In an earlier “Confessions” post I’d mentioned Angry IP Scanner, a terrific little app that does IP address and port scans. What I didn’t mention, because I didn’t realize it at the time, is that it doesn’t work in Mac OS X 10.5.5 and later (including the current 10.5.6) due to a Java incompatibility. By Googling the Console error messages (always the best way of tracking down a strange problem) I found this post in the Angry IP Scanner section of the SourceForge forum:

In Terminal:
$ cd /Applications/Angry\ IP\ Scanner.app/Contents/MacOS/
$ rm /Applications/Angry\ IP\ Scanner.app/Contents/MacOS/ipscan
$ cp /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Resources/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub ipscan

This worked as advertised and Angry IP Scanner now launches and runs again without error.

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Denis Krieg, whose phone number is (650) 873-3056 and who lives at 420 Milton Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, has tried several times in the past few days to call me. I don’t generally answer calls from unknown or blocked numbers, preferring to let them go to voicemail. Mr Krieg hasn’t seen fit to leave a voicemail. Denis, if you need to get in touch with me, you can email me or leave a voicemail since you obviously have my number.

Some problems trying to get my Windows Mobile device synced with the
Mac's Address Book caused most birthday entries to either be changed
(to one or two days early) or deleted. If I had your birthday before,
please send it to me again!