Whoever writes these error messages doesn’t understand the meaning of “more”. C:\Documents and Settings\Elliot>net start msiserver The Windows Installer service is starting. The Windows Installer service could not be started. The service did not report an error. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534. C:\Documents and Settings\Elliot>net helpmsg 3534 The service did not…Continue Reading…
“The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in a safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance.” I read and tried lots of solutions around the web, but most of them didn’t work. This solved it for…Continue Reading…
From the recovery console: del c:\windows\system32\config\system copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config\system That did the trick. My device drivers are mostly uninstalled, and some of my settings were reset (notably, video settings). But this was easily to fix: Windows already had all the drivers, so I just had to go through the motions of clicking through the driver…Continue Reading…
That title summarizes my computing adventure for the weekend. If you understand it, contact me. We should be friends, if we aren’t already. I’ll go into more detail once I get the problem fixed. At the moment, my taskbar is dead (taskbar doesn’t show applications), the clipboard doesn’t work, and I’m afraid to reboot. But…Continue Reading…
This is a great article about using such phrasing as “x times faster” or “x times as fast.” It also brings in the notion of something “increasing twofold.” I was looking at how to calculate how much “quicker” something is for my computer science lab, so I did a Google search for calculating “times faster.”…Continue Reading…
Awesome stuff. < ?php $cachefile = 'cache/index-cached.html'; $cachetime = 5 * 60; // Serve from the cache if it is younger than $cachetime if (file_exists($cachefile) && time() - $cachetime < filemtime($cachefile)) { include($cachefile); echo "\n”; exit; } ob_start(); // Start the output buffer /* The code to dynamically generate the page goes here */ //...Continue Reading…