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Archive for May, 2005

Using Subversion and Eclipse in Windows

Friday, May 27th, 2005

The process of setting up Subversion in Eclipse under Windows is rather convoluted compared to how straighforward it was in linux, which makes me I wonder if I’m not doing something wrong. Nonetheless, here’s how it works for me.

In a nutshell,

Install Subclipse
Install JavaSVN or Subversion command line binaries
Configure SVN in Eclipse
Install Tortoisesvn
Download PuTTY binaries
Set SVN_SSH [...]

Play m4a & mp4 files in xmms

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Xmms has a mp4/aac plugin to play m4a files: apt-get install xmms-mp4

Share Thunderbird email & calendar between linux and windows

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

To share emails and calendar in Thunderbird we need to move the data to a shared vfat partition that can be accessed by both linux and windows. We then copy over prefs.js and modify it under both OS to point to the shared data location.

Here we take the mail data from linux. If you [...]