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Category Archives: Applications

My Product Code Is Bigger Than Yours..

28-Aug-08

I thought 25 character product keys where a pain in the proverbial, but this one takes the cake. I won’t tell you which application this authorisation code is for, but it’s a whopping 93 characters long..

AF3KALKNHEU777AGRBZ672EKB6I53P6VRND7PLPHCVFWGNSDNB4WYK55HE7YX2TWTLU78M8KLYZ4QERNT3K56OH6TSAXC

(I’ve changed the code slightly to protect the guilty).

What happened here today was a miracle

06-Aug-08

“and I want you to f**king acknowledge it!”

I kid you not, this is a error message I saw yesterday in an Oracle Forms application.

Free MSI Editor: InstEd

31-Jul-08

I haven’t used Orca to edit MSI files since I found Camwood appEditor around November last year. Since then though, appEditor has become has become InstEd and it’s even better than its’ predecessor.

This is a great way to edit MSI files and create transforms, being able to see the MSI with the Components and [...]

You cannot share the Normal.dot file among multiple users in Word

18-Feb-07

On a semi-regular basis I see an issue on customer networks whereby users receive errors in Microsoft Word similar to the following:
Word cannot save changes to the global template because it was opened with read-only access. Do you want to save the changes in a template with a different name?

This is caused when a NORMAL.DOT [...]