Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
So we’ve come to a new era of Firefox release schedules. Firefox 5 was released yesterday, and 6 and 7 are slated to change to Beta and Aurora modes (respectively) on July 5th. I heard somewhere that they were moving to a 10 month release cycle. Of course, I packaged Firefox 4 three months ago now, so this release was rather quick.
Anyway, I just packaged it, and am using it right now. For all the world to see, here’s the package!
Holy. Crap.
I gotta say, MS did a number on the sequencer this time around. I just packaged SPSS 19 in less than 20 minutes, albeit unsuccessfully on the client station, but hey!
The best changes so far are:
The actually DO listen to customers, it just takes a while to get the requests in the roadmap.
Due to my day job, I am bound to run across some particular software that is not an ordinary install. In fact, I have run into many of these; head on.
In particular this time, is the Hawkes Algebra software. It comes in many flavors, from Introductory to Advanced. And its profile setup is completely contrary to what it should be doing.
It should be copying required files to the users’ profile folder automatically. If it’s not there, go do it.
[This is the point I’m actually reviewing the OSD file for the app]
However, I need to remember, if I copy the Pre-Launch code from the previous version, I need to make sure I’m using the same package root as the new package. Hurpderp.
So I’ve got to at least try this new app out. The interface is very Word like (with the Office 2010 style of File menu (or what 2007 called the Office Button)). But, on my netbook, it takes up a good quarter of the screen. I can minimize it, though.
There’s no previous entry management a form of entry management, but it’s in the form of opening the previous entries for editing. Which, I guess is the reason for entry management.
It does have a couple bonuses over the Qumana and Adobe Contribute packages, in terms of ease of use, and it’s got the bonus of bringing in the theme style of the blog for the writing area. It helps to visualize what you’re getting in the end.
Picture Test!
Easy enough. Point to, resize, and edit for hyperlinkage. Also bonus for knowing that I want to continue to write around the picture.
Plus it’s yesterdays’ XKCD. Good stuff.
Downside with the picture insert: Margin. Not a whole lot of space between the picture and the accompanying text. You can edit it manually, but there’s no auto-format in this case.
So this weekend is going to be filled with the joys of working from home, to prepare for the oncoming semester. Because of a single, very annoying line of code.
If I’ve done this right, I should have both the x86 and x64 builds of my Windows 7 image done by tomorrow. It’s a minor change, but a big bug.
I’ve also learned how to edit more directly the OEM branding (where it says Windows 7 [Insert Edition Here]). All I really wanted was a spot to add the simple text of what version of the build it was. ASU does it, but I just can’t find where they did it.