Check out the chat esp if you have a Mac

[jobberone]

Hey all. Running a Mac with Mountain Lion and the latest greatest Java for chat. I'm running real slow basically can't use it. I'm ok on a Windows. I did have to have both 32 and 64 bit Java for Windows. I don't know enough about a Mac to know if they have a 32 or 64 bit Java for Mac though.

Can some of you Mac users check out the chat and let me know if you're having problems. If anyone can fix my problem I'd be grateful. Thanks.

PS: Mountain Lion version 10.8.1, build 12819

 

[Meat-O-Rama]

Go to Applications, then Utilities, then click on Terminal

Type in: java -version <enter>

Copy/Paste the results here.

 

[jobberone]

java version "1.6.0_33"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_33-b03-424-11M3720)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.8-b03-424, mixed mode)

 

[YosemiteSam]

Okay, then type [deleted] in that same terminal.

All fixed! :

 

[jobberone]

Okay, then type [deleted] in that same terminal.

All fixed! :

Couldn't tell if you were kidding or not so I ran it. Thanks a lot.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Couldn't tell if you were kidding or not so I ran it. Thanks a lot.

Ha! Lies!

 

[jobberone]

Ha! Lies!

No I ran it. I hope it didn't do anything to my computer.

 

[YosemiteSam]

No I ran it. I hope it didn't do anything to my computer.

I hope you didn't. If so, I hope you weren't superuser. If it's still booted up, better checkout timemachine or whatever that backup utility is called.

 

[jobberone]

I hope you didn't. If so, I hope you weren't superuser. If it's still booted up, better checkout timemachine or whatever that backup utility is called.

Sam what did you do to me? Yes its still booted. What the heck do I need to do?

 

[YosemiteSam]

Sam what did you do to me? Yes its still booted. What the heck do I need to do?

What did it say when you typed that? [deleted] and / means do it from the root directory.

So, if it actually had worked, you surely wouldn't still be functioning as the OS would be gone. The question is, did it do any damage. Which is why I asked what it said after you typed that.

 

[jobberone]

What did it say when you typed that? "rm" is delete. -rf is "remove force" and / means do it from the root directory.

So, if it actually had worked, you surely wouldn't still be functioning as the OS would be gone. The question is, did it do any damage. Which is why I asked what it said after you typed that.

I'm going to kill you, Sam. Then I'm really going to hurt you. Then I'm going to ban you....from the internet.

Most of it was permission denied. Can I get a log of it?

 

[YosemiteSam]

I'm going to kill you, Sam. Then I'm really going to hurt you. Then I'm going to ban you....from the internet.

Most of it was permission denied. Can I get a log of it?

Wow, I didn't think you would actually do that. Man, I apologize if you did lose something...

First things first. Don't "do" anything yet. If a file is deleted and it can be recovered without restoring a backup, you don't want to overwrite the space it was originally written too.

The only files that would have been deleted would be personal files that your normal account would have access to delete.

So, if you stored some files in a home directory or something. Go look and see if they are still there. (documents, images, etc)

 

[YosemiteSam]

If something is missing. Do you make backups using Time Machine? If not, I suggest you start making regular backups.

 

[jobberone]

I can't see where anything is missing. I have two backups from today, all my music, documents, taxes, applications and photos. I'll let you know if there are any problems.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I can't see where anything is missing. I have two backups from today, all my music, documents, taxes, applications and photos. I'll let you know if there are any problems.

Man, I hope everything is okay. I feel terrible about that. :/

 

[jobberone]

Man, I hope everything is okay. I feel terrible about that. :/

Well, don't feel terrible.....yet. You will be the first to know if something goes wrong. : I'll be out for awhile. Cya later.

 

[ethiostar]

Man, I hope everything is okay. I feel terrible about that. :/

I know you don't like Apple and everything but this is ridiculous. You don't have to take it out on Jobberone.

 

[kmd24]

It's generally a bad idea to enter commands at a command line unless you know what they will do. In Unix/Linux (or Mac by extension since it's based on BSD Unix) you can usually find out what a command does by entering "man <command>" at the command prompt. Ironically, following that instruction would contradict my first sentence.

"man rm" would produce a man page along the lines of:

RM(1) BSD General Commands Manual RM(1)

NAME
rm, unlink -- remove directory entries

SYNOPSIS
rm [-dfiPRrvW] file ...
unlink file

DESCRIPTION
The rm utility attempts to remove the non-directory type files specified on the command line. If the permissions of the file do not permit writing, and
the standard input device is a terminal, the user is prompted (on the standard error output) for confirmation.

I'm sure Sam feels bad about what might have happened, and I'm not trying to beat up on him. As a general rule, if you instruct someone (even facetiously) to enter a command that can possibly cause irreversible damage (loss of files that weren't backed up in this case), sooner or later some poor soul is going to come along and enter that command, even if the person you facetiously instruct doesn't do it.

A mod or admin should delete post 4 from this thread.

 

[YosemiteSam]

A mod or admin should delete post 4 from this thread.

rm -rf http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4692054&postcount=4

 

[trickblue]

rm -rf http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4692054&postcount=4

I did it JUST before he posted that...

Damn, Sam... my dad would have typed that in in a minute...

When I bought him his first pc in '88 (an 8088 12 meagahertz with a 30 meg HD) he was DETERMINED to learn DOS so he went down typing each command to see what it did...

He was stopped at "fdisk" every time... he did it three times... THREE... the pc shop was laughing/crying at the same time...

They told him after the third time that they would charge him next time... my poor dad... :laugh2: