Category Archives: Microsoft

Office 2008 out of context

Posted on May 4, 2009 by brunerd

So… who’s running Office 2008 and hasn’t seen CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context popping up in their system.log? I’ve seen it plenty: on Tiger, Leopard, ppc, and i386 systems (18MB worth on one heavy Powerpoint users’!) What’s puzzling is why MS hasn’t fixed … Continue reading →

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Office 2008 fonts

Posted on March 12, 2008 by brunerd

A postscript to fonts (hehe), I wanted to mention how Office 2008 will replace your Apple supplied fonts with Microsoft fonts, placing them in /Library/Fonts Disabled. Well I like my Apple fonts just fine thank you, so for posterity here’s … Continue reading →

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Office 2008 12.01 Update almost does it

Posted on March 12, 2008 by brunerd

So the Office 2008 12.01 updater came out, it’s got a whole lot of packages for each app and component with postflight scripts written in Python to clean up all the permissions: Mar 12 15:33:00 brunerd runner[8556]: postflight[8773]: setting ownership/permissions … Continue reading →

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Office 2008 for the ‘executive’

Posted on January 21, 2008 by brunerd

Last night, while groggily honing in on the Office 2008 installer package UID problems, I missed another glaringly obvious defect: All the files are set executable, yes those files owned by 502 are also set executable. Take a look again … Continue reading →

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Office 2008, 502, and you

Posted on January 21, 2008 by brunerd

So… I got a free copy of Office 2008 Digital Media Edition for free at MacWorld 2008! W00t! All because IDG double booked a room and the session I wanted got bumped until later. I instead went to see what’s … Continue reading →

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