{"id":414,"date":"2006-03-25T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2006-03-25T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T18:18:00","slug":"longest-installer-in-the-history-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Longest Installer in the History of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at my <a href=\"http:\/\/darthi.blogspot.com\">friend<\/a>&#8216;s house, <em>trying to<\/em> help him install Maya 7. I figured this would be easy, just open the setup.exe on the disc and install.<br \/>\nWell, I was wrong. Very wrong. There are a few complications here. First of all, my friend has 3 virtual drives, all called basically the same thing as his DVD drive, meaning it took a while to even <em>find<\/em> the setup.exe file. Then, his firewall. ZoneAlarm or something. It seems like <em>every time<\/em> Maya tries to install another file, I get a popup that says &#8216;ZoneAlarm has detected a program doing something you might want to look at&#8217;, which stalls the installer and waits for me to click &#8216;allow&#8217;. If this weren&#8217;t annoying enough, I&#8217;ve waited through at least 5 loading bars, which all say &#8216;Please wait while I install Maya 7.0&#8217;. WHAT IS IT DOING THAT REQUIRES A FREAKING 15 MINUTE LONG INSTALLER?!?!?!?!<\/p>\n<p>Update: Man, this is a sight for sore eyes:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/166\/1228\/1600\/thankgod.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/166\/1228\/320\/thankgod.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: While I&#8217;m on the topic of this dude&#8217;s computer, may I mention that apart from a few awesome programs like 3ds and maya (whose legality are questionable), his computer sucks. It didn&#8217;t come with MSPaint, Calculator, or Sound Recorder. It refuses to install service pack 2 (or any updates, for that matter&#8230;). He&#8217;s looking to upgrade it, but I&#8217;m thinking that he should back up the files he needs to a DVD and scrap it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at my friend&#8216;s house, trying to help him install Maya 7. I figured this would be easy, just open the setup.exe on the disc and install. Well, I was wrong. Very wrong. There are a few complications here. First of all, my friend has 3 virtual drives, all called basically the same thing as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-life-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}