Java

[Zylka]

Is still disabled on my comp. What is going on? I have tried

Tools>
Internet Options>
Security>
Java Permissions:
Low safety

...and it does nothing. Ideas? Hotmail won't load up... webpages don't refresh after various actions, they just sit there - and I can't use all sorts of visual goodies!

Help

[Skanky Burns]

Maybe try reinstalling the java runtime environment.

[Skanky Burns]

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html

Download one under the JRE heading.

[Zylka]

Ironically enough, Java is required for apolyton re-direct. I'll cut and paste the addy for the browser though

[Urban Ranger]

Not for me. I disabled Java on my browser though the redirect works fine.

[Urban Ranger]

Re: F*cking Java

Originally posted by Zylka
...and it does nothing. Ideas? Hotmail won't load up... webpages don't refresh after various actions, they just sit there - and I can't use all sorts of visual goodies!

Help

Hotmail doesn't need Java AFAIK, and neither does webpage refreshing. It's something else.

[Zylka]

Maybe my computer is just self destructing

...and I showed it so much love

[Skanky Burns]

There is only one solution, a complete reformat.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
There is only one solution, a complete reformat.

Aaah, the Etch-a-Sketch method of computer maintenance.

"If something goes wrong you have no option but to destroy everything and start from the beginning."

[pg]

i assume you are using ie. maybe try mozilla(only 11mb)? www.mozilla.org i love it, and it keeps getting better.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
Aaah, the Etch-a-Sketch method of computer maintenance.

"If something goes wrong you have no option but to destroy everything and start from the beginning."

Half the time, that's the only thing that you can do for Wintel boxes. Most of the inner workings is like a big black blob, there is only so much an admin could do.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Be happy. I had to wait to get a version of Java compiled with gcc 3.2 from Blackdown just to get any Java support in Mozilla at all.

[Urban Ranger]

Doesn't Sun have J2SE RTE for download?

[OmniDude]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Half the time, that's the only thing that you can do for Wintel boxes. Most of the inner workings is like a big black blob, there is only so much an admin could do.

With 5 years of tech-supporting and repair on my back, I have to agree. The process involved in isolating most of errors is far too time-consuming.
The support guys where I work now have taken the consequence: If you haven't isolated the error in 15 minutes, reclone the workstation. They maintain about 15 different disk-images and that's it. No software-package distributions, no local software installs, no nothin': To clone or not to clone, THAT is the question...

[Ari Rahikkala]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Doesn't Sun have J2SE RTE for download?

Parse Error: Unknown TLA: "RTE"

(to make a long story short... I've done all sorts of things with Java on my computer except using it for anything senseful myself. I've tried different versions of Blackdown's and Sun's JRE, even downloaded and compiled Java 1.4.1 SDK of one kind or another from Sun at one part (it was one hefty big package, BTW, my HD sounded like a trash compressor taking care of rusk in the linking phase)... but what made the Java plugin work was the Blackdown JRE compiled with gcc 3.2 (not locally))

BTW, yes, I do know the difference between JRE and JDK...

(edit: insufficient zen)