For a while now Microsoft have tried to force loads of office updates onto my computer. It may have been nice and all, if I had any Microsoft Office installed.
But I don't.
The puter came with some trial installation of Office witch I promptly removed upon discovery.
Some trailing files still remained in my system and those where grounds enough to continue offer me updates. I tried to remove these as well, but ran into troubles with Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 2.
I found that Microsoft offered a special removal tool for this, called office2007spuninstall.exe.
That didn't work either. Upon running oarpman.exe (that is the content of this removal tool), it blamed msi with the error code 1603.
However the log of msi revealed the true installation file for the package I wanted to remove, in my case it was c:WindowsInstaller58b10.msi.
Right clicking on this file selecting uninstall and then restarting, successfully removed the last part of Office.
Hopefully
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Solution to a common proplem running virtualmin on Debian
If you install Virtualmin manually on an existing Apache installation you may encounter a couple of suexec errors.
The first one usually directs you to use suexec-custom instead if suexec. But doing so without further configuration, still gives you this error:
Error
Failed to save enabled features : The Suexec command on your system is configured to only run scripts under /var/www, but the Virtualmin base directory is /home. CGI and PHP scripts run as domain owners will not be executed.
To resolve this you should find your way to: etc/apache2/suexec/ and edit the file www-data
The file will look something like this:
/var/www
public_html/cgi-bin
# The first two lines contain the suexec document root and the suexec userdir
# suffix. Both features can be disabled separately by prepending a # character.
# This config file is only used by the apache2-suexec-custom package.
Change the path from /var/www to /home
There's no need to recompile anything.
The first one usually directs you to use suexec-custom instead if suexec. But doing so without further configuration, still gives you this error:
Error
Failed to save enabled features : The Suexec command on your system is configured to only run scripts under /var/www, but the Virtualmin base directory is /home. CGI and PHP scripts run as domain owners will not be executed.
To resolve this you should find your way to: etc/apache2/suexec/ and edit the file www-data
The file will look something like this:
/var/www
public_html/cgi-bin
# The first two lines contain the suexec document root and the suexec userdir
# suffix. Both features can be disabled separately by prepending a # character.
# This config file is only used by the apache2-suexec-custom package.
Change the path from /var/www to /home
There's no need to recompile anything.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
The doorless balcony
Mum always wanted a balcony, she told dad many, many years ago.
I'll think about it, dad said.
After a few years of thinking, dad built her one.
In our family we are quite literal, upon which, mum immediately regret not mentioning a balcony door.
I'll think about it , dad said.
So he did,
However, mum wanted a new colour as well.
Also, even if she needed a door, she did not approve on the unbalanced look a door would cause.
This time mum did the thinking so dad could get started with the painting.
A lot of things got done over the years as they passed.
But still no balcony door.
Until the summer of 2009.
However, a bit more thinking where required. Hmm, door but no door.
We should put it over here, so we don't have to move the pipes for the radiator.
We removed the facade boards to check for hidden obstacles.
All clear.
We had planned to build the door out of the piece we where about to cut out.
This where the scariest moment, from this point there would be no more "Yes, next summer, perhaps".
One heavy block of old boards, to heavy to turn into a door.
We had to build a new one.
We saved one part from the window frame to be used at the top of the door.
A two piece door secured normal use of the window and saved us lots of space that a frame would cause.
Some angles had to be sorted out.
A high threshold left the skirting board untouched (mum's request)
New door fitted, engage the "cover up phase".
Even the inside where supposed to be as untouched as it could
Hooked up in place.
Rather good for a non looking door.
I'll think about it, dad said.
After a few years of thinking, dad built her one.
In our family we are quite literal, upon which, mum immediately regret not mentioning a balcony door.
I'll think about it , dad said.
So he did,
However, mum wanted a new colour as well.
Also, even if she needed a door, she did not approve on the unbalanced look a door would cause.
This time mum did the thinking so dad could get started with the painting.
A lot of things got done over the years as they passed.
But still no balcony door.
Until the summer of 2009.
However, a bit more thinking where required. Hmm, door but no door.
We should put it over here, so we don't have to move the pipes for the radiator.
We removed the facade boards to check for hidden obstacles.
All clear.
We had planned to build the door out of the piece we where about to cut out.
This where the scariest moment, from this point there would be no more "Yes, next summer, perhaps".
One heavy block of old boards, to heavy to turn into a door.
We had to build a new one.
We saved one part from the window frame to be used at the top of the door.
A two piece door secured normal use of the window and saved us lots of space that a frame would cause.
Some angles had to be sorted out.
A high threshold left the skirting board untouched (mum's request)
New door fitted, engage the "cover up phase".
Even the inside where supposed to be as untouched as it could
Hooked up in place.
Rather good for a non looking door.
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