Bootcamp 3.2 Update "Boot Camp Services Setup failed".

I downloaded the BootCamp updater for Bootcamp 3.2 from Apple's website. When I tried to run the installer, it completes it's initialization, then fails with a simple, and annoyingly short message: "Boot Camp Services Setup failed".

I got a similar message when updating to 3.1 when it came out.

Turns out that Apple's updater doesn't deal well with extra display drivers. I use VNC for work and it installs a video driver called Mirage Driver. I had to manually remove that driver in the

device manager Display Adapters section (I get there by right clicking "my computer" -> Properties. Then go to Hardware tab and open the first tool "Device Manager".) I've read that if there is anything other than the video card driver there, BootCamp installer will choke.

Hope it helps someone out there figure things out.

I have been having a hard time seeing the difference between an 'a' and 'o' in my code recently and decided to find a different font. After searching around the Internet, I found Inconsolata. While looking for a good source I found a version with strait quotes that is quite pleasing.

You can read more about it on this site or just do a search for Inconsolata-dz:
http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-double-quotes-inconsola/

I also changed the theme of my Microsoft Visual to a dark background.

Both the font and the darker background make a huge difference to the readability and less eyestrain to code. I highly recommend spending a little time tweaking your dev environment so that is comfortable for you.

Adobe Unit Types.osax

I had a fun one today. I have been having random crashes and my Mac OS 10.6 application switcher and doc were crashing. So I pulled up the console log to see what errors I was getting and ... I have a ton of these:

osascript ... Error loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

Found a solution on this page: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/516/cpsid_51615.html

essentially you have to download the 64 bit version of the adobe unit types.osax and save it to the right place.

Hopefully that fixes one of the errors!