Category Archives: Packages

Make Acrobat Pro 9 for Mac shut the hell up!

Posted on February 5, 2010 by brunerd

So, if you deploy Acrobat Pro to a corporate environment you already know what an aggravating experience it is to try and deploy updates to Adobe products. Silent install? Sure. Silent Update? No. Standard Mac .pkg? No. So you figure … Continue reading →

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Create a standard .pkg for Acrobat Reader

Posted on June 10, 2009 by brunerd

It’s time to patch Acrobat Reader again! And leave it to Adobe to use a patcher app (or Installer Vise, or a downloader, or a some crazy Javascript/XML/AIR based installer) to make things hard for mass deployment to be achieved … Continue reading →

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Tearing Apart OSX/RSPlug-F

Posted on March 30, 2009 by brunerd

OK… I might be a bit late to the party (and Conficker is grabbing all the headlines) but there were some interesting things I found looking at the  headline grabbing trojan OSX/RSPlug-F. Thanks to the effervescent Graham Cluley for his … Continue reading →

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What’s in the Time Machine Update?

Posted on March 20, 2008 by admin

Here’s the meat of what gets updated: backup daemon helper & file vault image tool, loginwindow.app, Broadcom and Aetheros wireless kexts. Lotsa System.kexts: BSD, IOKit, Libkern, MAC Framework, Mach. The AFP filesystem plugin, metadata framework, the backupd launch daemon plists, … 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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What’s in Hard Drive Update 1.0?

Posted on November 8, 2007 by brunerd

So there’s a Hard Drive Update 1.0 update out from Apple! Put on your mining hats and let’s go spelunking… first stop the package .dist file has some strings of interest: if( model.match(/ST3500641AS/) ) if( revision.match(/3.BTD/) ) if( model.match(/ST3750640AS/) ) … Continue reading →

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What’s in the Login & Keychain Update 1.0

Posted on November 7, 2007 by brunerd

Login & Keychain Update 1.0 The Login & Keychain Update 1.0 for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is recommended for all Leopard installations. It addresses issues you may encounter when: *Logging in with an account originally created in Mac OS … Continue reading →

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What’s in the ATI Radeon X1900 XT Firmware Update?

Posted on October 16, 2007 by brunerd

OK so there’s an update for the Radeon X1900 and we really don’t know what’s been improved… If you wanna know where the ROM is it’s here ATI Radeon X1900 XT Graphics Card Update.app/Contents/Resources/ ATIFacelessFlash.app/Contents/Resources/R580Alopias_1.202_EBC.ROM And what’s in it? Pure … Continue reading →

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