Indeed, we have been bitten by this in schools with locked-down  
computers, too. I just submitted this on the squeakland bug tracker:  
http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=3247

- Bert -

Am 05.03.2006 um 00:14 schrieb news.gmane.org:

> Sorry, should have investigated it a bit before throwing my arms up  
> in the air :-).
>
> The plug image on start up is runs FileDirectory class>>#startUp,  
> and that tries to create a directory SecurityManager default  
> untrustedUserDirectory, which is 'C:\My Squeak\Administrator'.  
> Unfortunately my C: drive is not my hard drive, hence the create  
> directory blows up.
>
> I can figure out how to get round it, but I doubt an average squeak  
> plug in user could
>
> Cheers
>
> Dan
>
>
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> Which project? What version of Squeak Browser Plugin?
>> - Bert -
>> Am 04.03.2006 um 23:38 schrieb news.gmane.org:
>>> I tried running it, and got a walk back window :-( Not good!
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> Brian Rice wrote:
>>>> I came across this link on del.icio.us and didn't see it in my  
>>>> archives; it seems NASA's LARC is also using Squeak for  
>>>> educational software (via the SqueakLand plugin):
>>>> http://connect.larc.nasa.gov/squeak.html
>>>> On Jan 23, 2006, at 10:30 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:
>>>>> Read read the nasa is using Squeak for....
>>>>>
>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Ted Shab <tshab at email.arc.nasa.gov>
>>>>>> Date: 23 janvier 2006 18:30:44 HNEC
>>>>>> To: ecoop-info at ecoop.org
>>>>>> Subject: [ecoop-info] MCT Architect at NASA/Ames in Mountain  
>>>>>> View, CA
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A team at NASA Ames Research Center is looking for a system  
>>>>>> architect to help us design, develop, and deploy a component- 
>>>>>> based framework for building NASA mission control systems.  
>>>>>> This project is at a point where they need someone with  
>>>>>> serious chops to help translate the preliminary design and  
>>>>>> prototypes into a state-of-the-art yet practical and  
>>>>>> deployable system. The architect would be joining an up-and- 
>>>>>> running, 10+person team of engineers and designers. The design  
>>>>>> includes elements of user-level composition, model-driven user  
>>>>>> interfaces, dynamic assembly of components according to  
>>>>>> ontology-specified roles, distributed components, etc. etc. We  
>>>>>> are currently building a pilot in Java / Eclipse RCP, and a  
>>>>>> parallel testbed for user-experience exploration in Squeak  
>>>>>> (Smalltalk) (really). The resulting framework will be used by  
>>>>>> the various NASA centers (e.g. Ames, JPL, Johnson Space  
>>>>>> Center, Kennedy Space Center, etc) to build distributed, multi- 
>>>>>> mission systems for planning and executing a variety of NASA  
>>>>>> missions, including robotic (e.g. Mars rovers & deep-space  
>>>>>> probes) and manned (e.g. the new Moon/Mars exploration effort,  
>>>>>> including the Crew Exploration Vehicle currently being designed).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Position is located in Mountain View, California, at NASA/ 
>>>>>> Ames, a NASA research center.  We can work with individuals on  
>>>>>> residency issues.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interested parties should send a resume to  
>>>>>> tshab at mail.arc.nasa.gov
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Ted
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>>>>>
>>>> ---Brian
>>>> http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf
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>>>
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