Self-interest February 2012

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RE: [self-interest] Experimental VM manager for OS X to try
by Rob Grainger 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Self Centre shurely

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Experimental VM manager for OS X to try
by Russell Allen 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Hi guys, As I mentioned before I have been thinking about how to make the current VM experience on Macs (with the droplet, complex installer etc) better. I've uploaded a first think of a better way to http://selflanguage.org/files/releases/4.5/experimental/SelfVM-23Feb12.zip If you download the zip file onto your mac and unzip, you will get an app called "Self". Double click it to start, then you can start snapshots either by dragging them onto the icon, or by using the Open file menu or the run snapshot button. It should keep track of what snapshots are running. Also under the file menu is an option to install the command line vm at /usr/bin/Self You will need your password to do this. There are many more possibilities I think with this approach. This is experimental code which hasn't been tested outside my laptop, so I'd love feedback from anyone who wants to try it. Cheers, Russell

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Refreshing a garbled GUI screen
by Duke Normandin 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

I'm re-visiting Self4.4, but this time on my Ubuntu box. using the Demo snapshot. I'n having problems with garbled screens everytime I move around the screen. Is there a way to "refresh" the screen when in the GUI? -- Duke

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Problem installing Self 4.4 on Snow Leopard
by sxyzh2 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Dear All Two colleagues and myself are getting the same problem installing Self 4.4 on Snow Leopard (in my case 10.6.8). Any tips gratefully received. 1. The Mac OSX Self-4.4.pkg installer runs apparently OK. 2. The Self VM and Droplet are duly installed in /Library/Self/0/ 3. However, there is no sign of the shell script in /usr/bin/Self. 4. By using su (administrative permission is not enough) one can copy Clean-4.4.snap to /Library/Self/0/SelfDroplet.app and mark it as executable like so. bash-3.2# cd SelfDroplet.app bash-3.2# ls -al total 8992 drwxr-xr-x 4 admin 501 136 14 Feb 18:18 . drwx------ 4 admin wheel 136 9 Feb 23:19 .. -rw-r--r--@ 1 root 501 4600436 14 Feb 18:18 Clean-4.4.snap drwxr-xr-x 6 admin 501 204 14 Feb 17:32 Contents bash-3.2# chmod u+x Clean-4.4.snap bash-3.2# ls -al total 8992 drwxr-xr-x 4 admin 501 136 14 Feb 18:18 . drwx------ 4 admin wheel 136 9 Feb 23:19 .. -rwxr--r--@ 1 root 501 4600436 14 Feb 18:18 Clean-4.4.snap drwxr-xr-x 6 admin 501 204 14 Feb 17:32 Contents bash-3.2# 5. After which the command open Clean-4.4.snap causes an OS X dialog box to appear which says something like "are you sure you want to run this application downloaded from the internet?" But then the launch fails with error 10810 in the terminal window. 6.Tried numerous other things but nothing works. Any tips gratefully received. Many thanks

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Self-interest February 2012