Fix “the installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and you can access it”

January 8th, 2010

Use Windows Installer Cleanup Utility

OR
Reinstall windows installer

OR
Upgrade the windows installer


MAC – Reset office 2008 serial

December 29th, 2009

I use a time machine backup to build MAC’s for our employees, saves me time on install and configurations, however our MAC users use office 2008 and require a unique key from our licensed copy. to re enter the office serial I just run the following two commands in terminal :

rm "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/OfficePID.plist"
rm "~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist"

and re launch office.


MAC – Change default umask in Snow Leopard

December 22nd, 2009

echo "umask 002" >> /etc/launchd-user.conf.

reboot

Read more about it here: apple kb


CentOS 5.4 – install oracle client

October 22nd, 2009

oracle install will need :

yum install xorg-x11-deprecated-libs


CentOS 5 – add dag repo

October 22nd, 2009

rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm