Martin McCormick wrote: > I have run across a couple of other ports that required the > acceptance of a software agreement and the process was > relatively painless, but this one makes up for all that and then > some. > > For hours today, I have been wading through the Oracle > web site trying to connect the URL > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html > > with the agreement I must accept and the ultimate purpose of > this so-far futile quest, the download of the zip file > has yet to happen because of the utter triumph of form over > function which is the state of the art of what passes for web > design these days. > > I am limited to lynx or safari. Nothing else is an > option right now. On the Mac, safari is the only browser that > truly works with the screen reader known as VoiceOver. The lynx > browser while it works perfectly with text-based standard input > and output falls flat when confronted with scripting languages > like javascript. > > Oddly enough, both lynx and safari work about the same > way on this site. One uses the url that make tells you to use > and then things just kind of go to pot in a confused jungle of > marketing verbiage and links that are mostly inappropriate to the > task at hand. > > Once, I actually saw the agreement, screen after screen > of legalese and then discovered there was no button to click and > no way out except to back up to the previous screen. > > I certainly hope that if I ever get this installed, it is worth > wasting literally half a work day due to the IT equivalent of a > dialog with an utter idiot. In this case, the idiot is the web > site, not a specific person. > > I figured at this same time a couple of days ago, we'd > have it installed and be testing to see if it meets our needs. > > The interesting thing about all this is that there has > been a thread on this list about open source software. One > comment I can make is that there is simply not these kinds of > hassles. Commercial sites are too busy looking goo-oo-ood! to be > useful much of the time. >
This is one of the worst I have seen to date. Click here: http://members.verizon.net/nightrecon/instantclient-sqlplus- linux32-10.2.0.3-20061115.zip Copy to /usr/ports/distfiles/oracle/ directory. Good luck to you. -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
