March 2008 - Jesper's Blog

Troubleshooting Errors While Updating Software

A number of people are reporting errors when running software update tools. The tools include Windows Update, Windows Defender Updates, Installshield, Adobe Updater, and probably others as well. The errors include 80070005 (from Windows tools) and c0000005...

Published Mon, Mar 31 2008 9:30 PM by Jesper's Blog

Filed under: Windows Security, Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Permission Errors While Updating Software

Change log: Updated on April 8, 2008, with information on Norton Internet Security and Windows Installer 3.1. A number of people are reporting errors when running software update tools. The tools include Windows Update, Windows Defender Updates, Installshield...

Published Mon, Mar 31 2008 9:30 PM by Jesper's Blog

Filed under: Windows Security, Troubleshooting

Public Education in Washington State

This is a bit off topic for me, but it is an important thing to get out there nevertheless. I love living in Washington State. It may be snowing as I write this, but in general, I really like this state, the lifestyle, the people, and our wonderful natural...

Published Fri, Mar 28 2008 2:20 PM by Jesper's Blog

Help us Nellie! Please, help us!

Apple clearly has a de-facto monopoly in the portable music player market, with upward of 70% of that market. It is busily working on monopolies in the music software and downloads markets and is behaving monopolistically in the PC market as well. Some...

Published Fri, Mar 21 2008 5:28 PM by Jesper's Blog

Filed under: Thinking differently

Help us Neelie! Please, help us!

Apple clearly has a de-facto monopoly in the portable music player market, with upward of 70% of that market. It is busily working on monopolies in the music software and downloads markets and is behaving monopolistically in the PC market as well. Some...

Published Fri, Mar 21 2008 5:28 PM by Jesper's Blog

Filed under: Thinking differently

Regulatory Silliness

Susan just pointed me to a " Self-assessment questionnaire " for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI/DSS). While, on the whole, the intent of that standard is good, there are some areas of it that, as usual, stray into the...

Published Mon, Mar 10 2008 12:30 PM by Jesper's Blog

Filed under: Security Pontification

1722 Error from InstallShield

Last week I found a post in the Vista newsgroups from a lady who was having problems installing Kaspersky Anti-Virus. She was getting an error 1722 upon installation on one computer out of three and the installation failed. She had called both Kaspersky...

Published Mon, Mar 10 2008 11:47 AM by Jesper's Blog

Filed under: Running Windows

March 2008 - Jesper's Blog

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