Archive for October, 2007
I give up — Eclipse is crap
I ran Eclipse up for the first time in a week or two this morning, and it complained that the editor couldn’t be opened. A class couldn’t be found, apparently. Ok, fine. Close that error window, double-click on a .java file and the editor opens up on that file just fine. Weird.
Perhaps something I’ve done [...]
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H500 problems
I’ve had one little problem with Ubuntu over the last day or two. I’ve installed twinkle to let me make VOIP calls via my Engin account (works perfectly, btw) but because the Dell 9400 doesn’t have a built-in microphone (what were you thinking, Dell??) I need an external microphone of some sort.
I figured the neatest [...]
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7.10 upgrade
I did the upgrade to 7.10 yesterday, and everything ran absolutely perfectly. There’s two ways you can do the upgrade: (1) burn an ISO, boot off that ISO and upgrade the installation, or (2) do the upgrade in-place via the software update tool.
I initially tried to use the ISO image, but ran into the same [...]
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Microtek X6 scanner
This morning, for this first time in living memory, I had to scan a document.
The only scanner I’ve got is an old Microtek X6 SCSI device. I’ve got Ubuntu running on a desktop machine here as well as the Inspiron 9400, so I found and installed an appropriate SCSI card (an Adaptec 2940, FWIW) in [...]
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Ubuntu 7.10 is out
You’ve might have have already seen on the wires that 7.10 is out. I’ll be pulling a copy through the tubes some time in the next few days — most likely when I get back into the office and can use the ADSL2+ connection. Once I’ve got it, it will be my first Ubuntu upgrade. [...]
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Eclipse really, really annoys me
I’m pretty much ready to give up on Eclipse for my Linux+Java development work. It’s too flakey. As much as I’d like to work in a modern Java IDE with all the refactoring goodness they bring to the party it’s just too unstable for me to use. It might work in other parallel universes, but [...]
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Eclipse frustration
It’s not an Ubuntu issue per se, but I’ve been really frustrated trying to get Eclipse setup and working correctly. It’s the first time I’ve seriously looked at Eclipse. The idea of a universal platform that your development tools plug into is good in principle, but I’m not convinced it’s there just yet. I’ve been [...]
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Secure wifi
I mentioned a few days ago that I hadn’t tried to connect to a secure wifi connection yet. Well, I have now, and everything works just fine. It’s still not quite as slick as Windows wifi handling, because there have been a few times I’ve had to reboot to get the wifi working correctly, but [...]
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