Problems with ACD 20"

On July 21 I bought a 20" ACD from our local apple store, I got it home and hooked it up to find multiple stuck + dead pixels as well as a pink hue on the right side of the screen and a cyan hue on the left with a blue vertical band running down the screen left of center. I took it back and they exchanged it, I got home, hooked it up and this one had the exact same thing minus all the dead / stuck pixels. I took it back and they exchanged it, I got home and this 3rd one had the exact same thing minus the dead / stuck pixels. I took it back and they gave me a refund.
Today I went to an authorized apple reseller here and bought a 20" ACD hoping it came from a different batch, I got it home hooked it up and this one had the same thing except the vertical band was 3 times wider and right of center, plus the screen was crooked. I took that one back 20 minutes ago and they opened a new one for me to inspect before exchanging it and this one had the same problems. They seen the problems and refunded my money.
What is apples problem with quality control? Are they too focused on secondary products like the ipod and iphone? It seems their quality control with respect to displays is really horrible lately. All the gas and time spent on trying to get something decent from apple has been a real pain.
Message was edited by: Mayor Mc. Cheese

All of the ones I bought and had to return looked exactly like the problems described on this page:
http://www.dreamlight.com/insights/bugs/hd23.html
It's like the problems the 23" displays had except it was on all of the 20" displays I attempted to purchase over that period of one week. Every single one had horrible blue(ish) vertical band(s) either just left of center or in the case of two of the last ones I tried left of center AND the entire right side about 5 or 6 inches was also blue. Not to mention every single one of them had bad pink hues in the grays or shadows and it would not calibrate out, if you did try to calibrate the pinkish hue out that only made the blue bands more distinct. I felt bad taking all of those displays back since I honestly wanted one bad enough to make the 20 minute trip each way per monitor to keep trying to get one which worked. Extremely frustrating and VERY disappointing with respect to my loyalty to apple and playing the cinema display lottery... I still love apple but PLEASE work on quality control, I can't speak for everyone but I myself would be more than willing to pay a bit more for something which is held to a higher quality standard. Maybe move production OUT of China and to Europe or the USA? I ended up buying 2 samsung 21.6 inch 216BW displays for $100 less than the one 20" ACD and while the panel isn't a supposedly superior "s-ips" the things BOTH worked right out of the box with no blue bands or pink hues, a slight blue hue was present but that calibrated right out and not a single dead or stuck pixel on either one. I'm not a professional photographer or anything but I can't see a bit of difference between the ACD and the 2 samsungs when looking at a photograph. The gradients are good and colors are excellent.

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We have a problem where our application stops responding after a few days of usage. Things will for fine for a day or two, and then pretty quickly threads will start getting hung up, usually in places where they are allocating memory
We are running WebLogic 8.1 SP2 on Sun JDK 1.4.2_04 on Solaris 8 using the alternate threading model and the -server hotspot vm. We are running pretty much the same code that we had no problems with under WebLogic 6.1 SP4 and Sun JDK 1.3.1.
A thread dump usually shows that some or all of our execute threads are in the state "waiting for monitor entry" even though they are not currently waiting on any java locks. Here is a sample thread from the thread dump (we have ~120 threads so I don't want to post the full dump).
=============================================================================================
"ExecuteThread: '8' for queue: 'itgCrmWarExecutionQueue'" daemon prio=5 tid=0x005941d0 nid=0x2c waiting for monitor entry [c807f000..c807fc28]
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1446)
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1411)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.getRelativeUri(ServletRequestImpl.java:1872)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3492)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2585)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:197)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:170)
=============================================================================================
String.java line 1446 for this jdk allocates a new String object, and all the other threads in this state also are creating new objects or arrays, etc.
We've done a pstack on this process when it's in this state, and the threads that are in the "waiting for monitor entry" that look like they're allocating memory are all waiting on the same lwp_mutex_lock with some allocation method that's calling into the native TwoGenerationCollectorPolicy.mem_allocate_work (see pstack output below for the same thread as in the thread dump above)
=============================================================================================
----------------- lwp# 44 / thread# 44 --------------------
ff31f364 lwp_mutex_lock (e3d70)
fee92384 __1cNObjectMonitorGenter26MpnGThread__v_ (5000, 525c, 5000, 50dc, 4800, 4af0) + 2d8
fee324d4 __1cSObjectSynchronizerKfast_enter6FnGHandle_pnJBasicLock_pnGThread__v_ (c807f65c, c807f7d4, 5941d0, 0, 35d654, fee328ec) + 68
fee32954 __1cQinstanceRefKlassZacquire_pending_list_lock6FpnJBasicLock__v_ (c807f7d4, ff170000, d4680000, 4491d4, fee1bc2c,
0) + 78
fee3167c __1cPVM_GC_OperationNdoit_prologue6M_i_ (c807f7bc, 4400, ff170000, 2d2b8, 4a6268, c807fa18) + 38
fee2e0b0 __1cIVMThreadHexecute6FpnMVM_Operation__v_ (c807f7bc, 963a8, 0, 0, 1, 0) + 90
fed2c2a4 __1cbCTwoGenerationCollectorPolicyRmem_allocate_work6MIii_pnIHeapWord__ (962c0, ff1c29ec, ff1c297c, ff131a26, 4800, 4998) + 160
fed22940 __1cNinstanceKlassRallocate_instance6MpnGThread__pnPinstanceOopDesc__ (ee009020, 5941d0, 15ca581, 3647f0, 4a6268, c807f8c8) + 180
fed34928 __1cLOptoRuntimeFnew_C6FpnMklassOopDesc_pnKJavaThread__v_ (ee009018, 5941d0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 28
fa435a58 ???????? (ee009018, e86de, 15ca4de, 50dc, 5941d0, c807f9c8)
fb36f9a4 ???????? (0, d412ccd8, ee046c28, ff170000, 0, 0)
fad8b278 ???????? (ee046c28, d6000c90, ee046530, 8, db8e8450, c807f9e8)
fad62abc ???????? (d412ccd8, ee046530, d6000c90, ee3bfa38, 8, c807fa18)
fa4b3c38 ???????? (c807fb9c, 0, f2134700, fa415e50, 8, c807faa8)
fa40010c ???????? (c807fc28, c807fe90, a, ee9e1e20, 4, c807fb40)
fed5d48c __1cJJavaCallsLcall_helper6FpnJJavaValue_pnMmethodHandle_pnRJavaCallArguments_pnGThread__v_ (c807fe88, c807fcf0, c807fda8, 5941d0, 5941d0, c807fd00) + 27c
fee4b784 __1cJJavaCallsMcall_virtual6FpnJJavaValue_nLKlassHandle_nMsymbolHandle_4pnRJavaCallArguments_pnGThread__v_ (ff170000, 594778, c807fd9c, c807fd98, c807fda8, 5941d0) + 164
fee5e8dc __1cJJavaCallsMcall_virtual6FpnJJavaValue_nGHandle_nLKlassHandle_nMsymbolHandle_5pnGThread__v_ (c807fe88, c807fe84, c807fe7c, c807fe74, c807fe6c, 5941d0) + 6c
fee6fc74 __1cMthread_entry6FpnKJavaThread_pnGThread__v_ (5941d0, 5941d0, 838588, 594778, 306d10, fee69254) + 128
fee6927c __1cKJavaThreadDrun6M_v_ (5941d0, 2c, 40, 0, 40, 0) + 284
fee6575c _start   (5941d0, fa1a1600, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 134
ff3758c0 lwpstart (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
=============================================================================================
Also when it's having this problem, the "VM Thread" is always using a lot of processor time. We did a couple of pstacks today while it was having this problem, and this thread was stuck in the ONMethodSweeper.sweep for over 15 minutes when we finally killed the server.
From the thread dump:
"VM Thread" prio=5 tid=0x000e2d20 nid=0x2 runnable
From the first pstack:
=============================================================================================
----------------- lwp# 2 / thread# 2 --------------------
fed40c04 __1cXvirtual_call_RelocationIparse_ic6FrpnICodeBlob_rpC5rppnHoopDesc_pi_nNRelocIterator__ (42a2f4, fa5fa46d, ffffffff, fc4ffcb8, 42a2f4, 42a324) + 124
fed46318 __1cKCompiledIC2t5B6MpnKRelocation__v_ (42a2f0, fc4ffd24, fc4ffd4c, e802, 0, 6) + 38
fed90c38 __1cHnmethodVcleanup_inline_caches6M_v_ (fa5f7f88, fa608940, 1, 0, fa400000, 6) + 1ac
fede18b4 __1cONMethodSweeperFsweep6F_v_ (2cf38, 0, ffffffff, ff1cf1fc, ff1c66e8, fede1d44) + 1b0
fede1e6c __1cUSafepointSynchronizeFbegin6F_v_ (2cf38, ff1ba138, 5000, 50dc, 5000, 525c) + 248
feef1fd4 __1cIVMThreadEloop6M_v_ (4400, 4000, 4324, 4000, 42b0, 3800) + 3d4
feef1ae4 __1cIVMThreadDrun6M_v_ (e2d20, 2, 40, 0, 40, 0) + 8c
fee6575c _start   (e2d20, ff270200, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 134
ff3758c0 lwpstart (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
=============================================================================================
Second pstack
=============================================================================================
----------------- lwp# 2 / thread# 2 --------------------
fed41180 __1cXvirtual_call_RelocationIparse_ic6FrpnICodeBlob_rpC5rppnHoopDesc_pi_nNRelocIterator__ (0, ff1b9664, ffffffff, fc4ffcb8, a6f2cc, fc4ffbd0) + 6a0
fed46318 __1cKCompiledIC2t5B6MpnKRelocation__v_ (a6f2c8, fc4ffd24, fc4ffd4c, e802, 0, 6) + 38
fed90c38 __1cHnmethodVcleanup_inline_caches6M_v_ (faded4c8, fadf2c80, 1, 0, fa400000, 6) + 1ac
fede18b4 __1cONMethodSweeperFsweep6F_v_ (2cf38, 0, ffffffff, ff1cf1fc, ff1c66e8, fede1d44) + 1b0
fede1e6c __1cUSafepointSynchronizeFbegin6F_v_ (2cf38, ff1ba138, 5000, 50dc, 5000, 525c) + 248
feef1fd4 __1cIVMThreadEloop6M_v_ (4400, 4000, 4324, 4000, 42b0, 3800) + 3d4
feef1ae4 __1cIVMThreadDrun6M_v_ (e2d20, 2, 40, 0, 40, 0) + 8c
fee6575c _start   (e2d20, ff270200, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 134
ff3758c0 lwpstart (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
=============================================================================================
Has anyone ever seen anything like this? I'm trying to figure out if this is caused by something we're doing, or something relating to our environment and jvm options. Any ideas?

Thanks for the reply - I'm testing our app with the +UseConcMarkSweepGC now in our test environment to make sure it doesn't cause any problems there. Unfortunately the only place we've had this problem is on the production server, so it's extra difficult debugging this.
We're using the following memory options:
-ms512m -mx512m -XX:NewSize=128m -XX:PermSize=192m -XX:MaxNewSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=192m -XX:SurvivorRatio=8and the following debugging options, as we've also been seeing OutOfMemoryErrors ( see http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=37&thread=522354&tstart=45&trange=15 )
-verbosegc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintHeapAtGCBTW, which c++filt version and options are you using? Our Solaris boxes only seem to have the GNU version installed. I was trying to run that on some of the other stack traces and wasn't getting anywhere, and didn't know if because it was GNU version wouldn't work on something compiled with the Sun compiler.
Thanks!
--Andy

Problem with threads and ProgressMonitor

Dear Friends:
I have a little problem with a thread and a ProgressMonitor. I have a long time process that runs in a thread (the thread is in an separate class). The thread has a ProgressMonitor that works fine and shows the tasks progress.
But I need deactivate the main class(the main class is the user interface) until the thread ends.
I use something like this:
LongTask myTask=new LongTask();
myTask.start();
myTask.join();
Now, the main class waits for the task to end, but the progress monitor don`t works fine: it shows only the dialog but not the progress bar.
What's wrong?

Is the dialog a modal dialog? This can block other UI updates.
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(note: eache thread is in execution using a finite state machine)

i had been running the program inside Netbeans.
Running the jar using the command line outside
Netbeans i have no more problems... Does Netbeans use
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Installation problem with NW'04 SR1: database connection failed

Hi all,
while installing NW '04 SR1 on Windows Server 2003 SP1 and MS SQL Server 2000 SP4 I ran into an error related to the database connection. While performing the step "Load Java Database content" SAPinst crashes with the message
com.sap.sql.log.OpenSQLException: Could not load class com.ddtek.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver.
The connection to the SLQ Server with e.g. the Query Analyzer is OK. I had a problem with this installation setup before (have a look at the corresponding <a href="https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=338638&tstart=0">thread</a> ), the JDBC drivers where missing on the installation master but after copying them in the right direction the installation went on with no problem up to this point...
Has anybody an idea what could have happened here? Is this maybe a problem connected to the one I recently had
Below I attached the sapinst.log and jload.log with more detailed messages.
sapinst.log ###########
INFO 2007-03-12 22:06:24
Working directory changed to C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_~1\ONE_HOST.
INFO 2007-03-12 22:06:24
Output of D:\Java/bin/java.exe '-classpath' './sharedlib/antlr.jar;./sharedlib/exception.jar;./sharedlib/jddi.jar;./sharedlib/jload.jar;./sharedlib/logging.jar;./sharedlib/offlineconfiguration.jar;./sharedlib/opensqlsta.jar;./sharedlib/tc_sec_secstorefs.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\base.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\util.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\sqlserver.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\spy.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jce_export.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jsse.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_smime.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_ssl.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/w3c_http.jar' '-showversion' '-Xmx512m' 'com.sap.inst.jload.Jload' '-sec' 'WPT,jdbc/pool/WPT,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.properties,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.key' '-dataDir' 'S:/D51030724\J2EE_OSINDEP\J2EE-ENG/JDMP' '-job' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/IMPORT.XML' '-log' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log' is written to the logfile C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_~1\ONE_HOST/jload.java.log.
WARNING 2007-03-12 22:06:26
Execution of the command "D:\Java/bin/java.exe '-classpath' './sharedlib/antlr.jar;./sharedlib/exception.jar;./sharedlib/jddi.jar;./sharedlib/jload.jar;./sharedlib/logging.jar;./sharedlib/offlineconfiguration.jar;./sharedlib/opensqlsta.jar;./sharedlib/tc_sec_secstorefs.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\base.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\util.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\sqlserver.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\spy.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jce_export.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jsse.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_smime.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_ssl.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/w3c_http.jar' '-showversion' '-Xmx512m' 'com.sap.inst.jload.Jload' '-sec' 'WPT,jdbc/pool/WPT,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.properties,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.key' '-dataDir' 'S:/D51030724\J2EE_OSINDEP\J2EE-ENG/JDMP' '-job' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/IMPORT.XML' '-log' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log'" finished with return code 1. Output:
java version "1.4.2_13"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_13-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_13-b06, mixed mode)
12.03.2007 22:06:25 com.sap.inst.jload.Jload main
INFO: Jload -sec WPT,jdbc/pool/WPT,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.properties,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.key -dataDir S:/D51030724\J2EE_OSINDEP\J2EE-ENG/JDMP -job C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/IMPORT.XML -log C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log
12.03.2007 22:06:26 com.sap.inst.jload.Jload main
SCHWERWIEGEND: couldn't connect to DB
com.sap.sql.log.OpenSQLException: Could not load class com.ddtek.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver.
ERROR 2007-03-12 22:06:26
CJS-20065 Execution of JLoad tool 'D:\Java/bin/java.exe '-classpath' './sharedlib/antlr.jar;./sharedlib/exception.jar;./sharedlib/jddi.jar;./sharedlib/jload.jar;./sharedlib/logging.jar;./sharedlib/offlineconfiguration.jar;./sharedlib/opensqlsta.jar;./sharedlib/tc_sec_secstorefs.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\base.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\util.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\sqlserver.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\spy.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jce_export.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jsse.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_smime.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_ssl.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/w3c_http.jar' '-showversion' '-Xmx512m' 'com.sap.inst.jload.Jload' '-sec' 'WPT,jdbc/pool/WPT,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.properties,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.key' '-dataDir' 'S:/D51030724\J2EE_OSINDEP\J2EE-ENG/JDMP' '-job' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/IMPORT.XML' '-log' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log'' aborts with returncode 1. Check 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log' and 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.java.log' for more information.
jload.log ###########
12.03.07 22:06 com.sap.inst.jload.Jload main
INFO: Jload -sec WPT,jdbc/pool/WPT,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.properties,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.key -dataDir S:/D51030724\J2EE_OSINDEP\J2EE-ENG/JDMP -job C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/IMPORT.XML -log C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log
12.03.07 22:06 com.sap.inst.jload.Jload main
SEVERE: couldn't connect to DB
com.sap.sql.log.OpenSQLException: Could not load class com.ddtek.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver.
Best regards,
Bernd

Hello Kairat,
Please follow the below mentioned guide to install it.
Check all the parameters to set and run pre requisite checker before starting installation.
Keep in mind that before starting any SAP installation you should always run prerequisite checker.
https://websmp205.sap-ag.de/instguides --> SAP Netweaver -->SAP Netweaver 7.0 -- > Installations --> EHP2
Regards,
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