A Car Too Far

Recently I have been trying to install some plugins on the Eclipse IDE (I was installing the CDT (C++ toolchain)) and ran into some issues. If you have an issue that looks something like this:

Problem Occurred
An error occurred while installing the items
session context was:(profile=PlatformProfile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null –> [R]org.eclipse.ant.ui 3.4.1.v20090901_r351, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.actions.InstallBundleAction).
The artifact file for osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.ant.ui,3.4.1.v20090901_r351 was not found.

… then you probably want to look here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/477944

The short story is that you will want to install pde and jdt extensions first. Thankfully you’re in Linux so you can do it in one command:

sudo apt-get install eclipse-pde eclipse-jd

…bliss

I know there’s been a lot of “stuff” put up here in the last few days but I’m slowly going through my mail box and clearing out all the old emails that have flown back and forward between me and some of the other guys. This one was from Ollie Gee… props bud!

I always seem to come across anti Microsoft snippets (I guess there’s more of them around in the ether than there is of any other company). I’d expect the balance to change a little over coming years as Apple tightens its grip on the user experience but that’s a story for another day.

Anyhow, a little behind the curve on this one, and only worth a click if you’re a bit nerdcore.

How to make windows 7 look really good.

Happy Saturday.

This one is especially for James really. I’ve been storing up a bunch of little posts that I haven’t got around to putting up yet, but I will sooner rather than later. This is one of those ones that makes you snigger a little. One of the chaps over at reddit noticed this little blunder by Evil Corps… (hint, look at the picture, not IE/MS)

As is often sometimes the case, I miss something that happens on the old interweb and in this instance, I’ve been behind the curve on the battle between the iPhone and Droid.  It started in anger when the Droid camp released the following baiting video…

Which appears to have been deftly batted back by the iPhone camp…

Which ever way you look at it, it’s given us something good…. a beautiful song from (the aptely named) Mozella called Magic (Oh Oh Oh)

Maybe it’s something in the air at the moment, or maybe it’s because the darkness is drawing in early but it appears that all that fumbling in the dark has caused a few data “blunders”. Just when you think there’s something pretty bad coming out of the Apple stable (there appears to be a bug in Snow Kitten that just deletes all your data) but Redmond comes bounding back on to the stage, re-affirming it’s position as the bumbling idiots of IT. Oh yes, Microsoft have managed to “almost certainly” loose all the data that customers paid them to look after.

… we (Microsoft) must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost

No official line yet on Apple doing similar, but we’re holding tight for Google.

Whilst I’m in the throws of trying to decide for myself whether or not to plump for a new iPhone when it finally comes onto Vodafone it’s painfull to hear that Windows Mobile 6.5 will arrive soon and it’s likely to suck.

I’ve loved my Windows Smartphones for many years now, mainly because of its fantastic integration with Exchange, but iPhone has that now too so what am I left with in Windows?

Decide amongst yourselves.

Some studies I come aacrossare pretty useless, some are very useful and some are between. This study which shoes that works out that people who own Macs, tend to have more money and buy other stuff too. I think the comments explain most of the sentient points and for once, it hasn’t dissolved completely (yet) into a “mac/pc is better than pc/mac”.

Large income households buy more stuff, which includes possibly a Mac. “Mac users have more money” is not necessarily true.

… quackadilly (in the comments)

amen.

Just a mere 100Mb to update from 9.0 to 9.0.1

I like a good old fashion update as much as the next man, so, seeing as I just upgraded my iTunes install a few days ago to the new 9.0 I was over the moon to open iTunes today and find it was offering me the fantastic 9.0.1 release for a mere 100Mb download! Cripes I could hardly contain my excitement so I rushed straight down to the bandwidth store and and bought me another bundle of good ‘ol 1’s and 0’s. Things arn’t the same as the good ‘ol days though when I was, by default, given the option to “update” my iTunes installation to Safari and Mobile Me(?!). Oh well, at least they’re still kind enough to overwrite my current installation of iTunes, forcefully add new start menu options and ruin the shortcuts I had made for it. I’m so glad that, when I was dangerously straying towards the notion of being able to customise my own computer, Apple so thoughtfully kicked me back onto the path of the righteous and reminded me that I should be doing things exactly how they want.
I mean honestly.