You know people, it is so wonderful to learn so much. My update has been just fine, too, but look ,what I learned in the meantime as I tried to check all these suggested remedies! Were it not for the efforts of this group to help those with little technical background and know-how, we on the lower rungs of the ladder would still grope in the darkness. Marta On Apr 20, 2005, at 07:33, John Stone wrote:
> 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> > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2559 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050420/f8524d42/attachment.bin
