• ADOBE CS3 and Vista pleasures - Part Deux

    As in my previous blog "Adobe CS3 and Vista pleasures"  I had to carry out another install on the CS3.

    This time around, however, the greeting jscript.dll error had a particular flavor to it.

    Last time around I forgot to mention that the reason this DLL results in error is that it was unregistered by the users in order to run their iTunes 7.1 Installation on their Vistas and have their iPods successfully synchronize.

    On this particular box, re-registering the DLL with "
    regsvr32 jscript.dll" resulted in a "Catastrophic failure" with nothing but an OK button. Without loosing my ...
  • Adobe CS3 and Vista pleasures

    < p>< p>After the daunting experience of waiting for a reseller of Adobe products to get back to us with an upgrade price quote and meanwhile Adobe pleasantly surprising us with their Eastern European online store, we finally had the upgrade kit in our hands (drives).< p>< p>< p>

    < p>Time to pleasantly surprise the Creative and User Experience teams – those lucky few that warrior with Vista on a daily basis. My heart raced as fast as I staired down toward the team’s chapter and moused quickly to the install folder. After an aggrivative  (Not responding) semi-transperant window was given it’s time to decompress the huge 1.6 Gb file, we had the setup unpacked ...
  • Comparing and Merging Millions of Records

    I recently bumped into a situation when I had to compare a scattered backup (read that as multiple incremental backups, with corrupt archives and missing volumes) into a working directory and compare all the contents to a functional backup, inserting any missing files across multiple subdirectories in the right destination.

    I just had hard time explaining what I was supposed to do, so I need not elaborate how much hard time I had deciding what road I should go down in the search of the correct tool.

    After some serious drilling, I came to a wonderful tool which would be ...