{"id":373,"date":"2007-05-21T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T21:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/21\/adobe-sucks\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T21:19:39","slug":"a-great-big-sucking-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/21\/a-great-big-sucking-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great, Big Sucking Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently this month is my month for slacking off in compelling blog content, so continuing in that vein here's a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/images\/adobe-sucks.png\" alt=\"The installer for Adobe Reader 8 stating that installation will take approximately a half hour\">nice little screencap<\/a> I took while getting Adobe Reader 8 \"rammed\" to me (I'm <a href=\"http:\/\/justlanguage.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/02\/nick-nick-a-verb-and-a-noun\/\">nicking<\/a> this phrase from <a href=\"http:\/\/rr.latenightpc.com\/wp\/\">Rob<\/a>).  In fairness, installation took \"only\" about 10 minutes, but that initial figure and progress bar did hang there for several of those minutes, inciting my rage and the pressing of Alt+PrintScreen.  2.4 GHz, 512MB RAM.  Thankfully, since that time I've got a new laptop that can handle these modern, bloated document readers...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently this month is my month for slacking off in compelling blog content, so continuing in that vein here&#8217;s a nice little screencap I took while getting Adobe Reader 8 &#8220;rammed&#8221; to me (I&#8217;m nicking this phrase from Rob). In fairness, installation took &#8220;only&#8221; about 10 minutes, but that initial figure and progress bar did [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}