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User Name Rufus J
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Opera 10.0 (Mac OS X)
bug (regression) driving me nuts 
Opera 10 re-introduces a bug which had existed in prerelease versions of 9.5 but long since corrected. It does not integrate fully with the system in a way which makes it extremely frustrating to use as the default browser. It fails to properly launch and open URLs sent to it from other applications. It will launch, but open the home page set in prefs rather than the URL being requested by the application sending the message. If Opera is already running, everything is fine, but this bug is truly maddening. I am no longer willing to use Opera as my default, even though it is my preferred browser. This is a shameful regression that needs to be fixed! The browser is fast, stable, and allows far and away the most flexible control over the browsing experience, but I can't tolerate this bug. Without it, I'd give it 5 stars, but not now. (Opera 10 is the only browser I have on my computer that does this. Opera 9.64 works correctly.) [alert admin]
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Tuesday, September 08 2009 @ 05:43 AM PDT
Opera 10.0 release candidate (Mac OS X)
Opera has been my default browser for a long time, but the pre-release versions have lately all been very poorly integrated into the system and I am becoming frustrated to the breaking point. The browser is fast, reliable, full of features, and offers an unparalleled ability to customize the browsing experience. My frustration is with the development versions for Mac do not open web locations from other applications unless Opera is already launched. The best it will do if it's not open is launch and open the default page instead of the URL it's supposed to open. In some applications it returns the URL (somehow or another) back to the application - email client or news reader, for example - and causes that application to attempt to open it however it interprets the system message. This is supremely frustrating and just stupid, in my opinion. Opera needs to address this poorly planned development approach and eliminate this frustrating behavior. In the past couple versions, this was not correctly implemented until the actual release and that is way too late! This rating is based on the level of frustration this current pre-release version causes. While I expect this to be corrected in the final release, I can't KNOW that. When (if) it is corrected, I will consider this a five star app, but it's not even close with this major failing. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, August 25 2009 @ 01:46 PM PDT
Transmission 1.71 (Mac OS X)
Transmission is a really great bittorrent client. With a very easy to use interface, it is easy to configure and it's easy to manage your torrents. Creating them is a snap, too, in case you're one of those who likes to give back.
With the last couple of rounds of feature enhancements, transmission now lacks very few features of other clients. I still wish it allowed queue reordering, and I'm not convinced it pays much attention to "priority" settings, and I would really like to have the ability to manage upload slots. These are the only shortcomings I can think of at the moment.
I have right now 98 torrents in the queue and Transmission is running just as quietly in the background as ever, with no increased use of resources or any signs of unresponsiveness. I have also been using it without incident since v1.3 at a private tracker which officially discourages it because of problems with earlier version.
Transmission is a truly great piece of software which is steadily growing and developing. With just a very few features missing, Transmission is a "must try" for anyone looking into bittorrent clients.
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Saturday, June 13 2009 @ 10:18 AM PDT
Throttled Pro 1.5.1 (Mac OS X)
Really useful, really simple, really effective.
There just isn't anything else to ask for. I have to admit it seems a little bit much money to pay for a simple gui to a free cli program (with a startup item), but that's something each individual has to consider for himself. The gui does make for incredibly simple setup, though, and most users can just select the easy config and "go". Anyone running torrents ought to notice an immediate improvement in their ability to use their connection while running their bt client, and they should find they can throttle their client at somewhat higher speeds than previously, to boot. Definitely a useful and effective tool! [alert admin]
Tuesday, June 09 2009 @ 12:37 PM PDT
Transmission 1.70 (Mac OS X)
Ther initial release of version 1.70 includes a big which turns Transmission into a CPU hog. There is discussion about this problem on their Mac support forum and the latest nightly builds include a fix. If you've got this problem, the solution may be to go grab the latest daily snapshot build. [alert admin]
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Sunday, June 07 2009 @ 08:35 AM PDT
aMule 2.2.5 (Mac OS X)
This version is a compiled binary.
The last couple of versions presented here were source only and not a precompiled and working binary application. That is what caused the problems for the previous posters. This version, 2.2.5, is a ready to use application and works fine. To answer the question "who uses this network?" let's just say a whole lot of people, which is what makes it such a rich source of material. I have only two minor complaints. One, that it can get a little out of control if the active queue is too big, but I may be abusing it a little bit, not really wanting to babysit it. It would be nice if it had a little more developed queue control, although it may be that the nature of this network and protocol makes this somewhat of an inherent weakness. My second little complaint is that the whole interface locks during searches, which sometimes take a little while when using Kad. Not a big deal, but is always disconcerting. [alert admin]
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Saturday, June 06 2009 @ 10:28 AM PDT
CLIX 2.0.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Version 2 fixed and working in PPC :))
Hats off to Rick and Rixstep for their quick fix of the problem. This is a terrific and useful piece of software based on an interesting concept which gives us a fascinating insight into the Unix command line roots of OS X. I like it :) [alert admin]
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Friday, February 27 2009 @ 08:22 AM PST
MPlayer OSX Extended rev8 (Mac OS X)
I have had trouble with mplayer and h264 for several versions and this seems to have solved it. I had preferred this to vlc but couldn't use it for a lot of my files. This reestablishes mplayer as my preferred media player again. [alert admin]
Saturday, January 10 2009 @ 11:20 AM PST
Linkinus 1.3 (Mac OS X)
This software has some nice features, but in the end is very unsatisfactory. Too many things are not customizable, some interface features are merely unintuitive and some others clumsy enough to be extremely frustrating and discouraging. The killer, though, is that any activity in a session sends CPU through the roof. This thing needs some interface adjustments and also some serious under the hood alterations for it to be a good client. Cannot recommend, although I hope these issues are successfully addressed because there are some good things here. (I had no problems staying connected, so a previous poster's experience could not be said to be universal and it does have options to auto-reconnect.) [alert admin]
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Monday, October 20 2008 @ 08:23 AM PDT
MacPorts 1.6.0 (Mac OS X)
It really doesn't work much like fink or BSD's Portage. Maybe it's supposed to, but it doesn't. So many packages are broken; dependencies fail to build for all kinds of reasons. A giant time waster. It's a shame some interesting software is offered and some software authors seem to rely on macports for their OS X releases. I for one do not buy the BS about installing macports wholly seperate fomr OS X. This requires the installation of sometimes enormous amounts of redundant software and prevents the convenient use of macports to install things to complie other sources against the way one can, seemlessly, with fink. This is a nice idea very poorly done. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 17 2008 @ 01:16 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Rufus J [ Search for All ]
bug (regression) driving me nuts
bug still present in 10.01
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Thursday, October 29 2009 @ 09:02 PM PDT
There is a free license for up to five user accounts. This is an awesome mail server and anyone wanting to run a mail server on their own machine for just a small number of accounts would do well to investigate it. I have run previous versions and was very very happy with it.
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Monday, October 12 2009 @ 06:25 AM PDT
Searching your name shows two posts on Opera 10 and the only thing you've said here about a bug loading images is that there is one and you suppose they'll fix it sometime.
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Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 01:48 PM PDT
That's too funny! YES it was a lack of knowledge! Opera can do what you wanted but you didn't know. Jeez, you are on arrogant little pinhead! Your second comment is just plain bizarre. You dumped on Opera for not following the lead of your favorite browsers and get all pissy when you find out Opera was there first. What a charming fellow you are. Have a nice day :)
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Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 01:36 PM PDT
I can't find any previous mention of an image loading bug in your comments. Opera allows you to choose to wrap your toolbars or show an extender button, which should allow you two different methods to maintain the display of both the text and the bookmark icon. Would either of those be what you are looking for? You can edit your toolbars independently so you can wrap the tab bar without wrapping the personal bar…
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Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 11:39 AM PDT
You're welcome! Surely you meant to say thank you for solving this deal-breaker problem for you before you were distracted by other things. Turns out the problem isn't a lack of capability, just one of knowledge. Good luck :) Opera has a forum, Google is full of information. It's just not that hard if you're genuinely interested. Or, are you mostly interested in coming here to whine and rant? Btw, Opera was using tabs for several years…
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Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 10:17 AM PDT
Can you describe the image loading bug? Did you submit a bug report to Opera? With all due respect, I can't remember the last time I imported bookmarks. Why is this such an important task? I suspect that for most users, it's pretty much a one time operation. I have found Opera's bookmark management to be pretty simple, and arranging the personal bar is just a matter of dragging the bookmarks to whatever position you want…
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Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 07:40 AM PDT
How hard could you have looked? You're already using a keyboard shortcut, so you shouldn't complain about using the shift key in addition. However, if that's too much, you can reverse these shortcuts in prefs so that command+click opens the link in the background tab and cmd+shift+click opens and jumps to a new tab.
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Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 07:30 AM PDT
rhpatrick, the poster did not complain about lack of keychain. (s)He said "some might". Indeed, as far as browsing goes, the Wand is an improvement over the keychain, but it does mean that Opera will not accept already stored (from other applications) passwords nor will it give its Wand passwords to other application, and this can be a source of frustration and therefore a legitimate complaint. There is probably no reason why Opera for Mac…
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Tuesday, September 01 2009 @ 09:19 AM PDT
Opera 10 install in Snow Leopard
Have you tried it in a different user account? This often reveals that the problem is a conflict with a file in your home directory. This is something that is too common in OS X and it seems that for some reason or another, Opera is especially prone to this. If you can run it logged in as a different user, this is the problem.
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Tuesday, September 01 2009 @ 07:48 AM PDT
