Disabling open office registration wizard GOTCHA

There’s a hell of a gotcha with the offical guide to disabling the first-time registration dialog in openoffice 3.3.0. The reference from the META-INF/manifest.xml to the file setup.xcu is broken, because the file in DisableFirstStartWzd_ooo33.oxt is Setup.xcu with a capital S. This will work fine under Windows/NTFS/FAT, but NOT under UNIX systems like Linux, OS… Continue reading Disabling open office registration wizard GOTCHA

Tomcat7 server in eclipse with ubuntu

Annoyingly there isn’t one “installation directory” for tomcat on ubuntu, instead it is spread across /var/log, /usr/share /var/lib etc. Eclipse expects one directory with log, conf etc. This can be fixed with a few carefully placed symlinks. sudo apt-get install tomcat7 # fix directories cd /usr/share/tomcat7 sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/conf conf sudo ln -s /var/log/tomcat7… Continue reading Tomcat7 server in eclipse with ubuntu