I had this issue on a brand new Dell Vostro laptop. After all the pissing about that I had to go through just to order the damn thing (two and a half hours on the phone to some lady in god-knows-where who’s first language was NOT English, dammit) it arrived with XP pre-installed and Vista [...]
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 [...]
