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Archive for December, 2006

Cool interview with Boy Genius

12 Dec 2006

Boy Genius is talking about future Blackberry devices and other interesting stuff. Before reading this interview I could not wait for the next generation of Blackberry devices – the 88xx series. Now that BG is talking about the 99xx series and calls it RIM’s perfect device I wish I could turn the wheel of time [...]

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Memory problems with Eclipse

In: Eclipse|Java

11 Dec 2006

If you are experiencing OutOfMemory Exceptions while working with Eclipse it could be because your Java VM has run out of PermGenSpace. This occurred with Sun JDK 1.5.0_06 an Eclipse 3.2 using many plugins very often. To avoid this you may add -XX:MaxPermSize=128m as VM argument when starting Eclipse or add this argument to your [...]

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What file system to use

In: Linux

10 Dec 2006

Currently I have a dual boot system on my workstation. A Windows XP installed four years ago and a freshly installed Ubuntu Edgy Eft. My PC is an Athlon XP 2600+ which is not really up to date. So I am using Ubuntu for working because it is faster – no virus scanner needed There [...]

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Awesome line rider vids

In: General

8 Dec 2006

Check out this cool vid of a “line rider” my brother showed me today: Updated: This blog has more line rider vids …

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Blackberry 8800 time schedule

In: Blackberry

7 Dec 2006

There are many blogs writing about the released time schedule for the new Blackberry 8800 devices “Crimson”. Seems like the one without the camera will be released in mid January next year and the second one will follow in April. I am already thinking about switching