Subversive Password Problem

On several instances I've seen subversive in a state where it won't accept user credentials: every remote operation results in a password dialog that won't accept valid credentials. One solution is to clear out the keyring:

http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/~rah67/wordpress/?p=4

If subclipse is setup to use JavaHL (which it is by default: check in Preferences > Team > SVN > SVN interface), then the passwords are stored in the same location as if the command-line svn tool was used. For unix-based systems (or using the command-line tool under cygwin), this is in ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple. On windows it is in c:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\subversion\auth\svn.simple. It looks like there is one file per repository in this directory (the filename is a long hexadecimal number). This file contains your username and password.
On the other hand, if subclipse is configured to use the JavaSVN adapter, the .keyring file mentioned in the post appears to be located in the eclipse directory (not the workspace, the actually directory where the eclipse executable is found) under configuration/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.keyring. This is a binary file and hence must be deleted.

Importing Existing SVN projects to Eclipse

I was having difficulty "importing existing SVN projects" (checked out on command line) into Eclipse/subversive. The problem is

Window >> Preferences >> SVN Connector >> SVN Connector

In my shop it needs to match SVN 1.6

OSX Convert VIDEO_TS to ISO for Burning DVD

hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name MULLER_1991 -o MULLER_1991.iso 1991-DVD/

Delete camera roll photos from Iphone using OSX

Here's one way:

Use Image Capture to download all photos from the iphone.
Be sure to select Options >> Delete all photos from Device.

Processing .tivo Files on mac

1. Connect to tivo over https://. Login = tivo/. Download file.
2. Remove drm using tivodecode command line app.
3. Convert to apply friendly format using Handbrake.

Import Existing Project into Eclipse-Subversive

I like to checkout projects from svn using the command line, and then import the project into eclipse. Recently I tried this with Helios-Subversive and after importing, the project explorer indicated these projects were not 'Team' projects: no revision number or url was displayed next to the project name. The problem was mismatch in versions between svn command line (1.6) and the subversive connector (1.5)

The solution is Window>>Preferences>>Team>>SVN>>SVN Connector

Then select a SVN connector compatible with SVN 1.6.

The Project Explorer immdiately updated to show the SVN connection.

Running vnc on centos 5

I helped a friend set up vnc on centos 5 today. Here's how we did it.

Wrote a shell script to start the vncserver daemon

#!/bin/sh

unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
vncserver -geometry 1000x1000 :1

I needed the unset part on Ubuntu, not sure it's needed on Centos5.

Create a password:

% cd ~/.vnc
% vncpasswd


Edit xstartup

#!/bin/sh

unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
gnome-session &

the last line tells vnc to start the gnome desktop.

Connect with RealVnc, using hostname:5901