Liberate your data

Liberate your data.

losing my marbles

Things I forgot today on the consulting gig:
1) Headache medication
2) Coat. And yes, it's freezing in Wisconsin.
3) credentials for accessing critical systems. Stupid. Must collate these into a notebook instead of allowing them to proliferate on scraps of paper.

apply your release tag to the correct branch

Note to self: When applying the rel-2-5-2-RC1 CVS tag, e.g., be sure to apply it to the correct CVS branch rel-2-5-patches, e.g., and not to HEAD.

This manual page explains how to recover when I do goof this up.

Firefox 1.5

I just upgraded to Firefox 1.5. Maybe what's coolest is that I didn't notice any differences.

Eclipse eclipse.ini settings

This blog notes that it's important to increase the permanent generation size in Eclipse 3.1. Did so today to good effect, my eclipse.ini on the Latitude now reads:

-vm
C:\jdk1.5.0_05\jre\bin\javaw.exe
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m