Yesterday a colleague of mine told me about a really interesting blog entry . It is on "Getting things done" (GTD), a selfmanagement methodology.
First I thougt "ok, yet another self- and timemanagement method" but today I had enough time to have a closer look to GTD. Now I think I'll try to integrate some of the concepts in my personal planning acitivities just to figure out if the concept helps to make my everyday life more efficient.
Just installed chandler on my xubuntu. Chandler is a free GTD tool that can be used on your desktop as well as via a web interface, too.
By the way: if you experience problems while installing it on your xubuntu machine because chandler is asking for libicu36 - here. it is.
How about you? Do you follow any methodology to manage yourself/your time? What pros and cons did you experience?
Showing posts with label xubuntu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xubuntu. Show all posts
Friday, December 5, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Eclipse SDK 3.4.1 under xubuntu 8.04
Today I wanted to install eclipse on my rather old desktop machine which runs on xubuntu 8.04. First I tried to use the package manager as described here. I did not trust my eyes when I first started it up: Eclipse 3.2! As I need Eclipse 3.4 I removed the just installed old eclipse and downloaded the lastest release of Eclipse SDK directly from eclipse .
After "un-taring" the whole thing into "/opt" with the sudo command I followed the forum thread as mentioned above to use Sun's JDK instead of the built in GNU Java. Everything worked fine until I started the brand new eclipse with my normal working user.... I got the following exception and the workbench didn't come up:
Damn! Another round of googling... . Unfortunately Google only spit out one post - in italian. Luckily with some knowledge of french I figured out that the exception must be a sort of permission problem.
A snippet from this weblog finally solved the permission problem.
Yeah! Now I can start coding... :-) Perhaps this description could help someone who is also struggling with this problem.
After "un-taring" the whole thing into "/opt" with the sudo command I followed the forum thread as mentioned above to use Sun's JDK instead of the built in GNU Java. Everything worked fine until I started the brand new eclipse with my normal working user.... I got the following exception and the workbench didn't come up:
me@mymachine:/opt/eclipse$ ./eclipse
!SESSION 2008-11-08 18:28:24.055 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=M20080911-1700
java.version=1.6.0_07
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=de_DE
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86
!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2008-11-08 18:28:24.525
!MESSAGE Error reading configuration: /opt/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/.manager/.fileTableLock (No such file or directory)
!STACK 0
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/.manager/.fileTableLock (No such file or directory)
at java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Native Method)
at java.io.RandomAccessFile.(RandomAccessFile.java:212)
[....]
Damn! Another round of googling... . Unfortunately Google only spit out one post - in italian. Luckily with some knowledge of french I figured out that the exception must be a sort of permission problem.
A snippet from this weblog finally solved the permission problem.
Before launching eclipse with root user make sure all files in /opt/eclipse are owned by root user:
clebeaupin@atalante:~/tmp$ sudo chown -R root:root /opt/eclipse
Yeah! Now I can start coding... :-) Perhaps this description could help someone who is also struggling with this problem.
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