Know the Signs of Insect Infestation Insects likely to infest archives and libraries are numerous. Their patterns of infestation and resultant damage vary not only from species to species but within species, depending on life-cycle stage: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The following list records some signs of infestation. Without exception, whenever any of these… Continue reading Subversive thoughts on Subversion
Month: March 2005
Alpine Car Stereo + Ipod
Regular readers of my blog might be surprised to learn that I have been running an Apple PowerMac as my primary home desktop for the past two and a half years. I like the digital hub strategy. My wife found the Mac slightly easier to use than our previous machine, a Linux box. (I run… Continue reading Alpine Car Stereo + Ipod
Java Webstart with Eclipse Rich Client Platform and Linux
With Linux I run Fedora Core 3. Something in Fedora Core 3 broke the Java Webstart which ships with JDK1.4.2 and JDK1.5.0. It is not fixed in JDK1.5.0 update 1, but is scheduled to be fixed in update 2. javaws uses all available cpu and does not exit. Workaround A Sun engineer has kindly provided… Continue reading Java Webstart with Eclipse Rich Client Platform and Linux
First Thoughts on Eclipse Platform
This week I have been part of a team working on an Eclipse Platform application to be launched from JNLP, or Java WebStart, as it is better known. We are using Eclipse 3.0. Problems My complaints are as follows: build.xml is being deleted Whenever I build my project from the Eclipse IDE it deletes my… Continue reading First Thoughts on Eclipse Platform