Life and Technology
Error 0×80131702 when installing .Net framework 2.0 Redist
http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2006/01/20/515597.aspx
I encountered this error while installing Microsoft Windows Home Server Client Software on a newly installed Windows XP with SP3.
My friend managed to download Windows XP Service Pack 3 before it was pulled off Microsoft servers earlier today.
Anyway, we clean installed Windows XP with SP2, then applied SP3.
One weird thing that we noticed was Windows Security Center. It just doesn’t look right.
How in the virtual-world do you rename a Windows Home Server?
So far, I don’t see any options to do so. Even Microsoft Support site doesn’t have any answers remotely related to it.
The adventure with Windows Home Server continues.
First, I am resurrecting 37primeBlog from 37prime.WordPress back-up because I had so much posted here previously. Since I have started a new WordPress blog (37prime.news), I’m using 37primeBlog for the “draft” of upcoming posts.
It takes a lot to write down an intelligible post which I am trying to do. This time I am using Windows Home Server HP MediaSmart Server EX475, and slowly piecing things together. I have found good things and bad things about Windows Home Server. Yet I still have to put all my notes together about this Windows Home Server.
This is the first one. By default Windows Home Server put all the drives install in Raid Zero. That worries me. Raid Zero is not a good backup solution. Come on Microsoft, at least give the options to set-up the Raid. Give me Raid 1 or Raid 5.
What if one hard-drive failed? What would happened to the data?
What about it, Microsoft?
As usual, on the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft releases patches for their products.
Updates are available for variety of Microsoft Office suites, Windows OS, and some cheese.
If you feel like reading the tech-note, go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-mar.mspx
Microsoft releases the first real update to Office 2008 for Mac. The update weighs in at 114MB (English version).
This update fixes critical issues in Office 2008, including issues that might cause Office 2008 applications to stop responding or quit unexpectedly.
Released: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
.dmg file size: 114mb
For more info, go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx
About the update:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948057
I really think that this is funny. I want to know what software can bypass the product activation and interfere with “normal” Windows operation? Bypassing Windows product activation is a wrong wrong thing to do. Microsoft reserves the right to dub their customers as software pirates.
As always, my colleague brought me some challenges on installing Windows XP on a Vista PC. This time is a notebook PC. He already installed most of the drivers with the exception of the video driver. He actually called the tech support and still couldn’t get the video driver installed. Luckily I managed to get it installed. Now the notebook PC is free from Windows Vista.
Compaq Presario F732NR Notebook PC
Windows XP Drivers you need:
You have to manually install the driver for nVidia GeForce Go 6150.
There is one unknown device left in the Device Manager, and I still can’t find out what it really is.
to be updated.
Flock 1.1 Beta is available for download.
Release notes for Flock 1.1 Beta
I have Flock 1.1 Beta installed and it did not automatically import profile from previous version.
UPDATE: Evan Hamilton from Flock wrote:
Just to clarify: this is a beta and will not use your profile from previous versions of Flock. This is in order to protect your data from potential bugs in this beta. The general release of Flock 1.1 WILL use your profile info from previous versions.
Flock 1.1 Beta is available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
As I have previously stated before that the Microsoft bidding for Yahoo! reminds me of an episode of Futurama titled “Future Stock“. I am such a Futurama geek. The (evil) Momcorp was going to buy out Planet Express, Inc. and the stockholders of both companies must approve the take-over.
Are there any relevance between this Futurama episode and Microsoft’s bid to take-over Yahoo!? (That’s a bit tricky, the exclamation point in Yahoo! and the question mark at the end of the sentence which is a question.)
Now, after a poor excuse for mentioning Futurama over and over again, let’s see what went on so far.
Microsoft’s cash on hand was estimated at 21 Billion Dollars, and they were offering Yahoo! 44.6 Billion Dollars in cash and stocks.
Yahoo! shares rose from $19.18 to $28.38 on February 1st after Microsoft announced their take-over bid. Meanwhile, Microsoft shares dropped from $32.60 to $30.45 on the same period.
Yahoo! Board of Directors Says Microsoft’s Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo!
Yahoo! Board did not explicitly reject Microsoft’s proposal.
Now let’s see here. Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo! shares at $31 per share. It was a sweet deal when Yahoo! shares was still at $19.18 per share. On February 1st, Microsoft’s offer is only 8.45% higher than the value of Yahoo! shares. There has been some whispers that Yahoo! is holding out for $40 per share to approve Microsoft’s take-over bid.
Yep, a major Yahoo! shareholder wants to see payday, at $40 per share. Who doesn’t like making profit on the stock market?
Hypothetically, if Yahoo! shareholders wanted this take-over to happen (like this one), there would still be a lot of hurdles for Microsoft to make it happen. Microsoft would have a tougher time to convince their own shareholders to approve this take-over. Yahoo! take-over seemed to be a bad financial move for Microsoft. Can Microsoft actually afford Yahoo! without breaking their bank? What are Microsoft’s shareholders saying regarding this Yahoo! take-over. SmartMoney says that “Microsoft Shareholders to Pay High Price for Yahoo“.
I am not a financial analyst, but I am a huge Futurama fan. Based on what I learned from Futurama’s “Future Stock”, shareholders from both company must approve the take-over. If that held true, then maybe Microsoft shareholder might be the one who would stop Steve Ballmer and his pals from driving Microsoft over the cliff, metaphorically.
Let’s see how this play out.
Disclaimer: I do not own a single stock because I don’t have the cash or the guts to gamble, but I make stupid stock predictions for other people.
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