Re: [freenet-support] I dont know if the other went through

2009-09-17 Thread Ancoron Luciferis
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Evan Daniel wrote:
 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Matthew Toseland
 t...@amphibian.dyndns.org wrote:
 On Monday 14 September 2009 16:46:38 adam rush wrote:
 hey,
 my name is adam and i believe in what you all are trying to
 accomplish but there is some major things i ran into when i tried using ur
 product. One thing i noticed was when i tried running it, it kept telling me
 i needed java which i updated to the max. why it kept telling me i needed to
 update it i have no idea. maybe you all can tell me why it still wouldnt
 work even after i updated. my second concern is that its a little
 complicated and throws alot at you when ur just a normal joe such as myself
 when you first start up. when i started running the program it started
 giving me all these messeges like im not running the right plug-ins right or
 something along those lines. i didnt know what it was talking about or how
 to fix um so me (bieng the average joe) would get frustrated and quit using
 the program (like i did).

 heres my idea,

 what if you guys didnt make it a web browser based program, like
 frostwire, and gave it its own browser. a seprate browser only associated to
 the program so it can be watched by the program. and the downloading client
 would be much more like frostwire so were not trying to figure it out all
 the time and we can enjoy your product better. so the program its self is
 like frostwire but the browser is seprate when we wanna start surfing the
 web. and the last thing is make all im gonna need to run the program be in
 the file when im downloading it for the first time. so i have a once a time
 setup then im done! quick and easy.

 tryin to help you out because i believe in what yall are doing,

 adam rush

 The Java problem is well known, enormously serious, and has started to be 
 fixed by various vendors. On Windows, the latest version should not have 
 this problem; on Mac, OS/X 10.6 fixes the problem, 10.5 update 5 will fix it 
 when it eventually is released, on Linux it varies from distro to distro (I 
 think it was recently fixed for Ubuntu). We have disabled the plugins 
 because of this problem. That breaks a lot of things, making it harder to 
 figure it out, but it should be fixed soon.

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 Adam:  Can you tell us what OS and version you're running, what
 version of Java (including what vendor) you think you have installed,
 and what version of Java Freenet reports (copy paste the entire JVM
 Info box from your stats page)?
 
 About the browser comment: do you object to the browser interface to
 the node?  Or is it simply that you dislike having the web interface,
 and also separate programs like Frost?  Would you be happier with it
 if there was one main interface, and that interface was an improved /
 expanded version of the current web interface?  If so, do you have
 specific changes you would like to see to that web interface?  Thanks
 for the feedback!
 
 Toad: Apple has released updates to 10.5.  My 10.5 laptop has
 installed, through the normal software update process, 1.6.0_15 and
 1.5.0_20.  (Freenet seems to default to using 1.5 instead of 1.6, but
 that's a different problem...)
 
 Evan Daniel
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Hint: Java 1.5 is going EOL at October 30th!

So Freenet should at least after that date default to Java 6.
Additionally has the OpenJDK being tested already?

One of the problems Adam talks about is related to the way how the Sun
Java is installed by default on Windows I think. If you just click
through it will create a completely new Installation in a separate
Folder instead of updating the installed one. So if Freenet starts up
the first time before the update it will have the Folder of the old
version (and I bet that folder is just being used after a restart of
Freenet). So if there is a problem related to the Java version supposed
to be used it could make sense to present a dialog to the user
explaining the warning and giving him/her the opportunity to browse for
another Java installation.

Most Linux distros (at least debian-based ones) don't have such problems
because they use symlinks to always point to the latest version of all
installed Java 6, 1.5, 1.4, ... like this:

lrwxrwxrwx /usr/bin/java - /etc/alternatives/java

lrwxrwxrwx /etc/alternatives/java - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

lrwxrwxrwx java-1.5.0-sun - 

Re: [freenet-support] I dont know if the other went through

2009-09-17 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thursday 17 September 2009 07:41:28 Ancoron Luciferis wrote:
 Evan Daniel wrote:
  On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Matthew Toseland
  t...@amphibian.dyndns.org wrote:
  On Monday 14 September 2009 16:46:38 adam rush wrote:
  hey,
  my name is adam and i believe in what you all are trying to
  accomplish but there is some major things i ran into when i tried using ur
  product. One thing i noticed was when i tried running it, it kept telling 
  me
  i needed java which i updated to the max. why it kept telling me i needed 
  to
  update it i have no idea. maybe you all can tell me why it still wouldnt
  work even after i updated. my second concern is that its a little
  complicated and throws alot at you when ur just a normal joe such as 
  myself
  when you first start up. when i started running the program it started
  giving me all these messeges like im not running the right plug-ins right 
  or
  something along those lines. i didnt know what it was talking about or how
  to fix um so me (bieng the average joe) would get frustrated and quit 
  using
  the program (like i did).
 
  heres my idea,
 
  what if you guys didnt make it a web browser based program, 
  like
  frostwire, and gave it its own browser. a seprate browser only associated 
  to
  the program so it can be watched by the program. and the downloading 
  client
  would be much more like frostwire so were not trying to figure it out all
  the time and we can enjoy your product better. so the program its self is
  like frostwire but the browser is seprate when we wanna start surfing the
  web. and the last thing is make all im gonna need to run the program be in
  the file when im downloading it for the first time. so i have a once a 
  time
  setup then im done! quick and easy.
 
  tryin to help you out because i believe in what yall are doing,
 
  adam rush
 
  The Java problem is well known, enormously serious, and has started to be 
  fixed by various vendors. On Windows, the latest version should not have 
  this problem; on Mac, OS/X 10.6 fixes the problem, 10.5 update 5 will fix 
  it when it eventually is released, on Linux it varies from distro to 
  distro (I think it was recently fixed for Ubuntu). We have disabled the 
  plugins because of this problem. That breaks a lot of things, making it 
  harder to figure it out, but it should be fixed soon.
 
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  Adam:  Can you tell us what OS and version you're running, what
  version of Java (including what vendor) you think you have installed,
  and what version of Java Freenet reports (copy paste the entire JVM
  Info box from your stats page)?
 
  About the browser comment: do you object to the browser interface to
  the node?  Or is it simply that you dislike having the web interface,
  and also separate programs like Frost?  Would you be happier with it
  if there was one main interface, and that interface was an improved /
  expanded version of the current web interface?  If so, do you have
  specific changes you would like to see to that web interface?  Thanks
  for the feedback!
 
  Toad: Apple has released updates to 10.5.  My 10.5 laptop has
  installed, through the normal software update process, 1.6.0_15 and
  1.5.0_20.  (Freenet seems to default to using 1.5 instead of 1.6, but
  that's a different problem...)
 
  Evan Daniel
 
 Hint: Java 1.5 is going EOL at October 30th!
 
 So Freenet should at least after that date default to Java 6.
 Additionally has the OpenJDK being tested already?

OpenJDK runs on OS/X?

1.6 is installed by default on Windows, the 1.5 preference seems to be a mac 
wrapper bug.
 
 One of the problems Adam talks about is related to the way how the Sun
 Java is installed by default on Windows I think. If you just click
 through it will create a completely new Installation in a separate
 Folder instead of updating the installed one. So if Freenet starts up
 the first time before the update it will have the Folder of the old
 version (and I bet that folder is just being used after a restart of
 Freenet). So if there is a problem related to the Java version supposed
 to be used it could make sense to present a dialog to the user
 explaining the warning and giving him/her the opportunity to browse for
 another Java installation.

Not our problem, Sun's problem. However one thing it might be is that on 64-bit 
windows we install a 32-bit JVM.
 
 Most Linux distros (at least debian-based ones) don't have such problems
 because they use symlinks to always point to the latest version of all
 installed Java 6, 1.5, 1.4, ... like this:
 
 lrwxrwxrwx /usr/bin/java - /etc/alternatives/java
 
 lrwxrwxrwx /etc/alternatives/java - 

[freenet-support] I dont know if the other went through

2009-09-16 Thread adam rush
hey,
my name is adam and i believe in what you all are trying to
accomplish but there is some major things i ran into when i tried using ur
product. One thing i noticed was when i tried running it, it kept telling me
i needed java which i updated to the max. why it kept telling me i needed to
update it i have no idea. maybe you all can tell me why it still wouldnt
work even after i updated. my second concern is that its a little
complicated and throws alot at you when ur just a normal joe such as myself
when you first start up. when i started running the program it started
giving me all these messeges like im not running the right plug-ins right or
something along those lines. i didnt know what it was talking about or how
to fix um so me (bieng the average joe) would get frustrated and quit using
the program (like i did).

heres my idea,

what if you guys didnt make it a web browser based program, like
frostwire, and gave it its own browser. a seprate browser only associated to
the program so it can be watched by the program. and the downloading client
would be much more like frostwire so were not trying to figure it out all
the time and we can enjoy your product better. so the program its self is
like frostwire but the browser is seprate when we wanna start surfing the
web. and the last thing is make all im gonna need to run the program be in
the file when im downloading it for the first time. so i have a once a time
setup then im done! quick and easy.

tryin to help you out because i believe in what yall are doing,

adam rush
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Re: [freenet-support] I dont know if the other went through

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 14 September 2009 16:46:38 adam rush wrote:
 hey,
 my name is adam and i believe in what you all are trying to
 accomplish but there is some major things i ran into when i tried using ur
 product. One thing i noticed was when i tried running it, it kept telling me
 i needed java which i updated to the max. why it kept telling me i needed to
 update it i have no idea. maybe you all can tell me why it still wouldnt
 work even after i updated. my second concern is that its a little
 complicated and throws alot at you when ur just a normal joe such as myself
 when you first start up. when i started running the program it started
 giving me all these messeges like im not running the right plug-ins right or
 something along those lines. i didnt know what it was talking about or how
 to fix um so me (bieng the average joe) would get frustrated and quit using
 the program (like i did).
 
 heres my idea,
 
 what if you guys didnt make it a web browser based program, like
 frostwire, and gave it its own browser. a seprate browser only associated to
 the program so it can be watched by the program. and the downloading client
 would be much more like frostwire so were not trying to figure it out all
 the time and we can enjoy your product better. so the program its self is
 like frostwire but the browser is seprate when we wanna start surfing the
 web. and the last thing is make all im gonna need to run the program be in
 the file when im downloading it for the first time. so i have a once a time
 setup then im done! quick and easy.
 
 tryin to help you out because i believe in what yall are doing,
 
 adam rush
 
The Java problem is well known, enormously serious, and has started to be fixed 
by various vendors. On Windows, the latest version should not have this 
problem; on Mac, OS/X 10.6 fixes the problem, 10.5 update 5 will fix it when it 
eventually is released, on Linux it varies from distro to distro (I think it 
was recently fixed for Ubuntu). We have disabled the plugins because of this 
problem. That breaks a lot of things, making it harder to figure it out, but 
it should be fixed soon.


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