Windows-Installer MSI: failing without a trace

Did you ever try to install a program on a microsoft windows OS with msi (Microsoft Installer)? This type of installation mostly works, but sometimes the process ends with a dialog: "There was an error .. Please try again"
And of course, everyone tries again, but just the same dialog. Ok. Reboot. Same dialog...
Hmm - this will not work.
If you ask some friends, you get the typical answers:

• use a real operating system
• on Linux this never happens
• buy a MAC

But not the OS is the problem. The problem is, that there are no logfiles for the installation process.
However, this can be changed:

• Start regedit and edit the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\
  Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer
• Add Reg_SZ: Logging
• Set Logging to "v"
• open a shell via cmd and type "cd %temp%". In this directory you will find logfiles of the next installations.
  

Next please...

Today i read in my newspaper about IT-hypes of the last years. www.faz.net built up a list how a company has to communicate to its customers:

• 2003: friendster
• 2004: blogs/wikis
• 2005: cyworld
• 2006: podcasts
• 2007: second life
• 2008: facebook/myspace
• 2009: twitter
• 2010: foursquare/apps

Wow... Do you remember all of them? (if not just ask google ;-)
And what about 2011 (i know 2010 is young, but i think the apps are just unbeatable...)

and the winner is:

If you are insterested, here a link to a nice pdf about the boat USA.

"Oracle has finalized the Sun transaction and the deal has closed."

The title of this blogging is from the offical website from oracle "Overview and Frequently Asked Questions for the Developer Community".
So what are the important answers for these questions?

For the near future, all these sites [Sun Developer Network, java.sun.com, and BigAdmin] will remain in their current form.

Java.net is an important part of the community, and Oracle will continue
to invest in it—as well as look for new and better ways to support its
membership

NetBeans.org will continue to be available at the usual URL—no changes.

We will also communicate important admin/Solaris-related news through
BigAdmin's existing newsletter.

But what has changed with closing the deal?
If you try www.sun.com you get redirected to www.oracle.com and you can find the hardware here:

And after some clicks you will see something like this:

If you want to get the sun hardware more quickly, you can use http://catalogs.sun.com.