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Some odd TiVo issues

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I have  couple a couple of Series2 TiVo DVRs and they just received the TiVo Fall 2008 Service Update for 9.3.2.  It’s basically a few tweaks to the UI, but ...

DevTrack woes with build 1833 of mfc80.dll

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We use TechExcel’s DevTrack tool to track our defects and project modifications.  A few weeks ago, one of our QA specialists installed SQL Server 2008 Expres...

Installation is not configuration

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Christopher Painter has a good post about the problems inherent with with having installers run SQL scripts.  Having an installer communicate with a database...