Guardian of the infinite abyss

How I fixed Adobe AIR for the Mac OS

I have been running Adboe AIR apps for about 7 months now. This past week I was trying to install Twhirl on my MacBook running Mac OS 10.5.4. When I got the error that the app could not be installed:

“The application could not be installed because the AIR file is damaged. Try obtaining a new AIR file from the application author.”

And this message in the console:

7/20/08 12:39:48 AM com.apple.launchd[103] ([0x0-0x43043].com.adobe.air.ApplicationInstaller[303]) Exited with exit code: 7

I tried the following:

Windows Server 2008 First Thoughts

This week I was finally able to take Windows Server 2008 for a test spin. When I first started installing it I saw the usual Windows installer that I expected. Like with previous version of the Windows Server line the installer grabs the look and feel of the workstation line. Windows Server 2008 is no different. As I am going through the paces with the installer, I am thinking "yes it looks good, but can it blend?"

Computer Recycling List

I always seem to need a list to recycling programs but never seem to have one handy.

A List of computer recycling and inkjet or LaserJet cartridges programs:

Computers

Previewing PHP in Aptana Studio (MAC OS X)

For those who are not familiar who Aptana Studio or MAMP: Apatana studio is a free development environment for AJAX. Aptana also has plugins for PHP, Ruby on Rails and Adobe AIR. MAMP stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer.

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