http://www.evalicious.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:56:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To the best of my understanding there is a little over a week before FeatureFreeze, so now would be as good a time as ever to put together an update on the status of migration-assistant. Continuing from my last post, it took a lot longer than I expected to ... http://www.evalicious.com/blog/2006/08/27/migration-assistant-post-soc/ I spent the past three days preparing and then taking two credit-by-exam tests at my university.  Having returned, I can finally get back to a language free from implied subjects and edited pictures. Work towards 0.2 is progressing.  I intend on finishing the user page for Ubiquity today.  We'll see how ... http://www.evalicious.com/blog/2006/08/11/back/ Customers will not be able to directly upgrade Windows 2000 to Windows Vista. Rather, they will have to back up everything and format. To quote BetaNews: While Windows 2000 Professional customers may purchase a cheaper "upgrade" copy of Microsoft next-generation operating system, Windows Vista must be "clean installed," which ... http://www.evalicious.com/blog/2006/08/02/a-smart-move-by-microsoft/ 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 ... http://www.evalicious.com/blog/2006/07/31/zero-point-one/ 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 ... http://www.evalicious.com/blog/2006/07/27/always-always-always-use-a-rcs/ 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 ... http://www.evalicious.com/blog/2006/07/25/long-time-no-post/ 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 ... http://www.evalicious.com/blog/2006/07/13/a-very-short-update/ 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 ... http://www.evalicious.com/blog/2006/07/11/hooray-for-standards/ 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 ... http://www.evalicious.com/blog/2006/07/07/its-been-a-while/ We had to cut our vacation to Cape Cod short yesterday as Erica's dog had a stroke, a feat I thought only common in humans.  She obviously wasn't going to enjoy herself while her dog died, especially figuring that it could die at any moment and she wouldn't be there, ... http://www.evalicious.com/blog/2006/05/29/summer-vacation-1-in-a-nutshell/