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Programs Cannot Be Uninstalled In Vista? 469

Posted by kdawson on Sunday July 15, 2007 @12:45PM from the hardly-a-feature dept.

Corson writes "I am surprised that nobody seems to have mentioned this here yet. Possibly after one of the latest updates in Windows Vista, two strange things happened: first, the Uninstall option is no longer available in the Control Panel when you right-click on older programs (most likely, those installed prior to the update in question, because uninstall works fine for recently installed programs — the Uninstall button is also missing on the toolbar at the top); second, some programs are no longer shown on the applications list in Control Panel (e.g., Yahoo Messenger). A Google search returns quite a few hits on this issue (e.g., one, two, three, and four) but everybody seems to be waiting patiently for a sign from Microsoft. But the company seems to have no clue or they would have fixed it already. I am just curious how many of you are experiencing this nuisance."

Zune DRM Cracked 232

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 15, 2007 @10:57AM from the that-took-a-bit-longer-than-epected dept.

An anonymous reader noted that Zune Scene is reporting that the Zune DRM has been cracked with software now available that strips the DRM from Zune Marketplace tracks and those shared with WiFi.

Submission + - Adobe open sources Flex SDK under MPL

Submitted by

andy_from_nc

on Thursday April 26, 2007 @12:20AM

andy_from_nc writes: "Adobe announced that they are open sourcing their Flex SDK under the Mozilla Public License incrementally by December. This move comes on the heels of Microsoft's announcement of their Silverlight and Adobe's CEO's criticism of it. The move will likely please other open source developers who use Flex like me and offer hope that we'll see a full open source version of Flash one day. You can read Adobe's FAQ on the move as well."

Comment I call this FUD... (Score 1) 373

by CompotatoJ on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @11:45PM (#18865543) Attached to: Digital Camera Vs. Camera Phone

The reason the that the camera-phone picture turned out a lot better was because the person did not know how to use the DSLR. I would like to see this test with the EXIF data in tact and not have the pictures edited in Photoshop first. Judging by the high amount of noise on the DSLR picture, the camera was set at a very high ISO. If the person actually knew how to use the camera they could take a lot better picture.

I suspect that the author is just trying to get people to visit his article so CNET can make money off the advertisements.

Submission + - TV delays drive viewers to piracy

Submitted by Astat1ne on Saturday February 24, 2007 @09:56PM

Astat1ne writes: The Register has a story about the delays Australian TV viewers are experiencing with overseas-produced series and how it is driving many of them to download the shows via BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer networks. From the story: "According to a survey based on a sample of 119 current or recent free-to-air TV series', Australian viewers are waiting an average of almost 17 months for the first run series' first seen overseas. Over the past two years, average Australian broadcast delays for free-to-air television viewers have more than doubled from 7.9 to 16.7 months." According to the article, the situation is compounded by the fact that Australian viewers are unable to download legal copies of the episodes from the US iTunes website and are turning to unauthorised means to get copies of their favorite shows.

Submission + - Creative Commons v3.0 licences launched

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24, 2007 @08:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: Creative Commons announced the release of its licences on Friday 23 Feb 2007. Changes include "Clarifications Negotiated With Debian and MIT", CC-BY-SA "compatibility structure", endorsement control, etc.

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