway pretty. Maybe it only feels that way because I was getting rid of Ubuntu Linux. But, honestly, doesn&#8217;t this look better than Windows XP?<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/3656381287\/\" title=\"Microsoft Vista by Mess of Pottage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3606\/3656381287_ae125f9e81_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Microsoft Vista\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Anyway, there are currently about 8000 laptops for sale on eBay, and mine doesn&#8217;t show up in the first couple of hundred listings. If you search for a used &#8220;Inspiron 1525,&#8221; though, you will see it. But search quickly: the auction expires in 1d 03h.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s barely enough time for me to be depressed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/fraud_on_ebay.html\">this article from Bruce Schneier<\/a> about how hard it is to sell a laptop on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I haven&#8217;t been scammed. On the other hand, I haven&#8217;t gotten any bids yet, either. People are running up the prices of similarly- and less well-equipped machines, while the clock runs out on mine. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s up with that. Also, there are 17 people watching. (Really, 16: I&#8217;m watching it myself.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for selling the laptop, I wiped the disk and reinstalled Vista. And, you know what? Vista is halfway pretty. Maybe it only feels that way because I was getting rid of Ubuntu Linux. But, honestly, doesn&#8217;t this look better than Windows XP? Anyway, there are currently about 8000 laptops for sale on eBay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[23,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-6Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}