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Garmin Communicator Plugin v2.7.1.0 - v.2.7.1.0 - 6.78 MB

Garmin updated its Communicator Plugin on May 12, 2009 to the 2.7.1.0 version, an upgrade from version 2.6.4.0.  The Garmin Communicator Plugin is a free internet browser plugin that sends and retrieves data from Garmin GPS devices.  The Garmin Communicator can send and retrieve data from any supported website.

The plugin works with IBM-compatible PCs running Windows® XP or Vista operating systems with Internet Explorer 6+ or Firefox 1.5+ Intel-based or PowerPC G3 or later Mac OS 10.4 or later with Firefox 2.0+ or Safari 2.0.  It is not compatible with Windows 2000 computers and will not install and/or function properly.

Changes made from version 2.6.4 to 2.7.1:

• Added support to download and extract zip files to mass storage devices.
• Fixed an issue with gps data transfer to Windows Mobile devices.

Garmin’s Communicator Plugin page is located at http://www8.garmin.com/products/communicator/

After a clean install of Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 (and subsequent Windows updates) on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet, I checked the device manager to see if Vista missed anything.  Only one yellow exclamation point was displayed.  I dug into the properties of the unknown device and it displayed the following information: unknown device – other device on Intel 82801 FBM LPC Interface Controller – 2641.  Doing a search on this information pointed to about half of the notebook devices made during the last few years – nothing useful.  I looked at the hardware ID of the unknown device and it displayed ACPI\IFX0101.  A search on that string produced results including an Infineon TPM (Trusted Platform Module), which I knew existed on my Tecra.  I browsed over to Toshiba.com, downloaded the Trusted Platform Software, and no more unknown devices in the device manager.

We ran into a problem recently in SAS Web Report Studio 3.1 where our web reports that contained graphs produced java errors while our table-only reports did not.  Our platform is SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server 9.1.3 Service Pack 4 running Solaris 10 on Sun SPARC Servers.  Our web server is Apache Tomcat 4.1.18.  The error we received looked like this:

Error messages:There is a problem with the current page. Error Rendering the Report

Root Cause: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

  at com.sas.servlet.tbeans.graphics.BaseBarChart.(BaseBarChart.java:23)

  at com.sas.servlet.tbeans.olapgraphics.html.OLAPBarChart.(OLAPBarChart.java:83)

  at com.sas.servlet.tbeans.olapgraphics.html.OLAPBarChart.(OLAPBarChart.java:74)

  at com.sas.servlet.tbeans.olapgraphics.html.OLAPBarChartComposite.(OLAPBarChartComposite.java:57)

  at com.sas.servlet.tbeans.olapgraphics.html.OLAPBarChartComposite.(OLAPBarChartComposite.java:43)

…

I contacted SAS tech support and they had the answer instantly.  When running in a headless environment (a server that does not have a display (monitor) attached to it), Tomcat requires the following option in its startup script:

Djava.awt.headless=true

Once I added the option to the Tomcat startup script and restarted Tomcat and SAS Remote Services, no more errors and we were getting our graph output in Web Report Studio again.