Among the other projects I’m spinnin’, I’ve been working with Computrition support to get some end-user issues resolved. I won’t go into the issues, but yesterday I made a breakthrough.
After some playing my laptop starting working correctly (at least on the one issue I’m pursuing). OK, so on to the desktop. Not so much. After hours of installing and uninstalling the Oracle 10g client and the Computrition app … and hacking my registry … still nothing.
So more fighting, moving some files, renaming directories – spoofing the registry. Ah, success.
So I figure – easy (yeah, right). But doable. So I headed downstairs to duplicate the ‘solution’ – aka trashing everything and starting again. I think it’s related to having an oracle 8i client AND an oracle 10g client, but I’m really not sure yet. But things downstairs on that machine didn’t work. Weird. So back to square/circle one. I thought I was super close, now I’m not so sure. Maybe my computers just work cuz they fear me. Wouldn’t be the first time….
Anyway so thursday I’ll call support and have them talk me through a full purge and reinstall. Then we can try again. Here’s hoping!