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Have you ever wanted to implement Seam's rich:DataList but the search results could be in the tens or hundreds of thousand of records?  Well, I did recently run into that exact issue.  For the first attempt I tried to use the standard binding method, but knew it could never work in a production environment.

I recently had the odd situation where trying to connect to a shared printer on a Windows XP workstation, a member of the AD domain, did not work.  It failed to connect.  However, connecting using the IP address of the host worked just fine.

DNS entries were all registered correctly for the netbios name, and pinging the host from the server resolved it just fine.  No firewalls were blocking file/print sharing ports, file and print sharing was turned on...

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:

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.

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.

For those intrigued individuals desperately seeking the truth behind my elusive Pony car... Behold - I present to you:  

Critical Specs:

Make/Model:2010 Ford Mustang V6 Coupe Automatic

Colour: Silver

New?: Yes

I know this post is a bit out of sequence, but I just processed this photo I took on 11 March 2010. Spring was in full swing when we had a sudden snow fall one morning - all the pink blossoms were covered in a white blanket. Quite cool!