http://editmx.com/blogs/gerardo.php Tracking down bugs en gmarin@editmx.com Copyright 2007 Pivot Pivot - 1.30 RC2: 'Rippersnapper' Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:32:24 -0500 60 http://editmx.com/blogs/pivot/entry.php?id=5&w=gerardos_blog http://editmx.com/blogs/pivot/entry.php?id=5&w=gerardos_blog#comm With time to spare, I accepted and then I was asked to close the document I was reading. I did it. Waited some time, saw a couple more of dialog windows saying it was downloading the acrobat updater. Then it finished and got amazed because:
1. Acrobat reader started and at the same time
2. I was asked to restart windows.

Well, restart.

At restart, have a glimpse of a system console, and a new message from Acrobat: The updater had just been updated, now you need to update Acrobat... and a new instance of Acrobat started.
Of course I was told that I had to close all running Acrobat instances (even those the installer started without asking me). I did. The "updated updater" then started downloading the main course.
So, wait while Adobe eats your bandwidth. Download ends, your disk rumbles and guess what... yes, another empty reader is started and, of course, you have to restart.
That's user friendly. And wait for the version that will be the "all in one" stuff that rumors say it will be, integrating flash into Acrobat.
And thinking about Adobe Acrobat Reader itself... does it have any sense at this time?
Why does that fatware exists? I guess it's basically a piece of software from the early internet by modem days whose purpose was: 1. Send and receive documents with standard fonts when Microsoft Office formats changed every other day and 2. Send it in a compact way (no zip/unzip needed).
However, nowadays Office is widely compatible (even with itself), PDF documents are as fat as any other format, and high bandwidth is a commodity, so compression is no longer a must.
Other than that... does anyone thinks

]]> 5@http://editmx.com/blogs/pivot/ default Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:32:00 -0500 http://editmx.com/blogs/pivot/entry.php?id=3&w=gerardos_blog http://editmx.com/blogs/pivot/entry.php?id=3&w=gerardos_blog#comm Finally I decided to set up a blog. I like Pivot because I run a very simple site, my preferred database is Postgresql and I don't want to have mysql running in addition to it, most blogging software asks for MySQL to work. And due to the extremely low traffic and volume, and good old text files are easier to maintain and backup (I'm a terrible sysadmin!).

So, since I've been working in Software Quality Assurance the last 7 years, most comments will be related to it. I hope to have something interesting to give from time to time and to have some feedback from people in the field.

Also, from time to time you'll see some posts in Spanish (or translations within the same post) since I live in Mexico and some people even on the tech field, doesn't speak English.

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