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Eating steak with a dull knife

Friday, March 12th, 2010

What do people expect from your brand on the internet?

In the past, companies relied on putting out a solid product or offering a quality service. Their internet presence may have been a little clumsy and unreliable, but customers were willing to forgive a painful online experience. After all, doing business on the internet was something that very few companies were doing perfectly. There was a time when a mediocre online presence was better than no online presence at all.


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Eclipse crash – Ubuntu 8.04 RESOLUTION

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

This little problem of Eclipse 3.x on Ubuntu 7+ crashing once in awhile… wait, sorry, make that every few minutes… has been driving me nuts. The good news is a simple workaround exists: launching Eclipse from the command line.

Here’s an explanation, although the solution below is specific to Eclipse 3.2.

If you’re running Eclipse 3.3 like me, these instructions explain how to use the Equinox launcher.

Or if you’re in a rush, simply cut and paste this script, modify to your needs, chmod +x, execute from a terminal window, and you’re rolling:

#!/bin/bash
# set path to eclipse folder. If local folder, use '.'; otherwise, use /path/to/eclipse/
eclipsehome="/opt/eclipse";
 
# get path to equinox jar inside $eclipsehome folder
cp=$(find $eclipsehome -name "org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_*.jar" | sort | tail -1);
 
# start Eclipse w/ java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.5.0_15/bin/java -cp $cp org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main ...

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