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This article describes a solution to fix a long term issue (bug?) involving copy & paste when running Eclipse on KDE. The problem When launching Eclipse from KDE, one might experience several types failures with cut, copy and paste actions in Eclipse. The reported misbehavior is non-deterministic, but frequent enough to degrade user experience. Inside the editor, specially [...]

These days we were implementing a distributed application where processes read startup information from a shared file stored in an NFS directory. Unfortunately, the approach did not work as expected, and we faced strange situations. After all, we learned that polling NFS shared directories can be quite tricky. The original approach Let me explain shortly the [...]

Many IBM applications are based on eclipse for i386 architectures. Just some examples: Lotus Notes, Sametime, Symphony, IES (IBM eclipse SDK). However, the Fedora 9 for x86_64 architectures does not install any 32 bits libraries anymore. How shall these applications now run on Fedora 9? One one side, these applications were designed for Linux on 32 [...]

I have been using xfs for some months now. Somewhere I had read about advantages of xfs and got convinced that I should store my files on that file system (sorry, I don’t remember the references anymore). Today it happened that, suddenly, eclipse complained that all the files I was editing did not exist anymore on [...]

Written by Daniel Felix Ferber (techtavern.wordpress.com) This article explains how to browse your Creative Zen mp3 player from Linux command line, using MTPfs. MTPfs is a fuse file system implementation that wraps libmtp. libmtp is an open source implementation of the MTP (Media Transfer Protocol), intended to transfer for media files from/to players. With MTPfs, you can [...]