@ discozone I plan to have a go at getting Eclipse up an running on my pi too! So I'll certainly let you know if I get anywhere. But to be honest, it's not the end of the world not to have Eclipse. Legendary programmer and author of the 'Head First' series Kathy Sierra exclusively uses a text editor...

"Java as a language has no reason to exist" I'm afraid the majority of the population disagree with you, There are surveys on this: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html http://blog.codeeval.com/codeevalblog/2015 http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/top-10-programmi...

Douglas6, I may well be wrong. In general having some random stranger on the net assure me that I am wrong does not actually assure me of anything. Some supporting argument or facts might sway me. "Trust me, I'm an 'architect'" does not. My thesis is that Java's only reason to exist was portability...

You could use xlock.

You'll need two scripts:
lock.sh containing the following:
xlock -nolock -mode blank

unlock.sh containing the follwoing:
#keep the screen blank for 5 seconds
sleep 5
pkill xlock

Now add both lock.sh and unlock.sh to your start-up scripts!

You can edit .bashrc in your home directory. Add two lines:

alias java=/path/to/your/java/binary
alias javac=/path/to/your/javac/binary

Hi, I have a pi2 with Kodi installed. I'd like to have a streaming media service available. I have a few questions: #1 I've heard that Netflix will basically only work by using the 'PlayOn' service. Unfortunately, PlayOn is not available to people in the UK. Is there any way around this? For example...