I thought it would be nice to watch the Democratic National Convention tonight, and since I don’t have TV I went to the DNC webpage where I hoped to watch it live online.
Luckily, they were streaming the Convention live!
Unluckily, I had to install a Microsoft Silverlight plugin to watch it.
Silverlight is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash, Java, and some number of other products that facilitate multimedia viewing on the web. I first downloaded the Silverlight plugin to my Firefox 3 browser so that I could watch the Olympics online. When I tried to install it, I got some kind of “command-line parameter error” or something. I tried again. Same problem. I tried many times.
Then I realized I could watch the Olympics without installing the plugin. Thank goodness. Why did I need to install it in the first place?
Anyway – same ploblem tonight. Tried to install the Silverlight plugin. Got the same command-line error.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Most plugins work flawlessly for me. I normally have no beef with Microsoft (I love Windows…XP), but this is ridiculous, especially considering Silverlight is miraculously being tied to so many big events (Olympics, DNC, probably other things…?).
Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.
This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.
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wait – you don’t have a tv?
I have a TV, I just don’t have cable. I used to, but I canceled it when I moved.
If you have a file c:\windows\asusinstall\install.exe, try renaming it to installX.exe or something else. It’s a motherboard-related ASUS installer that interferes with some other installers.
was having the same problem, ran across this fix and it worked, thanks a lot