On Nov 13, 2011, at 8:06 PM, platnicat mewr wrote:

> 
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Bruce Johnson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 13, 2011, at 11:00 AM, JohnCarmonne wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 12, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Charles Lenington wrote:
>> 
>> On 11/11/11 6:01 PM, JohnCarmonne wrote:
>> 
>> I have an iMac 20" 2.0 Core duo that will not run any Java programs. No
>> matter what system I boot from I've tried external backups they work
>> perfectly on my other machines I ran ASD 108 and it passed. AirPort and
>> Ethernet do the same thing. The weather widget comes up blank and my
>> Scottrade streaming Quotes won't work either each time I launch it just does
>> nothing. Every other thing regarding internet communication works fine I've
>> reinstalled till I'm blue in the face. I know it's a machine issue cause the
>> externals do the same thing. Anyone seen this? Can the RAM do this?
>> 
>> 
>> I started on this reply at midnight 12:00 AM PST so as you see I've been
>> chasing this a while:-)
>> This is getting weird here
>> 
>> OS is 10.5.8 and now it's narrowed down to the Weather Applet in Dashboard,
>> 
>> Dashboard applets are JavaScript based NOT Java based. I just looked at the
>> contents of the Weather applet and it is indeed htmpl + javascript.
>> This is not to say you're having isues with Java, but using the Weather
>> Dashboard applet is not a way of testing it. Look at the Weather widget's
>> contents, it's an HTML file and a bunch of javascript source ( .js ) plus a
>> couple plists.
>> Possibly weird DNS issues?
>> To test Java use somethng you know is Java based and not network based, like
>> ImageJ: <http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/>
>> --
>> Bruce Johnson
>> University of Arizona
>> College of Pharmacy
>> Information Technology Group
>> 
>> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

> I'd guess taht the older weather applets use servers that went down today.-- 
> platnicat
> 

 I hope at least I've reached a conclusion to this. I spent a lot of reinstall 
time on a lot of machines :-) From G4 Wallys to the Mac Pro.


John Carmonne
Yorba Linda CA
92886 USA
MacPro 2.66 Quad Nehalem

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