Hi all--
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Simon writes:
Here's what happened when I tried in firefox...
Cool, I've never heard of that one. :)
...a download dialog, which I ignored because I saw the status bar in the browser moving and it looked like it was downloading.
Yeah, that progress bar is totally fake... It just fills up over the course of a hardwired 90 seconds, to give people something to watch so they don't run off and turn on the TV. :) Most people get past it within 30 seconds if they agree to the security warnings promptly (and are on a broadband connection).
Then I figured out it's just waiting. Firefox doesn't allow me to run the .exe for some reason.
Yeah, most web browsers try to get at least some sort of approval from the user before running arbitrary weird programs. :)
Downloading it to the desktop and running it manually (while the status bar is still moving) didn't work.
That's correct behavior; that snapshot is hardwired to connect to either the Squat release site (to say that it has come up, so that the installer session can redirect the original web browser), or to a control snapshot.
In IE, I clicked open and (I think) the first time got a hello and current time message from squat.
Great! By the way, there have now been 41 successful invocations in total.
Tried it again and it said it was contacting a web server to download modules.
You probably need to kill off the previous invocation of the virtual machine first. I can fix that later.
Jon writes:
- Start the control image. In a command window execute the
following:
headed.exe control.image
I get a rolling walkback in the bottom few lines of the screen after this, starting at #basicNew and then progressing through a lot of stuff that flies by too fast to read. After about half a minute of this, the image goes away, with no error log generated.
Which OS and OS version was this?
By the way, note that there is now an x86 Linux version of the system to try, in the "bits" section of the release page. I'm chasing down some rough edges, more soon.
thanks again!
-C
-- Craig Latta improvisational musical informaticist craig@netjam.org www.netjam.org [|] Proceed for Truth!
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:51:21 -0800, Craig Latta craig@netjam.org wrote:
- Start the control image. In a command window execute the
following:
headed.exe control.image
I get a rolling walkback in the bottom few lines of the screen after this, starting at #basicNew and then progressing through a lot of stuff that flies by too fast to read. After about half a minute of this, the image goes away, with no error log generated.
Which OS and OS version was this?
This is Win XP Home Edition. Latest Updates from MS installed.
I'm assuming I can't run a normal Squeak VM with this image?
Later, Jon
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