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Comment on Running Task asynchronously in Eclipse RCP and JFace by A Developer

A Developer — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:51:26 +0000

This is a great article! It helped me a lot! Cheers

Comment on RMI File Server by eitch

eitch — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:22:05 +0000

Hi, this example is using Java RMI so I can’t help you with c#.

Comment on RMI File Server by zula

zula — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:10:17 +0000

hi how to compile rmi. and how to create an c# on cart play. help me

Comment on VMWare 6 and Ubuntu Hardy: vmmon compile error by Солнце

Солнце — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:14:34 +0000

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Comment on Australia, Day 4 by ken reed

ken reed — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:41:19 +0000

Robert think keeping a record of your holiday by means of a blog a great idea.
Hope you enjoyed the Tasmanian part of your holiday. May you and Iris have a great holiday. Gerards Ken

Comment on Australia, Day 8 by Leana

Leana — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:24:47 +0000

Yes, Robert, watch out for the Australien sun, buy a few extra bottles of suncream!!! so that your vacation does’nt turn out to be a nightmare!!

Comment on VMWare 6 and Ubuntu Hardy: vmmon compile error by Ace Dimitrievski

Ace Dimitrievski — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:08:38 +0000

Hi all,
I was persistent with the errors, tried to install on Ubuntu 9.04 64bit and got a few errors, just look at error, which file and line number and type of error and fix the code. If it says to many arguments in function call just go to the line number and delete the last argument in the function call. If you are persistent to change several source files finally it will work. Just follow the steps below. Change step six depending on the error. BTW to save some time you can skip step 8. You need to have some basic C programming skills but it’s not too hard to do.

1. cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
2. cp vmmon.tar vmmon.tar.orig
3. sudo tar xvf vmmon.tar
4. cd vmmon-only/include/
5. sudo vi vcpuset.h
6. change line 74 from: #include “asm/bitops.h” to: #include “linux/bitops.h”
7. rm vmmon.tar
8. sudo tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only/
9. sudo rm -rf vmmon-only/
10. sudo vmware-config.pl

Comment on VMWare 6 and Ubuntu Hardy: vmmon compile error by Mish Ochu

Mish Ochu — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:48:37 +0000

Very helpful, indeed.

Comment on Creating icons for eclipse applications by eitch

eitch — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:25:09 +0000

I have finally found a solution for creating proper indexed images with only 255 colours and thus being 8bit.

The command line with convert would be as follows for 8bit:
convert -colors 255 -resize 16×16 -type Palette -channel Alpha icon_blue.png icon_blue_16×16_8bit.bmp

and as follows for 32bit:
convert -resize 16×16 -channel Alpha icon_blue.png icon_blue_16×16_32bit.bmp

The option which is important here is the ‘-type Palette’. This tells imagemagick to use a colour palette and the ‘-colors 255′ option says how many.

Comment on VMWare 6 and Ubuntu Hardy: vmmon compile error by larryfrooted

larryfrooted — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:53:25 +0000

Fantastic! I badly needed vmware for dragon naturally speaking as I am disabled and writing a book. The two conditions aren’t the best of chums as typing leaves me in a fair bit of pain after a while. As I really do not have a technical mind at all I thought I was shafted until I came across your kindness and associated fix. I didn’t understand a blessed thing I was typing in – well not much, anyways – but lo and behold. No more dual booting!

Thank you so much. Have some froot.