
{"id":1232,"date":"2013-04-19T14:42:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2013-04-19T14:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:42:28","slug":"downloading-oracle-driver-for-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"Downloading Oracle Driver for .NET&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>feels like I am trying to download a semi-legal DVD-copying software.<\/p>\n<p>It starts simple enough: just go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/database\/windows\/downloads\/index-101290.html\">this page<\/a>. Shows a list of things to download, it does not get easier than that. But when you click on the first link, it<br \/>\n&#8211; shows you another list<br \/>\n&#8211; then says you must accept the license agreement<br \/>\n&#8211; then says you must create an account<br \/>\n&#8211; this gives you a 3rd degree questionnaire with e-mail, company, your title, etc.<br \/>\n&#8211; then sends you an e-mail with a link you must click to verify your account<br \/>\n&#8211; the verification link (naturally) brings you to Oracle&#8217;s login page<br \/>\n&#8211; login page brings you to start page<br \/>\n&#8211; go back to downloads<br \/>\n&#8211; click link<br \/>\n&#8211; see another list, accept license agreement<br \/>\n&#8211; click on link, get something else (what gives?)<br \/>\n&#8211; click &#8220;back&#8221;, accept license agreement, click link<\/p>\n<p>F-f-f-f-ew&#8230; You finally got it, dude!<br \/>\nIvan, a proud janitor from Screaming Toys, inc.,  42 Avenida de Las Juegas, Thimphu, Bhutan<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Oracle actually knows the telephone code for Bhutan and won&#8217;t let you enter anything else for the phone number. How thoughtful of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>feels like I am trying to download a semi-legal DVD-copying software. It starts simple enough: just go to this page. Shows a list of things to download, it does not <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=1232\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-ikriv","post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hack","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}