Microsoft said Wednesday it has reposted a tool to the Internet that aids installingWindows 7 on Netbooks and computers without an optical drive.The software maker pulled the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool off its Web site last month after it was pointed out that the software appeared to use open-source code licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL v2). Ed Hardy T-shirtMicrosoft later apologized and said that the code did in fact use GPL code. Microsoft said it would repost the tool and make it open source under the terms of the GPL.Microsoft posted the open-source version of the tool on Wednesday, although it took longer than the company had originally anticipated.”As we previously explained, the testing and localization took longer than we expected, but the project is now hosted on CodePlex.com, Microsoft’s Open Source software project hosting repository,” Microsoft open-source community manager Peter Galli said in a blog posting.Also, the whole effort to get Windows 7 onto a Netbook now takes longer as several other pieces of code that had been includedEd Hardy Men Long T-Shirts with the tool are now separate downloads. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina.
Twitter is working on a fix for a problem that has caused some of its users to receive tweets in their timelines that were meant for other parties, the company ed Hardy Women Hoodyannounced on its status page Wednesday.The issue started earlier this week, when Twitter received some reports from users saying that tweets were cropping up in their timelines that didn’t seem intended for them. Twitter asked for help from users on Tuesday on its Known Issues page. The company requested that users experiencing the tweet misdirection issue include their username, the “stranger’s” username, and a link to the stranger’s tweet.A look at some of the issues users are having.(Credit:Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)The issue seems rather widespread. The post is littered with comments left by users that have been affected by the problem. Even those with protected accountsgucci t shirts men have received misdirected tweets.For now, Twitter has yet to find a solution to the problem. The company wrote a quick entry on its status blog on Wednesday, saying “some users are seeing tweets (that aren’t retweets) from users they do not follow.” It pointed users to the Twitter issues page and said it is “working on fixing the underlying cause.”Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.If you’re experiencing the misdirected-tweet problem, you can let Twitter know here.We’ll update this space as we learn more. Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has written about everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
