http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
"With the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can remove a program's Windows Installer configuration information. You may want to remove the Windows Installer configuration information for your program if you experience installation (Setup) problems. For example, you may have to remove a program's Windows Installer configuration information if you have installation problems when you try to add (or remove) a component of your program that was not included when you first installed your program."
It works great. Just be careful since it is super easy to wipe out apps you may need.
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I buy quite a few things from Overstock.com.
Generally I am pretty satisfied but this one time I submitted a negative review for a pretty expensive thing I ordered from them.
Guess what... It never appeared. It makes me to doubt the value of reviews on that site.
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I needed a PHP/MySql search engine for a relatively small site.
After some searching and even looking at some cheap commercial solutions I found GNU licensed product called Sphider (http://www.cs.ioc.ee/~ando/sphider/index.php)
These guys did a great job. It has very convenient keywords hints lookup feature...
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I noticed this very annoying problem after I upgraded IE to version 7.
New Explorer wasn't crashing anymore but rendering images and fonts was rather strange.
There is "Clear-Type" option that has to be disabled from the advanced options to fix fonts appearance.
Here is what I found at http://wiki.vanguardsw.com:
Problems with Microsoft IE and High-resolution Screens
Beginning with Internet Explorer version 6, Microsoft IE scales web pages when you have your computer screen resolution set higher than normal (above 96 DPI). For example, if you view a Web page that contains an image that is 100 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall, and your Screen DPI is set to 120, the browser will render the image 125 pixels wide by 125 pixels tall. This stretching tends to degrade the image quality. This degradation is especially noticeable when the images contain high-contrast content of the type common on this site. Details about IE's behavior can be found in this Microsoft Brief..
Your screen is set to: 120 DPI
and display scaling is: ON
If the lines above indicates that your screen DPI is greater than 96 and scaling is ON, you will be experiencing the image degradation outlined above. You can turn off Internet Explorer's display scaling and later restore your original settings by clicking the appropriate link below. After clicking a link below, you must close and reopen IE before the change will take effect.
Turn Display Scaling OFF
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REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"UseHR"=dword:00000000
Turn Display Scaling ON
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REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"UseHR"=dword:00000001
Note: The screen scaling problem is unique to Microsoft Internet Explorer. Other Web browsers, such as Firefox, do not apply screen scaling.
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"...Graphomania is not a mania to write letters, personal diaries, or family chronicles (to write for oneself or one's close relations) but a mania to write books (to have a public of unknown readers). ... Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society devlops to the point of creating three basic conditions:
1. an elevated level of general well-being, which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities;
2. a high degree of social atomization and, as a consequence, a general isoalation of individuals;
3. the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life. (From this point of view, it seems to me symptomatic that in France, where practically nothing happens, the percentage of writers is twenty-one times higher than in Israel.
.. The mainspring that drives her to write is just that absence of vital content, that void. But by a backlash, the effort affects the cause. General isolation breeds graphomania, and generalized graphomania in turn intensifies and worsens isolation. The invention of printing formerly enabled people to understand one another. In the era of universal graphomania, the writing of books has an opposite meaning: everyone surrounded by his own words as by a wall of mirrors, which allows no voice to filter through from outside. ...
One morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived..."
Sounds like a good book(!!!), doesn't it? [Link]
I think with Internet and Blogging this era has arrived a while ago...
ISBN: 0060932147
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