On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:11 PM, taverna-users- [email protected] wrote:
> By all means when an update comes out, install it. I think what Stian > was getting at is that they can't really do much if Apple decides to > completely break the java vm. I think it Should Just Work(TM) if you > switch your default VM to java SE 6 though. Yes, actually, everyone that I talked to in the process of getting my bricked laptop up and running was very much interested to know what it was that didn't play well with the Java update. At the moment I'm back to pre-Java-update-4 and trying to figure out what I need to do to appropriately address this. Aside from installing a Linux VM... I recall having trouble after a Java update previously, and the intuitive answer with the Java VMs was not the one that worked, for whatever mysterious reason. Eventually things got running again, but I've forgotten everything except the "not working after Java update" bit. > Note that the security vulnerability this update fixed was extremely > critical. From what I've read, even executing a malicious applet on a > website is game-over in this case, so it's not like there isn't a good > reason to update. In a perfect world Apple would run security updates > separate to major functionality changes but it appears they don't. > > regards, > Wim Andrea Wiggins PhD Student, School of Information Studies Syracuse University 337 Hinds Hall Syracuse, NY 13244 [email protected] www.andreawiggins.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ taverna-users mailing list [email protected] [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/taverna-mailing-lists/
