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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-18
- Saturday = errands, plus upgrading MacBook to 500GB hdd #
- well that was easier than I’d expected – macbook now has 500GB hard drive, that plus 4GB ram and it’s running nicely #
- going through old hard drives – working? dead? keep? chuck? starting piles for each #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-17
- Friday – time to wrap up as many outstanding loose ends as possible. #
- Apple applications (1st draft) – done. Time to catch up on other paperwork. #
- fighting the urge to apply stereotypes to a particular (difficult) customer #
- invoices written, now to deal with quotes and “issues” resolving #
- why does the guy who ‘owns’ the it outsource for a company want me to tell them what they should do at one of their sites? #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-17
- done Apple reseller app, now Apple repairer app – do you think they want to know I’ve upgraded RAM/HDD in my MacBook? #
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The Build Disc – Part 5b (Extras – Office 2003)
Posted by David in Build Disc, Unattended Installs on April 8th, 2009
A fully standardised install only takes us so far. At some point you have to cater to the stuff that doesn’t fit in with the standardised stuff. This article is about the extra bits that help Office 2003.
What do I install? Pretty much just the file format converters to allow Office 2003 to read files created with Office 2007.
(As an aside, the Office viewers normally only open Office 2003 files but if you install them and then install the converter, they will also read Office 2007 files.)
I’ve worked out an unattended install but for only one install it’s not really all that relevant.
For what it’s worth, this is the unattended install command:
Office2003-FileFormatConverters.exe /quiet /passive /norestart
This article is part of a series dealing with my standard system build. It starts with this article and the post you’re reading now is directly related to this one.
The Build Disc – Part 5a (Extras)
Posted by David in Build Disc on April 7th, 2009
A standard install is all very well but you reach a point, at least at the home user/small business level, where standardization falls down. Not every computer is going to have the same version of MS Office installed (or even have Office), some computers will not already have Acrobat Reader (or have an older version pre-installed).
Having already dealt with service packs, Windows/Microsoft Updates and standard utilities, now it’s time to come up with a good way of handling these extra items. I’ve set this up with our typical customers in mind and it handles the stuff we usually need. Obviously once you get to this level there is almost infinite scope for how you might handle things.