Have you experienced a sudden power loss or some other situation which has closed the Eclipse IDE unexpectedly? Most likely you've then got this error message:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.eclipse.jface.preference.PrefecenceConverter

the next time you tried to launch Eclipse.

After installing Ubuntu one of the first issues I find is the Unity interface, I don't like it for a Laptop / Desktop... perhaps a mobile device will be a good option? Until I have the chance to try it then I'll be able to tell.

In the meantime I've always liked simplicity without loosing beauty, first using Enlightenment, then a very customized form of xfce and finally in the last 2 years Cinnamon.

Once in a while, for those of us that like to play and test new Linux distro releases, update or customize system behaviour, we found ourselves in a situation that the partition table has been modified, some script did not finish or clean up properly and then you end up with a device which you can't access data from.

It's been a while since the last update, many personal and work related changes kept me really busy the lat months. More interesting content related to development and system administration will continue to flow on this website soon.

Regards,

-Urivan

I decided to upgrade the printer in home and got  a Brother MFC-9970CDW multifunction laser color printer, these are the instructions I had to follow to enable the printer on my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop.

Recently I bought a 2TB external HDD that I'm planning on using as backup and family media storage (photos, videos, etc). The very first thing I noticed after connecting the drive on the USB port was the fact that the Linux system identified the partition as NTFS/HPFS/extFAT. This might suffice those who plan to move around the external hard drives between different system but for me this is not a concern,

Prior to the reelection, Obama's administration worked on developing explicit rules for targeted strikes conducted by UAVs, in case Obama didn't win the new president will have a clear standard and procedures guide.

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While I've gone through the steps of installing the Android SDK in multiple systems (Linux & Windows) as part of my daily job, I've found that those who are new to the Android world might found themselves in a sea of links and options to follow. This article describes a simple list for what to install and configure to setup your Android SDK environment.

I had a previous setup instance of Gitorious running in http (port 80), everything was working just fine. one day I decided to enable https (443) and permanently disable http (80).  The certificates were created, apache was configured accordingly and everything was working fine... or so I thought...

Last Sunday I had the joy to meet two friends from middle school, it was a great pleasure to get to see them and their families. We had fun conversations and many stories to remember. The time went by so fast that we agreed to have a second reunion to compensate.

Looking forward to our next meeting Sheila and Lucio!