Glenn F. Henriksen - Operating Systems

Installing Sony Ericsson PC Suite on Vista

Your DisplayName here! — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:29:52 GMT

Update: SonyEricsson have upgraded their PC Suite to support Vista. So head on over to their support page, pick your phone and download the PC Suite for XP/Vista. Works like a charm.

I have a SonyEricsson K810i phone and have been using the SonyEricsson PC Suite to syncronize it with my Outlook. For an absent minded guy like me, having my phone warn me when I have to be somewhere is invaluable.

However, Sony Ericsson has been rather slow in their Vista support. It just won't install, giving you a message that you need to run Windows XP or 2000. They say that Vista support for PC Suite will be available in Q2 2007 and on forums and blogs September 2007 is often mentioned.

But there is a way to install the PC Suite on Vista today. It involves editing the .msi file to remove the OS condition and remove two files that are updated in Vista that will cause the installer to hang.

Joel at thinktekno has the details.

I did not have to install the m-router. During the installation the installer hung for ages at the end but it came through eventually. Just have patience.

Installing SQL 2005 Reporting Services on Vista

Your DisplayName here! — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:06:42 GMT

In order to install the SQL 2005 Express edition with Reporting Services you have to have IIS properly installed. It's not enough to just install it and be happy about it, you'll have to enable some services for it to.

Otherwise you'll get a warning in the System Configuration Checker of the SQL setup: "Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is either not installed or is disabled."

KB920201 has the details on what you have to install. And don't forget to use the SP2 version of SQL Server.

Last chance this generation to dominate the desktop

Your DisplayName here! — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:42:04 GMT

Eric S. Raymond has an interesting article where he claims that 2008 is a hard deadline for an operating system to become the standard for desktop computing. With 64-bit hardware coming out there is an opening for any OS to become dominant on the new hardware platform and Raymond contends that by 2008 the de facto standard will be set and network effects will do the rest.

Steven Den Beste (fantastic surname :) ) has an interesting view on why Linux won't make it as the dominant desktop platform, comparing it to Christianity in the 17th century.