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Thursday, September 26, 2002

Macintosh System Tracker

Many (ok, many, many, many) years ago when I ran large Mac-based prepress facilities for a living we had to keep track of all the software on each station. Maybe my fogged, aging memory is playing tricks on me, but I'm sure we did not do this by hand. I seem to remember there being some sort of SystemInfo thing that would read the system configuration and software installations and provide a printable listing.

I can't find anything like this now. It can't be that hard to do and I'm sure someone has a tool for it -- I've just overlooked it.

Anyone who has a lead on something like this please drop me a line. (I know. I have to get the comment thing re-enabled here.)



Revealing Digital Hollywood

One more way to ruin a good morning. I've got to stop reading my news aggregator.

[...] Most revealing quote of the day went to Brad Hunt, CTO of the MPAA, who at one point summed up the challenge facing the entertainment and computing industries this way: "How do you make the PC a trusted entertainment appliance?" That's the mindset, the shared assumption, underlying the forces on this side of the copyright battle. Wading through two days of that negative energy was a trying experience. [...more] [ Source:  JD's Blog]


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