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Hi Morgan,
enjoy your kid, they are growing soo fast! I have three.
The three best decisions I took in live.

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Is jBidwatcher happy now after eBay made their BIG changes a few months ago involving parsing?

Enjoy fatherhood- I have- six times over!

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Greetings,

First of all congratulations. For being a father soon and for writing that very useful program. In fact jBidwatcher is one of my favourite tools. It has saved me money and I would like to donate some. How does it work?

Thanks! If you want to donate there’s a link on the home page near the bottom of the left side; it just goes through PayPal.

Second, for me, located in germany, jBid watcher stopped working a few month ago. Only auctions that are shipped worldwide can be added to the list… :(.

JBidwatcher 2.0beta10 should fix the international issues. Check it out!

As for printing, you can right-click (or control-click) on the tab name, and select ‘Print’. (You can also export to CSV files from there.)

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

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Hallo Morgan,

first of all congratulations. For being a father soon and for writing that very useful program. In fact jBidwatcher is one of my favourite tools. It has saved me money and I would like to donate some. How does it work?

Second, for me, located in germany, jBid watcher stopped working a few month ago. Only auctions that are shipped worldwide can be added to the list… :(.

I read a what you wrote about the major changes ebay made and that it will be hard to fix the problem. Will there be a version for germany again? Is there any workaround? I really miss JBidWatcher a lot … and also miss all the auction now. :(

One nice feature for 2.0 would be the possibility to print out all passed auctions in a list. At the moment I make snapshots and print them for my statistics…

Thanks again and all te best for you and your family!

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When the tough times come – and there may be more of them for your wife than you, Morgan – we just kept in mind that the most important thing in the world was our baby!

Yes, and each new thing that Corwin does is precious and wonderful, as I’m sure you know.

Our two bq. babies bq. are now 28 and almost 22!
Frank Fitzpatrick

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Greetings,
Yep; Corwin’s our first, and we’re still finding him a joy to watch and be around. There are definitely sucky moments, but they are very few compared to the wonderful ones.

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

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Congratulations, Morgan, to you and your wife.
Is this your first child? If he is, it’s especially an incredibly treasured time for both of you. Although each baby is wonderful in the extreme. My wife and I have two sons.

Whatever my sons do for work or careers I, too, am happy with, as long as they are happy!

Frank F

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Greetings,
Frank: That’s my take. My wife and I are bookworms, geeks, and homebodies. We figure our son will probably grow up to be a football player, or lawyer or something. I was given a gift that allowed me to follow my passions in life; I’ll wish no less on my son, whatever those passions are.

That’s not to say I wouldn’t be thrilled if he finds technology attractive…! :)

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

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..pete, they got their own way …. and it might be exactly what you wouldn’t do.
And that’s all the secret. If we live our own wishes ourselves, our children hopefully can learn to do the same …

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Congratulations from Ireland. I hope he grows up to be a great programmer – I can’t get either of my two interested in writing code, but I wish I’d started young myself.

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Very best of luck to you and your wife. Sleep deprivation really hurts, but hopefully only for six months, and then things will get better… Version 2 beta running fine so far – JBW has been invaluable here

—David

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Congratulations, hope everything goes great! I won’t expect too many updates for the next 3-6 months :)

Lacoste

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Greetings,
No, it means all platforms need Java 1.5, including Mac OS X.

Java 1.5 was released in September of 2004, around three and a half years ago. It’s includes a pretty fundamental change to the language, and I struggled with the decision to upgrade. I’ve held it off until the 2.0 version, but I really can’t support 1.4.x anymore.

If you can find a developer who wants to put together a set of patches or build steps that will use Retroweaver or something like it to build a 1.4-compatible version, I’ll consider it.

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

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..great, always a good sign for Erath when nice people come to grow children :)
Don’t be scared Morgan, it’s one of the best experiences human beings are capable of!
no case known that parents had to die of having no sleep :)
the rest is amazing and joyfull, adventurous and powerfull.
Once you are in it you won’t ever wish to get out.
Congratulations !!

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I just read the news that there will soon be a new member of the Schweers family.
I wish you both and the new born son a good start and many nights of good sleep as well.

Paulh

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Congratulations to both you and your wife, Morgan! My daughter & son-in-law are expecting their first next month also. Better get your sleep now… ;-)

Jim

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Morgan,

Congratulations on the great news for you and your wife. Don’t forget to post photos of the little guy when he arrives.

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Greetings,
Well, everything JBidwatcher stores is located via the Java ‘user.home’ system property.

The most common way to run JBidwatcher out of a USB drive is to write a batch/command file which goes:

java -Duser.home=D:\ -Xmx512m JBidwatcher-{version}.exe

where D:\ is the path to your USB drive. If the USB drive has a different location all the time (probably true), it gets a little harder.

There’s only one place where ‘user.home’ is referenced, so I’ll see if it’s possible to pass a parameter which overrides that to be ‘the current directory’. There’s a bunch of questions in there, as to what will work, and how consistently, but it’s an approach that might work.

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

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wow that was a fast response!
yep, by portable I simply mean run from a USB an not store anything locally or in the registry.
I didnt do a full sweep of the registry but I find jbid’s config file: C:\Documents and Settings\user\.jbidwatcher
If that could be stored in an ini it would be fantastic :)
platform=winXP

Thanks!

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Greetings,
Hmmm… Define ‘portable’? You mean on a USB-drive?

I’ve poked at that problem a few times in the past. I believe it’s possible to set up a portable configuration with the current version, and I don’t believe anything I’ve done in JBidwatcher 2 will change that. (Well, it might on OS X, in retrospect.)

Describe what you want to do with it, and on what platform…?

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

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Will JBidwatcher 2 be portable? please :D

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Congratulations… We are due on March 6 (a girl). Good luck getting your programming done after your son is here!!

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Congratulation!

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I am so happy for you. I truly want a baby myself, if only my wife would agree to it..
Congratulations again. You are a lucky man!

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Congratulations from me…