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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

"... circled the one that said all the above"

Well, I'm working. Got a contract with a company that does outsourcing work for Symantec to work on the uninstaller for the corporate version of Norton Antivirus. It should last a couple of weeks and these guys may have more work for me when this job is done. The pay is very good, which I guess comes with the territory of short-term contracting (since there are no benefits at all).
So I'm frantically learning MSI and VBScript and a couple of other things I never really had time for at ISS, because while we were stuck in 1998 the rest of the world has moved on in terms of installer technology. Luckily I'm in sort of a hurry-up-and-wait mode right now, waiting for necessary detail from a guy at Symantec before I can really get down to work, so I have time to fiddle with a somewhat less-obsolete version of InstallShield, and hopefully not make an utter fool of myself as I assure the guy here that I can do the job-- which I really can, I just need to get up to speed on the latest tools.

I'd also like to note that only Microsoft could have come up with the utterly brilliant concept of turning a simple install script into a horrendously complicated database application, and then (of course) making it an industry standard--even if almost nobody knows how to use it correctly. Thanks, Bill!
|| Andrew, 3:45 PM || ||

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