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The Wisdom of Crowds, Revisited: When The Crowd Goes From Wise to Wrong | Artful Choice | Big Think

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The Wisdom of Crowds, Revisited: When The Crowd Goes From Wise to Wrong | Artful Choice | Big Think. Interesting that PNAS suggest that crowds aren’t so wise after all. Nothing is ever so simple is it? I think that people often don’t realize the dueling nature of desires and thoughts they possess.

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“Invalid Drive X:\” install errors for iTunes

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Apple – Support – Discussions -.  b noir as usual has it all worked out.  Various solutions to this problem.  I think that the Windows Installer CleanUp utility is a better way to handle this problem than the other suggestion he makes.

 

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Ever get this message? The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. Click OK to try again, or enter and alternate path to a folder containing the installation package “iTunes.msi” in the box below.” It then gives me 2 options under “Use source:

b noir has the answer.  It solved it from the orginal poster and one other person.

These sorts of msi-related troubles have gotten more complicated to deal with ever since Microsoft pulled the Windows Installer CleanUp utility from their Download Center on June 25.

Let’s try Googling. (Best not to use Bing, I think.) Look for a working download site for at least version 3.0 of the Windows Installer CleanUp utility. After downloading the utility installer file (msicuu2.exe), scan the file for malware, just in case. (I use the free version of Malwarebytes AntiMalware to do single-file scans for that.)

If the file is clean, to install the utility, doubleclick the msicuu2.exe file you’ve downloaded.

Now run the utility (“Start > All Programs > Windows Install CleanUp”). In the list of programs that appears in CleanUp, select any iTunes entries and click “Remove”.

Quit out of CleanUp, restart the PC and try installing iTunes 9.2 again. Does the install go through properly this time?

(If you do find a clean download site for the correct version of CleanUp, please don’t tell me where it is. Without wishing to sound paranoid (although I grant it does sound paranoid), there is a non-zero chance that posting links to download locations for the utility here at Discussions leads to that download location being shut down.)

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Help please. ….

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[HOW-TO] Free disk space being used for Windows Installer data files (via Falcon1986-Online)

Pretty amazing for 50GB to be taken with Windows Installer data files. Good work!

[HOW-TO] Free disk space being used for Windows Installer data files At the office where I work over the summer, one of my responsibilities is performing basic computer maintenance. I encountered one Windows XP computer that only had about 2GB of free space left on an 80GB capacity hard disk. Even after running a cleanup with CCleaner and scanning for malware, there was no significant change in free space. The computer’s owner only had about 4GB of her own data and not many applications were installed. I got suspi … Read More

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