Monday, March 30, 2009

Unhappy OSX User

It seems that we are having some unhappy OSX users.

https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3103567&forum_id=723855

As hard core Windows user, I do not own any OSX to reproduce the problem. Hence, I decide to setup a virtual environment for OSX, by using VMWare player. Just like what I had done to test JStock for Ubuntu Linux, under VMWare player.

Unfortunately, OSX under VMWare player is much more resource intensive than what I am expecting. Moving a mouse pointer, click on the Safari icon, take 1++ minute to launch the browser!!!

After several tries, I decide to give up the idea of perform testing under VMWare. OK, I would like to invite OSX packager to join JStock project, as posted here and here.

Anyone?

14 comments:

Riaan Conradie said...

The jar file work perfectly fine on Leopard. If you are having any trouble just do the following:

To get JStock working on Mac OS X you need to download the latest binary for JStock from SourceForge. To automatically go to the downloads section for JStock on sourceforge click the link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=202896&package_id=241694 and download the latest jstock binary. The current version of JStock is 1.0.4d so I downloaded jstock-1.0.4d-bin.zip. Double click the zip file in Mac OS X to extract the zip file to a folder.

Check your version of java by typing java -version in a terminal. To get a terminal window go to /Applications/Utilities and click on Terminal. If this version is 1.5 or earlier you need to install soylatte because Apple SUCKS at releasing new java versions. There is a Java 6 version available for Mac but only for 64-bit enabled browsers (if you have a 64-bit enabled browser you would only need to go to /Applications/Utilities/Java and load the Java Preferences. Then you just change the Java version to Java SE 6 and drag the Java SE 6 to the top of the Java Application runtime settings). For us that only have 32-bit enabled browsers we should do the following: Download soylatte from http://hg.bikemonkey.org/archive/javasrc_1_6_jrl_darwin/soylatte16-i386-1.0.2.tar.bz2. Use username: "jrl" and password: "I am a Licensee in good standing" - all without quotes. Click the following two links to get help on installing soylatte:
http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2008/02/26/installing-the-jdk-16-on-mac-os-x/ and
http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2009/03/17/installing-the-jdk-16-on-mac-os-x-the-video/ (This is a good time to thank Robert Dempsey for this excellent explanation!).

Then, open a terminal window (as described above) and type java -jar "the path to and name of the jstock.jar file" (i.e. I had to type java -jar /Users/Riaan/Downloads/jstock/jstock.jar as the jstock.jar file is located in /Users/Riaan/Downloads/jstock/ on my mac). Et voila! Give jstock a little time to load and then you are ready to trade!

By the way, Yan Cheng et al., thank you very much for a brilliant piece of open source software! Much appreciated. The only thing missing though is to get the data of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) downloaded to jstock (nudge nudge wink wink) ... :)

Anonymous said...

cheapest viagra buy viagra now effect of viagra on women non prescription viagra viagra liver damage buy viagra online uk cialis viagra viagra larger forever cheap viagra walmart free sample prescription for viagra how long does viagra last recreational viagra use viagra stories legal viagra

Anonymous said...

http://blogginggym.com/user/view.php?id=5574
http://www.pstanley.net/moodle/user/view.php?id=963
http://ako.net.nz/lms/user/view.php?id=4028
http://ako.net.nz/lms/user/view.php?id=4029
http://www.drama-education.com/site/user/view.php?id=7901
http://et.ladniak.pl/user/view.php?id=2007
http://educationorb.com/dias/user/view.php?id=3892
http://cfvalongo.esb.ucp.pt/moodle/user/view.php?id=16297
http://www.drama-education.com/site/user/view.php?id=7902
http://www.pstanley.net/moodle/user/view.php?id=962
http://educationorb.com/dias/user/view.php?id=3893
http://schoolsense.co.uk/user/view.php?id=2168
http://schoolsense.co.uk/user/view.php?id=2169
http://educationorb.com/dias/user/view.php?id=3891
http://et.ladniak.pl/user/view.php?id=2006

Anonymous said...

car wash supply
the history of the car
collector car auction
mini car museum
car gps portable
the duggers clown car
car rental and logan international airport
allen race cars

Anonymous said...

http://wpacouncil.org/user/41575
rc race cars cheap
cars movie mader
car hire weston super mare
car stereo with inunput
car rental shorewood wi
macks used car lot
python car alarm maxima
replacing car door handle springs

Anonymous said...

religious car clips
motormite help car parts
car physics programming
car parking at telstra stadium
stock car driving lessons
transport cars overseas
elec cars
car sale school

Anonymous said...

ads on car
car washes in edmonton alberta
remot car starter
car polishing products
umaine car accident fort kent
craigs list used cars inexpensive
reposessed car
okc cars for sale
csonka car fresh
club car cowl

Anonymous said...

modiferz car club
luxury car donation
sony car cd players
toyota to 20 cars
sextons car audio reading
pics of cars girls marijuana
uk car fastest acceleration

Anonymous said...

car collectibles
fatest car 2007
greenville car accident attorney
honda car company
how do you open a car hood keys locked in car
mississippi car accident
discount car audio speakers
me electric car plans
buying a used car in british columbia
fastest electric rc car motor

Anonymous said...

special olympics car donation
dogging car stories
online car stereo coupon
custom car interior parts
tyrell 6 wheel race car
kazakhstan car dvd players
broker car discount insurance
printers car office

Anonymous said...

car theft return to scene statistics
sextons car audio
southern california car donation
mercedes car 125 spare parts
nascar 2005 car setups
ward car
old car donation
cost of 6 months car tax

Anonymous said...

car auto accessories
mother waddles car donation
car air horn compressor
fastest uk cars
bml car specification
rental car adelaide australia
car stereo theft return to scene statistics

Anonymous said...

My friend and I were recently talking about how technology has become so integrated in our day to day lives. Reading this post makes me think back to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.


I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as memory gets less expensive, the possibility of copying our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could see in my lifetime.


(Posted on Nintendo DS running [url=http://kwstar88.livejournal.com/491.html]R4[/url] DS NetSurf)

ahmedhamdy said...

شركة نقل عفش بجدة
شركة نقل عفش بمكة
شركة نقل عفش بالباحة
واحة الخليج لخدمات نقل العفش بجدة ومكة

Followers