Dan Cunningham

Second blog post of the evening, I’ve been a busy lad

Again, this is mainly a bugfix release – primary intended to resolve an issue on Windows 7 with USMT4. Here’s the changelog:

Download in the Migration Assistant section. Enjoy!

Incidentally, I’m not back developing these apps fulltime, and I really do hope that someone picks up development of these from GitHub.

Hi all,

So I know I said I didn’t intend on releasing any more builds of EncodeHD, however, a fairly big issue has been reported to me frequently in relation to audio. Since around May last year, the FFmpeg team replaced libfaac with their own experimental AAC encoder. It’s certainly faster than libfaac, but there’s a noticeable difference in sound quality and frequent channel mapping glitches. So I’ve decided to revert back to a build still containing libfaac. This is at the expense however of the latest x264 changes, but hopefully this shouldn’t cause any noticeable degradation of picture quality.

While I was at it, I decided to add Nexus One support, and integrate changes made by KraftDinner in a GitHub branch. You can see his changes here.

Here’s the full changelog:

And the download is in the EncodeHD section. Enjoy

As promised, here’s the release version of the Software Compliance Tool, including fairly comprehensive documentation on how to use it. This has been tested extensively and is currently in-use on a 2,000+ workstation site, saving a huge amount of time in policing and removing unwanted applications.

This is being released as Donationware, as are all my other tools. I don’t get paid to write these apps, and there’s no obligation on you to donate. On this app in particular though, I think people should keep in mind that there’s a number of blacklisting (and whitelisting) tools out there that solely prevent new installations and don’t even attempt to remove unwanted applications, charging anywhere between $5 – $20 per workstation.  SCT compliments them wonderfully since it assists you in remediating back to your approved application list. If your company implements SCT, any sort of donation would be much appreciated

You can download the Software Compliance Tool in the SysAdmin Tools section.

If you hit any issues or need help in configuring, just get in touch on the Contact page.

Dan

Oh hi! Welcome to my all new site, with extra shiny bits  I’m really pleased with the new layout, I hope you like it too.

So over the next few days I’ll get the remaining pieces of the Software Compliance Tool together and post it here. You might notice I’ve already made a start on it, and it’s already got it’s own section under Admin Tools.

Things have been pretty hectic for me work-wise for the past few months, and generally by the end of the working day I’m exhausted – but things should start calming down soon enough and I’m hopefully going to blog a bit more frequently on things I’m working on – both work projects and some of my own personal development projects.

Stay tuned!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted – I’m up to my eyes in work I’m afraid. But since I’ve had quite a number of requests to release the Software Compliance Tool, I figured I should actually go ahead and do so. It’s working very well in my work environment at present, so I’m deeming it as pretty stable. I should probably do up some documentation to go with it first though, so I’ll get that together over the next few days and release something then

Dan

Update 15/12/09: Emm, actually this might have to wait until after Christmas. Due to some limitations with my current site design, I need to do a bit of an overhaul in order to post up new sections. This might take me a bit of time though – although feel free to get in touch if you want a copy of SCT now.