the empty quarter

Recently it’s happened a few times that the splash image, normally only shown while Eclipse is being loaded, remains visible even after Eclipse is fully loaded (using Eclipse 3.2.2 on Ubuntu 9.04). Even though it is only a minor annoyance since the splash can be closed from the Window List (aka task bar), I prefer […]

Unfortunately the default memory settings for Eclipse are not sufficient to run BIRT properly on Ubuntu. Editing BIRT reports was fine on my machine, but the preview always crashed or froze Eclipse. When run from the command line, errors like these came up: Exception in thread “SocketListener0-0” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space Exception in thread “SocketListener0-1” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: […]