&*^@#& Eclipse and hanging SystemServerUI on Tiger at Daniel Spisak on Technology

Finally! I have finally figured out what the damn problem was with Eclipse and my Mac! Turns out its a Spotlight bug of all damned things. If you use Spotlight to find Eclipse and then launch it it makes the entire righthand side of the Mac OS X menu bar beachball out and lock up the SystemServerUI thread. However if you launch Exclipse via the Finder or Dock this problem doesn’t happen! Bug is documented here at Eclipse:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=93017

Apparently they have informed Apple of this issue, one hopes this issue gets resolved in 10.4.3 which I suspect will be out on October 12th since thats when the Apple Special Event is taking place up in SF.

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Daniel Spisak was born from the fiery depths of fusion and now roams the pale blue dot known as Earth. I obtained my bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Irvine at the end of 2007.

I am also involved in technology & security consulting firms as well as being a freelance technology writer. I also contribute to Jerry Pournelle's website and Chaos Manor Reviews. Additionally I am also a freelance photographer as well and you can find my photos either on my own personal gallery or up at my Flickr account or on Zivity.

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