To have Eclipse use a particular Java VM :
Edit the eclipse.ini file and add the vm argument below the line org.eclipse.platform
-vm /absolute/path/to/your/java/executable
I’ve found this particularly useful on Windows when I’ve installed and removed various versions of JDK and eclipse appears completely lost and confused.
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To have Eclipse use a particular Java VM
Posted in Java, Linux on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
mandriva installation on acer 5050 laptop
Posted in Linux, tagged acer, laptop, Linux, mandriva, ubuntu on April 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Kubuntu left a lot to be desired on my machine so I looked around for another good KDE distro and found Mandriva!
What works out of the box:
External Speakers! Hallelujah! Finally!!
Desktop effects run right off the live CD
What doesn´t:
Webcam still doesn´t work but that´s really low on priority
Power management is still a pain [...]
tora – a toad alternative for linux
Posted in Linux on January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With my recent conversion to Linux one of the first things I missed was a familiar DB client.
I’d been working with Toad on Windows for quite a bit now and had grown rather used to the interface. I needed a similar replacement on Linux. A search for “Toad + Linux” threw up a lot [...]
subversion setup
Posted in Linux on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Install subversion on Ubuntu :
sudo apt-get
install subversion
Check the installation :
svn –version
svnadmin –version
Create a repository :
mkdir ~/svn-repos
svnadmin create ~/svn-repos
At this point you should have a folder called svn-repos in your home directory with [...]
kubuntu on acer aspire 5050 laptop
Posted in Linux on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When I first decided to shift from Windows to Linux, these were the main reasons:
Costly upgrades : I was running XP SP1, however if I needed to play .mp4 files I would need media player 9 for which I would need IE7+ which will only run on XP SP2. So blow up thousands [...]
