I was surprised to find out that Microsoft is no longer offering its Windows Installer Cleanup Utility. The tool is typically known for being able to remove .msi installs after they've been corrupted and the normal Add/Remove Programs won't work. The odd thing about removing the tool is that I've been using it on an almost daily basis recently. We had some Java deployments that … [Read more...]
Archives for 2010
Adobe Releases Quarterly Update 9.3.3 for Reader/Acrobat
Adobe has accelerated its quarterly update for its Reader and Acrobat applications from the planned July 13th to today, June 29th. The reason behind the early release is a critical vulnerability announced June 4th that has been seen in the wild that could allow the program to be crashed and an attacker to take control of the system. Adobe Flash Player was patched on June 10th … [Read more...]
On Crash Protection and Farmville the Reason Behind Firefox 3.6.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 shipped June 22nd with a feature dubbed Crash Protection as well as a number of security and stability issues. From the Firefox 3.6.4 Release Notes: Firefox 3.6.4 provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. If a … [Read more...]
Microsoft Research’s Sleep Proxy
Saving energy through IT in an enterprise environment almost always comes at the expense of trading off something else. It could be security by not keeping machines on for patching, it could be accessibility by not keeping machines on for remote access, it could be inconvenience by having to wait for your computer to boot up and complete all of its start up tasks, or it could … [Read more...]
Light-Bot 2.0 – A Game Teaching Programming
I enjoyed writing my last post that covered a tech-related Flash game, Manufactoria, and others seemed to enjoy it as well. So, I think this can be a welcome addition to the topics that 404 Tech Support writes about mostly because I've found and been enjoying another Flash game. This game is called Light-Bot 2.0 and requires the player to implement computer programming-like … [Read more...]