Here’s the message that OpenOffice.org 3.1 threw up at me when I tried to run it … “The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more details.” The platform: Vista Home Premium 32bit (SP2) on an Intel dual-celeron rig. Here’s what I tried, things [...]
N.B. * Resolved * Problem; When installing OS X Server 10.5.8 update, the update fails. The error message reads; “The installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.” I did a bit of Bing’ing for solutions (Ouch, that was horrible! Bing is such an ugly verb…) and most [...]
N.B.; Problem solved. Thanks to the miracle of MSDN subscriptions, I’m privileged to be in the possession of a (legally licensed and perfectly legitimate) copy of the brand new release of Windows 7 …. not the RC, mind, the RTM made available so that manufacturers and the like can prepare computer for release on the [...]
Not really day one, but hey… So here we go. My current goal is to try to figure out why the network settings in my experimental Fedora 10 computer would not stick. No matter how many times I set the network cards to “manual” and laid out the settings, each restart would see them revert [...]
