Install Mercurial Plugin on Mac OS X and Eclipse

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Development • Tagged with Eclipse, Mercurial

This howto explains you howto install the HgEclipse plugin on MacOS X.

This howto explains you step by step how can install the Mercurial plugin for Eclipse on Mac OS X Systems.

Eclipse should be setup and running.

1. We install Mercurial on your system. You should have the newest …


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How to delete saved passwords in Eclipse

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Development • Tagged with Eclipse

I saved my username and password for subversion repository but I wasn't able to change them.

After some research I found a way to clear all saved passwords and usernames. On Mac OS X just move the ~/.eclipse_keyring away or delete it if you know all your usernames and passwords …


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Eclipse configuration files on Mac OS X

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Eclipse • Tagged with Eclipse

On Linux or Windows you can find the eclipse.ini file in the eclipse directory.
If you now run out of memory with some bigger projects you need to edit the eclipse.ini file to increase the max amount of memory for you eclipse java process.

1. Open Terminal and …


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Handling virtual machine files on Linux

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Virtualization

While i was working with Linux/KVM/Xen i made some notice for daily commands and why do it this way. Maybe someone can use this information for reducing time to wait for finished copy jobs or free unused disk space.

rsync is our friend:

Many of my virtual machines …


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