I did the update on my powerbook and then ran the test off of http://www.techspot.com/story17413.html, and I didn't get the error mesage, and I've been able to surf.
The update seems to be fine on my Mac..... John > On 4/19/05, Bill Rising <brising at louisville.edu> wrote: > > On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:17, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > > > Thanks, I'd noticed people complaining that there were issues but had > > > put it down as a minor thing. Glad I've been too lazy to kick off the > > > update on my laptop, as it's where I do all my Java development :) > > > > Just a guess about the problems (of which I've had zero): I'd guess > > that the problems with this update come from not having done earlier > > updates (like skipping the Java 1.4.2 Update 2 or the 2005-02, which > > also patched Java). So... if I had to make a wild guess, those that > > have done all updates involving Java in the past will have no problems. > > Those who skipped some updates which affected Java get a mess. > > > > Of course, I have no way of testing this hypothesis. > > I suspect the people complaining ran those updates. > > My gut guess is that the new Apple release shipped a bad binary in one > of the files and the previous update allows said binary to be replaced > with the older version. > > Of course we Java people are all desperately waiting for Tiger aka > Java 5.0 (codenamed Tiger as well) on the Mac. OS X 10.4 is just a > boring cost we'll have to pay while we wait for the real Tiger to > appear :). > > Hen > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > -- | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
