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I was just about to install Windows 7 RTM on the MacBook Pro Core Duo. Unfortunately Boot Camp Assistant is unable to relocate files on the hard drive to create a 32 GB partition.
Well, I’m going to wait for this weekend to see if Snow Leopard would actually be released. It’s an excuse for backing-up and initializing the hard drive.
Until then I’d put this project on hold and installing Windows 7 on an older Gateway PC instead.
I’m downgrading a computer to Windows XP SP2 because a certain Microsoft program doesn’t work properly after Service Pack 3 was installed.
Well, it is not the program itself. For some reasons certain VB-scripts no longer runs properly after Internet Explorer 7 is installed. Internet Explorer 7 is somehow included in Service Pack 3.
For now this computer will stay at Service Pack 2.
I was cleaning up a virus-infested Windows XP and found out how one of the viruses attempted infecting my USB drive.
Just watch out for some Registry entry for “resycled/boot.com”
Don’t forget to clean the computer up in safe mode, kill the explorer.exe and lunch Registry Editor.
I’ve got a call a few days ago about networking problems in Windows Vista. For some reasons, most network traffics are available with the exceptions of the important TCP ports. No port 80, no port 110, no port 587, etc. I could ping the computer but the computer can’t connect to any sites or any mail servers.
I’ll be working on the computer tomorrow, and I’ll try documenting this problem in details.
What in the world Leo Laporte is thinking? He had been warned before, way before the first “Windows Weekly” podcast. Yes, “PODCAST” not the lame “netcast” term Laporte is trying to push.
Originally Laporte asked his audience if Paul Thurrott would be good for his Microsoft-centric podcast. Despite of the opinions against Thurrott, Laporte proceeded with the Original Microsoft Defender an produce the auditory abomination known as “Windows Weekly”.
Paul Thurrott, also known as the unofficial Microsoft P.R. Machine and the Original Microsoft Defender, has been making a living writing anything about Microsoft. He’s been showing his true color of disliking anything that is nt from Microsoft. Who in their right minds think that Microsoft Zune is a great product. (Pardon me for using the following term) Only Microsoft Sheep do, and that includes one of the biggest of them all, namely Paul Thurrott. Thurrott praises XBox 360 and look down upon Nintendo Wii. Despite of Wii’s triumph over XBox 360, Thurrott calls Nintendo Wii as a “joke” and a novelty console.
As for the Wii, I’m going to have to disagree with the consensus and call it as I see it: Unless you have very young kids with no video game experience at all, skip out on this console. The Wii is a joke, a novelty console that doesn’t offer much staying power.
It must have pained Thurrott greatly to call Sony Playstation 3 an XBox 360 equal. Let’s face it, XBox 360 sees the highest failure rate in the recent video game console history. I for one have seen containers full of defective XBox 360 ready to be shipped to China for “repairs”. They all are suffering from the same problems that is called the red ring of death.
In the recent auditory abortion called “Windows Weekly”, Thurrott tried to explain the whole Microsoft $300 Million campaign. Despite of the poor perceptions from the technology crowd, Thurrott steps in as the Microsoft P.R. and defend the campaign. Thurrott implies that he has the inside knowledge of the campaign and keep interrupting Leo Laporte on the subject. Thurrott also thinks that “Mojave Experiment” is such a success of sticking it to Apple and their “Get A Mac” ad campaign.
It is clear that Thurrott is being Passive-Aggressive and Defensive about the subject.
If only Thurrott would shed the “I’m an unbiased tech-enthusiast” and admit that he is a Microsoft Fanboy, then there would be no problems at all. After all, I also listen to Laporte’s “Macbreak Weekly” podcast. At least the people in “Macbreak Weekly” admit that they are huge Apple fans.
If you could be objective and have the patience to listen to the droning voice of Thurrott, you can find all the self-contradicting statements Thurrott made in “Windows Weekly podcast. One of the recent one he’s made is about bloat-ware. In “Windows Weekly” 74, Thurrott takes a stab at iTunes 8 and essentially call it as a bloated software. In “Windows Weekly” 66, Thurrott defends Microsoft Windows, and says that it is OK for being bloated because the hardware now can support the software. Thurrott would do the technology world a favor by keeping his opinion (if he has any, it’s all Microsoft P.R. materials anyway) to himself.
“Windows Weekly” is in need of a good panel to discuss the world of Microsoft. It is tiring to listen to Thurrott alone spewing Microsoft propaganda, ad garbage about everything non-Microsoft. It is possible that Leo Laporte couldn’t find anyone who would work with Thurrott on the podcast. At one time Laporte let people call in and contribute to the podcast. Definitely there were a few people callrd on Thurrott’s lies.
Paul Thurrott calls himself as a non-partisan tech-enthusiast just like Fox News call themselves as “Fair and Balanced”.
Note to self:
Just in case Windows failed to update:
When accessing the Update site, you receive the 0x800A01AE error.
http://www.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/showarticle.aspx?articleid=38&ln=en&IsMu=False
Create a text-only batch file/command line file, and call it something like “wu-reg.cmd” with the following:
regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wups2.dll
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
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?
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