After fixing many bugs in the code and running countless builds of the d-i image, migration-assistant 0.1 is here. I’d like to thank Colin Watson and the Ubuntu community for their help and input with this release.
What works?
Windows XP
User accounts are created as users in Ubuntu as requested.
The “My Documents” folder is imported to […]
I was so close to release (I thought, as always). I had but a few bugs, one in particular that I wanted to address: the permissions on everything I created were r-x r-x r-x. I made some changes to the code to hopefully fix this and the other issues, and did my usual three hour […]
I’ve promised two things that I have not made good on.
I said I’d post much more often, which I’ve been neglecting to do.
I said I’d have the first release ready Real Soon Now.
The second part has been holding the first part back as I was hoping to save the next blog post for the release […]
Things are progressing quite nicely at the moment.
cdecl is a wonderful little program.
MSN is quite tricky. I spent a good hour trying to figure out where it stores its usernames. I cannot find my account (Passport) in the registry or the filesystem.
I just commmited code for the switch from Mini-XML to libxml2. While parsing html […]
For all the lip service Mozilla gives about being standards compliant, they sure don’t apply the same set of rules to their bookmarks format. Now, I’m sure that it dates back to the original Netscape code and they’ve found a good reason to keep it the same way all these years, but for someone who’s […]
My plans of constantly updating this blog with the status of Migration Assistant have failed to date and interested parties have been left in the dark. This is an attempt at fixing that.
m-a is progressing nicely. Colin Watson has been an immense help. There were a few bumps in the road, specifically working […]