May 2010

Office 2010 Professional Plus on Win 7 breaks Excel file associations

Submitted by pwnell on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 18:48

I have just removed Office 2007 Professional and installed Office 2010 Professional Plus RTM on my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machine.  I chose the x64 bit version of Office.

However, all my .xls and .xlsx file associations were missing.  And it did not help going to File -> Properties -> Change association as no matter what I did, I could not add Excel to the list of applications.  No amount of Repair / etc worked.

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JBoss Seam not rendering any tags?

Submitted by pwnell on Sat, 05/22/2010 - 17:38

If you ever run into the weird situation where you use JBoss Seam with Facelets and everything seems to be working, except the page does not render any tag - no matter whether it is s, h, f, a4j, rich or ui (the common abbreviations for them), then have a look at faces-config.xml.  I once made the simple mistake of calling the file faces_config.xml, effectively the same as not having that file.  However since it WAS there and did look almost like faces-config.xml, I missed it for 3 hours.

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Ubuntu 10.04 x64 and Sun JDK 1.6

Submitted by pwnell on Sun, 05/23/2010 - 23:49

If you are in the same boat as I am, upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 you will find Sun's JDK not to be present after the upgrade.  Trying to apt-get it does not work since the package is not present in the default sources.list.  I usually download it from http://www.java.com/, and use

sh jdk-6u20-linux-x64.bin 

to execute it.  In my case I received this error:

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