Adventures in Zephux

Small rant today. Sitting at work, not too much going on… I decide “hey, let’s install Visual Studio to my laptop so that maybe I will eventually get some incentive to program again…” Fine and dandy thing to do. Okay! So, I start the installation process from my virtual cds that I keep around and wait… and wait… disk 2…. more waiting… progress bar is at 100% now… more waiting… “Executing action: HxMerge_VSCC_v80″…. wait…. wait… 2 hours later… still waiting. This is the worst step in installing! It has no progress bar and you never know when it’s done. It take 5-10 minutes btw, so if you are at the half hour mark you might want to call it quits. You can’t tell whether it is still working or crashed… mine crashed. Well, that was a waste of time. Now task manager won’t even come up. Damn Vista lol, usually I have no trouble, but I am convinced they are purposefully trying to piss me off today. I gave my laptop a hard reboot and tried again… success! I feel accomplished… I successfully installed something with an autoinstaller. Yay!