When running Starteam 2008R2 Universal Client with OS X, the Java implementation included with the OS will not allow the application to run. It will give an error stating “Can’t adjust composition mode on Mac OS X”.

To get around this, I used SoyLatte, a port of BSD Java onto OS X. I used the 64bit Intel binary for 10.5. This worked for me with 10.6,

Grab the binary and expand contents. Then move the contents to a new directory. I used /usr/local/soylatte.

Next, run the setup in starteam universal client.

./setup

You will be asked for the location to the Java directory. Do not use the default install, rather use the soylatte. /usr/local/soylatte.

Now run the app.

./starteam

This works on my MacBook Core2Duo. Earlier today I tried this on a PPC MacBook Pro with 10.5. It did not work, yet I think this had more to do with the Java build. The only PPC binary I saw when quickly browsing the main page was for OpenJDK 7 Beta.

I am working on a few certifications (Linux, OS X, etc) currently. Between that, full time school and full time work… Little time to update the site.

So just thought I would make a post so I have a current month on here. :)

I am liking the new company so far, and its a great place to work. I would mention the name, but I am not allowed to. Blogging policy and all. The biggest thing I have learned in 1 week so far? How little I really know, its humbling. Having knowledge of technology and having real world experiences getting said technology to function in the work place are two completely different things. I have a lot to learn, and that’s exciting. Scary at the same time though.

I have been really busy the last 2 months going through the intense process of getting hired at a high tech company which I do not want to mention. (I do not like to associate my real life with my virtual life) The process was long, grueling, and nerve racking. Yet it payed off with a new position that I am excited about and should be the start of a really great career with the company. To the future!

Interesting piece by Schneier…

In another experiment, subjects completed an online survey where they were asked a series of personal questions, such as “Have you ever tried cocaine?” Half of the subjects completed a frivolous-looking survey — ­”How BAD are U??” — with a picture of a cute devil. The other half completed the same survey with the title “Carnegie Mellon University Survey of Ethical Standards,” complete with a university seal and official privacy assurances. The results showed that people who were reminded about privacy were less likely to reveal personal information than those who were not.

Privacy salience does a lot to explain social networking sites and their attitudes towards privacy. From a business perspective, social networking sites don’t want their members to exercise their privacy rights very much. They want members to be comfortable disclosing a lot of data about themselves.

I have often wondered why users for social networking sites are so willing to divulge personal information. Maybe because they do not think or see any mention of privacy? Maybe its other factors at work too, such as the change in social views on what is privacy, and what constitutes personal information that should be kept private.

The information that users willing give up on social networking sites blows my mind, yet users to not think twice about it. Regardless of whether it may be private or not. So this must also play a factor, it has become acceptable and perhaps the norm to display this information publicly.

The article makes me think about cloud computing and the storing of private and company data in the cloud. While users and companies will desire and expect security and privacy with their data, will the mention of this deter uptake? Even if subconsciously? Now, I would assume that a group will not let this deter them, and rather would expect this mentioning. Yet individuals on the other hand…

I remember all the jokes about Windows having to restart everytime you did anything. Especially with updates…

Lately this seems to be the same deal with my Mac. Today I am installing a Safari update, and guess what… restart! The only time I have to reboot my Linux box is a kernel update. And even that may be a thing of the past. Regardless, pretty lame.

Some good news about Linux and X. From the Moblin blog, a fix for the security hole that requires X to run as root has been fixed. Now X can run as the unprivileged user. The technology called NRX was developed my Intel, Red Hat and others.

So an irritation with my Blackberry Curve has surfaced. The lack of memory. Not only the lack of memory, but the inability of the device to store anything other than media files on the memory card installed.

Whats really ironic about this, is RIM just launched their new app store. Yet the devices they seem to make cant take advantage of this. I really wanted to try this store out, see what it offered and perhaps get some applications for my device. Yet I can since I have no room to install the app store app, let alone more apps! More memory would be nice, the option on where to install data would even be better.

I have MDN in my feed list, yet find myself reading the site less and less. Even before I owned a Mac, I browsed the site to see what was going on with “the other” side of computing.

Now, I am finding it hard to stomach the ridiculous bias and fanboi’sim that exists with the editors. You will be hard pressed to find anything negative about Apple on the site, and when there is an article that paints the company in a negative light, you have the editors adding in comments in the article. Sometimes they are just stupid and wrong, other times outright pathetic and sick.

Take this article…

It’s simply natural selection in a modern age. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a brilliant self-made billionaire. Corner wino Ralph is a drunken self-made ward of the state. One has more means at his disposal to help him legally secure the liver transplant he needs to live than the other. One just has a better shot at living than the other. Some may not like it, considering it somehow “unfair,” but at its core, excluding blind luck, that’s how this world has worked since life began.

Yes, we know: Replace Ralph the welfare wino with little six-year-old doe-eyed orphan Annie who’s liver is failing without ever having processed a drop of wine. It’s very sad, but it’s still natural selection. Today, money is muscle; wealth means strength. And the strong are still the ones who tend to survive.

That’s a pretty sad take. Yet regardless of feelings, I guess I was wrong in my assumption of MDN being a news site rather than a propaganda machine. There have been some past articles that I would like to mention, yet I don’t want to search through all the articles to find them. And luckily these articles only dealt with technology rather than social issues.

Starting today I am done reading the site. And I hope anyone else who reads this site does the same. Perhaps they will only care when their ad revenue drops to insignificance. Yet I doubt this since they obviously live on another planet.

So I just wrote about the update to the white MacBook. Well, now the unibodies have been updated. And now I am really upset. This is a pretty substantial upgrade and looks like I missed it by a month or so.  :-(

Apple, let me exchange?