Displaying Tag information for the Subversive Client in Elipse

I normally like to see Author, Last modified date information for the projects synchronized with the subversion. Here is the trick to enable this tags for Subversive SVN client in eclipse.

Eclipse –> Properties –> Team –> SVN –> Label Decorations –> Text Decorations –> File –> [Select the necessary options]

Adding NTFS Write support on Mac OS X

I’ve western digital external usb hard drive. Unfortunately Mac OS X doesn’t support writing to NTFS formatted partition due to some legal issues; Although I was surprised by that. But luckily there are opernsource tools available which can be used (at your own risk ) to enable NTFS read-write support. By default it supports writing to FAT/FAT32 partition.

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Google Adds Real Time Results to Search

Just found out that Google has enabled real time search results.

See the attached image:

Google Real Time Search Results Example

Turning off irritating system beep

Turning off that irritating system beep:

Somehow I hate that default system beep on different operating systems, here are quick commands to turn that off

Windows:

net stop beep (in command line)

Linux, Mac OS X:

xset b off (terminal)

Resolved: javac: invalid target release: 1.6

javac: invalid target release: 1.6 :
Recently I ran into this while compiling some stuff through Maven. My development environment is Mac OS X(10.5), Eclipse (3.5), Maven (2.0.9), Java (1.6)
I tried some suggestions through Google but they didn’t help me. Finally resolved the isse. Follow this steps:

• Check if JAVA_HOME is set
• Check if PATH is set & it’s pointing to same Java version
• Now another important thing – Run mvn –version, check if the Java version matches.

(Mac Users)If do this:
Check your CurrentJDK path defined under "/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK".
That is most likely the culprit. Maven script uses this symlink value.

You are hopefully done

Resolved: Eclipse [javac] class file has wrong version 50.0, should be 49.0

[javac] class file has wrong version 50.0, should be 49.0
Somehow on my Mac (10.5) I ran into this issue with Eclipse (3.5) and Nutch (1.0). It seems this was causing because of the incompatible version of Java Compiler.

Solution: Check your project settings & make sure your Java compiler version & installed JRE are pointing to the correct version. By default it points to JRE 1.5. After you update these references everything should work like a charm
~Ruituraj

Should Forced Kill with Kill -9 not a good practice?

Recently came across this article:
http://speculation.org/garrick/kill-9.html
In short kill the processes with INT option, then it would most likely delete any temporary files, shutdown sockets, remove shared memory segments, close open files, or some other task. Killing with -9 option can result in intermittent issues resulting in un-deleted temporary files etc

iTunes 9 introduces Genius for Apps

iTunes 9 introduces Genius for Apps:
Apple today introduced new features with iTunes version 9.0. One of the interesting feature is Genius for iPhone Apps. Similar to music, the new Genius for apps will take a look at your current apps and then go find similar ones.
Article comparing iTunes 8.0 vs iTunes 9.0
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/09/itunes-90-clean.php

Resolved: jvm terminated exit code=-1 Eclipse Galileo Mac OS X

Problem: jvm terminated exit code=-1 Eclipse Galileo Mac OS X
Recently I ran into this issue with Eclipse Galileo on Mac OS X 10.5.5
My environment:
OS: Mac OS X 10.5.5
Eclipse: 3.5
JDK: 1.6
Edit the eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist;
Uncomment the line which points to -vm /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Commands/java. And you are done

How to check if someone has blocked you on Google Talk

How to check if someone has blocked you on Google Talk:
Do you want to know if your ‘friend’ has blocked you?
Try this:
First install Pidgin messenger.

• Follow this steps to setup GTalk on Pidgin
  Setup Pidgin For GTalk.
• Login to Gmail account using Pidgin. Go to: Buddies–> Show –> Offline Buddies. To make sure you have everyone on the list.
• Right click on Contact–> Get Info
• If any information appears for the Contact something like Full Name, Picture etc. then you should be okay. If it’s blank then your ‘Friend’ definitely blocked you & don’t want to chat with you .