Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category

It doesn’t seem like so long ago …

Remember when this was acceptable?  Thank you microsoft.com for not updating your .NET framework downloads and taking me back to the good old days when Internet connnectivity wasn’t an assumed reality.



My First Vista Roadblock: And it’s M$ Software!

So the IT dept has been told we need to start working on Vista upgrades.  XP is going end of life next year (or so MS is threatening anyway), so we’ve got to start getting people migrated.  My first step is to start using Vista myself, so I’ve taken the plunge today. The install was [...]



Why oh why won’t my CF 6.1 install?

Today, I’m rebuilding CF 6.1 machines on Win2k3 VM’s … but I can’t seem to get the installer to start.  Why not?  DEP!  Microsoft’s Data Execution Prevention prevents the program from extracting files.  There’s a real good explanation of it here.  http://www.clickculture.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/2/15/Cant-Install-ColdFusion-61




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