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Ran into this error tonight trying to uninstall SQL Server Reporting Services. Not sure if it is just Vista, or XP and other OS’s as well, but the fix is to stop IIS and then re-run the Uninstall.
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Wow, another Windows 2008 post. :)
Was having to FTP some stuff today, and I use FileZilla, which was working fine. I wanted to do a Beyond Compare with a folder and the FTP and it was erroring out. WTF. So I try Windows FTP (Start->Run: cmd, ftp)
I could [...]

The iPhone doesn’t do anything with Windows 2008 by default. Usually when you plug it in, it will charge it, and it will show up as a digital camera in your My Computer. Windows 2008 , it just sits there, fails driver install, and does nothing.
If you install iTunes (ugh) , then [...]

Ugh. Found this one out the hard way. Usually when you change underlying object id’s in SQL Server Analysis Services, it shouldn’t cause any harm. You might have some XMLA to process dim’s and measure groups, if so you would have to change those, etc. But all reporting services reports and excel 2007 pivot tables, [...]

I have been pretty busy lately. I have some posts that I want to write up, but it seems they are getting bigger and bigger, longer. More stuff :)
Just a highlight, this weekend I decided to do a full drive backup and create a restore cd, I followed this process. http://www.darkchip.com/DriveImageXML/Complete%20System%20Recovery%20Process.html [...]

 
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Another mobile related post. Has anyone taken a look at the HTC Shift? Wow. This thing looks awesome. It is a UMPC, but can boot up Vista Business OR Windows Mobile 6. So you can use it as a cell phone, or a laptop. This thing looks like it would be .. better than [...]

Found this out this weekend, my Google Maps was continuously crashing. I was at the hotel, and the wi-fi for the hotel had the screen where it asks you to accept the ToS, or whatever. I never accepted, but was trying Google Maps on my phone, and it kept crashing. I just had to turn [...]

I have been doing some thinking lately, and more about a "Homebrew Mobile Phone". I look at the iPhone and Windows Mobile Devices, and I wonder how much it would take to get all the parts needed to make a mobile phone and load some software on it. Basically I think the hardest part is [...]

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