Had problems installing Sony Media Manager - for ACID 7 and Vegas 8. The help from Sony was pretty paltry - it was a long convoluted process that involved manually removing certain directories - real low-brow software engineering with an end user process that was much more like virus removal than software installation.
It always bombed on the install of SQL Server Express, so I started looking into that. I tried installing it separately and discovered that it wouldn't install correctly if the directory it is placed in was compressed or encrypted. Boing! I had compressed my hard drive.
Hey Sony! Maybe you haven't seen this much, but I can't have been the first to stumble across this problem. Try putting this is your installation problem FAQ!
November 25, 2008
Vundo infected my java file
I had a virtumonde spyware infection - it also showed up as Vundo. I tried all kinds of scanners to get rid of it, but it always came back after rebooting. Lots of people end up reformatting their hard drives and re-installing to get rid of this thing.
Turns out it was residing inside my Java runtime environment. I think it was pretty disappointing that the spyware scanning sites didn't talk about this because there are people that seem to be well aware of it and I have to believe the spyware scanners know this is a possibility too.
The solution was to remove all instances of Java from my system and install a fresh release and scan with a couple products. Spybot S&D and SuperAntiSpyware. In general, SAS seems to do a better job.
So far so good.
Turns out it was residing inside my Java runtime environment. I think it was pretty disappointing that the spyware scanning sites didn't talk about this because there are people that seem to be well aware of it and I have to believe the spyware scanners know this is a possibility too.
The solution was to remove all instances of Java from my system and install a fresh release and scan with a couple products. Spybot S&D and SuperAntiSpyware. In general, SAS seems to do a better job.
So far so good.
May 12, 2008
Re-starting this blog
I stopped writing this blog when I started up Storage@work at EqualLogic. That one is still going, but I've been spending more energy lately getting InsideIT off the ground at Dell.
Whatever, I feel like reviving this blog to write about stuff that involves technology or business, but that might not necessarily fit into either of my corporate blogs.
At any rate, I'm hosting the blog now on Google's blogger site. My old hosting site is going to be turned off in a few days.
Whatever, I feel like reviving this blog to write about stuff that involves technology or business, but that might not necessarily fit into either of my corporate blogs.
At any rate, I'm hosting the blog now on Google's blogger site. My old hosting site is going to be turned off in a few days.
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