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wget error handling is atrocious. In these modern days, webservers kick out all kinds of crap and wget is a little antequated in the ways it expects content to be delivered. I found some bugs and fixed them for the latest stable version (1.11.4)

Patch can be found here

expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘attribute‘ before …

If you get this error unexpectedly, check your types, and check your types again.

Also don’t be a noob like me and remember to #include before wasting half an hour with a bool type in your code sticking out like a sore thumb.

Or the arduous tale of bending msiexec to your will…

An underused superpower provided by Orca, makes it possible to fiddle the parameters of an MSI (windows installer) – when you want to make Server 2003 pretend to be XP for example…

This allows you to bypass the requirements of the MSI author, no doubt put in place to achieve nought except hurling a serious pile of annoyance at you and anyone else who might be making a better OS choice.