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There is this bug filed against Eclipse: #319514

Photo by James JordanAt first it looks like a stupid thing for Eclipse to look at a property defined in the java.exe file to determine the vendor. A lot of people are currently complaining that Eclipse should use the java.vendor and java.vm.vendor properties available from within the running JVM.

But, wait a second: once the JVM is already running, it’s no longer possible to set the necessary MaxPermSize start-up parameter to the JVM. So, in order to identify to JVM vendor there are only the java.exe properties left. This brings it down to a typical chicken-or-egg problem.

For *nix installations of Eclipse this has no impact because all start-up parameters are read from a single eclipse.ini file, regardless of the type of JVM used.

On Sunday, August 22nd 2010 there will be a outage of the mailsystem from 13:00 to 17:00. The reason is the installation of a new SMTP system. I ‘am migrating from Courier-MTA to Exim4, ultimately bringing some new features to the mail system like Sieve, greylisting and two-stage-spamassassin-checks.

Downtime is intended to be kept at a minimum and retrieval of mails through IMAP/Webmail will be unaffected. Incoming and outgoing mails will be delayed though.

Some pictures of me taking a flight in a gyrocopter near Weiz/Austria.

Behold the hilarious result of my latest attempt to install Windows7 x86_64:

It’s clearly superior to Vista!