Eclipse Helios crashes with RenderBadPicture on Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04

If you're wondering why Eclipse keeps on crashing when rendering an autocompletion pop-up then see the following bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522635

The workaround for now is to use the XULRunner 1.9.2 shipped with Ubuntu rather than the older version shipped with Eclipse. Do this by using the following:

eclipse -vmargs -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/bin/xulrunner

There's also a workaround involving setting GRE_HOME to a nonsense path, e.g. /tmp.

TGIMBOEJ part 3

Input time. I thought it was a bit light on computing bits and bobs, so added some classic items from my own boxes of junk archives. I put in couple of sample boxes of Maxim ICs, an Athlon 64 processor, a keyboard-powered hub, a regular hub, some interposers, a CF 802.11b card, and a PCMCIA modem.

Siobhan suggested I start a new box, based on the state of my archives, I probably could.