Life and technology

You may use older version of MS-word (i.e. Word 2000/xp/2003). Once you got new version (.docx) of word document, you can not open it. In such a case you have to select alternative way of opening this document. You can select/download free pdf converter and convert .docx to .pdf version. But you can do it easily with Google Doc.

First open .docx document in Google Doc. (Upload the .docx document or open document with Google Doc). Then select File->Download As->PDF.

Google Doc converts .docx to pdf document and download it to your computer.

Alternatively you can select File->Print. Then document will open in the web page as a pdf document. (I haven't check with printer installed PC)

I installed xampp for my new project and installation was fine. But when i stared testing that everything is correctly working, I found that Apache does not start even though MySQL starts properly. Initially I thought that it was due to some issue with installation. First I reinstalled it and checked. Unfortunately I got same issue. Then I checked the windows system log files in event viewer. The log file content was

The Apache2.2 service terminated with service-specific error 1 (0x1).

Suddenly I remembered that I needs to check the Apache log file too. The log file said that it encountered some issue with port (80, default). Then I realized that Apache default port conflict with some application running in the same port. Finally I found that it was Skype . I made change the settings in the skype and problem resolved. The setting that I changed in skype was;

Tools -> Option -> Advanced -> Connection -> Uncheck "Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections"