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User Profile for MacJuanC

User Name MacJuanC

Member Since 2004-01-07

Total number of Feedback Posts: 36

Total number of comments: 10

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Apple Mac OS X 10.6.1 (Mac OS X)

This is ridiculous!  

A SERVICE PACK in less than two weeks after release?!? What were you thinking, Apple? Why didn't you delay release till September, as promised, and avoid this kind of embarrasment? Oh, and the *.la files, which have caused so much problems for developers, where will they finally be? [alert admin]

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Thursday, September 10 2009 @ 03:27 PM PDT

Vuze 4.2.0.8 (Mac OS X)

Spyware still around?  

Could anyone please indicate if this latest VUZE incarnation still comes preloaded with spyware like its predecessors? [alert admin]

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Thursday, August 27 2009 @ 10:44 PM PDT

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 (Mac OS X)

Still fails ACID3...  

Very nice, fast and spiffy, but it still fails to get 100 on the ACID3 test, in contrast with Safari 4 that finishes flawlessly. http://acid3.acidtests.org/ [alert admin]

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Wednesday, July 01 2009 @ 06:05 PM PDT

VMware Fusion 2.0.5 (Mac OS X)

Some OS not supported.  

On the Windows camp, Windows 7 is still not supported in 2.0.5, so you have to use the Windows Vista profile when creating the VM and hope for the best if you are trying out the Windows 7 RC that Microsoft is offering for testing till 6/2010. (side note: VirtualBox does support Win7 as of now). No support at all is offered for OpenBSD or NetBSD. Only FreeBSD appears in the Others section. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, June 24 2009 @ 09:04 AM PDT

ImageJ 1.43a (Mac OS X)

64 bit no longer works after Java update  

After the latest Java update from Apple (JavaForMacOSX10.5Update4), the 64 bit version of ImageJ no longer starts. Double click on the icon, and you get nothing. The 32 bit version works ok. [alert admin]

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Friday, June 19 2009 @ 04:35 PM PDT

Apple Safari 4.0.1 (Mac OS X)

First one!  

Wooo! First browser I've tried (carry 9 different ones for compatibility testing) that passes the most gruelling of them all, the Acid3 Web Standards Compliance test with a flawless 100% score. If you want to try: http://www.acidtests.org/ [alert admin]

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Thursday, June 18 2009 @ 12:16 AM PDT

Apple Bluetooth 2.0 (Mac OS X)

Maybe one day...  

Well, it seems we Nokia phone users will have to wait some more to be able to interconnect via Bluetooth with the Mac. This 2.0 update still does not allow, for example, an N73 to pair and communicate successfully with Leopard. Something that happened flawlessly with Tiger. So much sophistication, but we still can't ditch the wire... [alert admin]

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Thursday, June 18 2009 @ 12:04 AM PDT

Vuze 4.2.0.2 (Mac OS X)

Updating without the extra baggage  

Since the installer has the nasty habit of adding additional and unwanted baggage and sometimes the autoupdater won't install newer versions (probably to give the installer a chance to do its disgusting thing), you can go to Vuze's download page, select and download the .jar file option, rename to Azureus2.jar, control/right click on the Vuze file, select Show Package Contents, drill down to the Resources/Java folder and replace the old Azureus2.jar file with the one just downloaded. When you run it again, it will update its other components and plugins, but no extras from the installer! [alert admin]

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Friday, April 10 2009 @ 01:57 AM PDT

WireTap Studio 1.0.8 (Mac OS X)

Good to have these alternatives on the Mac  

Soon, products like this will be another good reason to switch to the Mac. Latest news from the Windows 7 battlefront say that it comes with such a draconian DRM setup that doing things like recording from your apps will be impossible and the input on the sound card on the PC's will be severely crippled. The fact that the MicroSerfs don't learn even after the Vista debacle bodes well for the Mac. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, February 17 2009 @ 08:15 PM PST

Apple MacBook/Pro Software Update 1.2 (Mac OS X)

Unbelievable  

People haven't gotten their hands on the product and there's an update awaiting.... [alert admin]

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Tuesday, October 14 2008 @ 08:48 PM PDT

Last 10 Comments by MacJuanC  [ Search for All ]

This is ridiculous!  

BTW, bunch of Jobs-sucking twits, I've been using Macs since the days of the 128MB single-diskette Mac and MacOS 1.0, of which I still have the original install diskette. This was probably before you were even potty trained. And having installed all flavors of MacOS, together with IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, HP/UX, all flavors of BSD's, Linux, not to mention Windoze excrement, I call a spade a spade. SL is very unfinished business and Apple…

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Thursday, September 10 2009 @ 04:28 PM PDT

How do we Uninstall?  

A .kext is a Kernel extension and the file itself is located in System/Library/Extensions/ on your boot volume. Presumably it will have some illustrative name (i.e., Gloworm.kext), if it does not, do NOT guesstimate which one. Erasing the wrong .kext file can really screw up your system. You can also determine which files were installed and where by inspecting the installation package with a tool such as <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12743">Pacifist</a>.

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Sunday, December 17 2006 @ 09:30 AM PST

how do i set up to use cheats?  

CHEAT ???? What? You want to set up your own computerized Abu Ghraib or what? Maybe even with your very own CyberLynndie? Nasty.....

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Friday, October 28 2005 @ 10:31 PM PDT

change your ethernet mac adress  

or you can reboot the computer and have it return to its default, burned-in MAC address. None of all these utilities and Terminal commands can change the MAC address permanently, since that is burned in a ROM. However, when the computer starts up and activates the network interfaces, the corresponding MAC address gets copied over to RAM: what all these alternatives do is simply overwrite the area in RAM where it was stored.

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Sunday, October 02 2005 @ 11:24 PM PDT

.jar file only  

On MacOS X, autoupdate will only happen if you've upgraded to 2.3.0.0 or newer. The updater on the older 2.2.x.x clients doesn't seem to work, so you will at least have to manually update the .jar file once.

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Wednesday, May 25 2005 @ 10:02 AM PDT

.jar file only  

Yes, that's the only thing that changed. But it's no biggie: - Download the .jar file. - Right-click/Ctrl-click on your old Azureus app. - Select "Show package contents" on the dropmenu. - Go to Contents/Resources/Java. - There you will find a file named "Azureus2.jar". - Trash it and place the 2.3.0.2.jar file you downloaded. - Rename this file to "Azureus2.jar". - All set: you've just upgraded your Azureus client. - Close the window, double-click on the app and have fun!

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Wednesday, May 25 2005 @ 09:59 AM PDT

Stopped working a while back  

Have you tried erasing your configuration? "ch.sudo.cyberduck.plist", found inside your Library/Preferences/ folder is the file to kill and should reset the WonderDuck to its initial blank state.

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Monday, April 11 2005 @ 05:04 PM PDT

so far, so good!  

at is the user version of "cron": a Unix utility that helps you schedule tasks to be carried out automatically by the system in your stead sometime in the future. Cron needs special privileges to run and you have to modify the crontab file to set things up, whereas "at" is configured with the command-line. Regarding the change of the /private/var/at/jobs/ directory ownership, what Apple apparently did is make it belong to the "daemon" service…

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Wednesday, January 26 2005 @ 12:12 AM PST

slowness  

You want slow ? Why don'tcha get Dreamweaver? Takes 30-60 seconds to load on a 1.25GHz PB with 1GB RAM and don't even dream of opening a multi-megabyte file there. Plus you'll get that nice, warm, fuzzy feeling of helping out a huge multimillion-dollar corporation so they can ignore you then you ask for product help, instead of supporting a postdoctoral researcher who does this as a side hobby and usually responds in a…

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Sunday, August 29 2004 @ 09:17 PM PDT

Current dmg version?  

The program version found on the .dmg image pointed to by this VT catalog entry is 8.3fc10, which is certainly much newer than its beta predecessors. Also, the developer sometimes forgets to update the version string in the application, even though it is a newer version, so your best bet is probably to trust the file date.

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Sunday, August 29 2004 @ 08:56 PM PDT