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User Name deemery
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Total number of Feedback Posts: 53
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Parallels Desktop 4.0 Build 3846 (Mac OS X)
Now available via in-application updater
I triggered the update from the application's Help menu. However, the "get new update" application didn't like the fact that on my machine ~/Downloads is an alias to a folder located elsewhere, so I had to manually select the download location. (Since I'm running File Vault, I locate my Downloads folder in a location that is not encrypted.) [alert admin]
Tuesday, September 01 2009 @ 03:05 AM PDT
Microsoft Office 2008 12.2.0 (Mac OS X)
I thought this was coming with this update to Office 08, but maybe I misunderstood and we'll have to wait for something like Office 10??? Anyway, that deficiency substantially impairs the utility of Office 08, since I get a lot of stuff that has VB-based stuff in it. It makes compatibility/interoperability with Windows versions of Office a lot more difficult. (The only reason I moved off of Office 04 was that I got a -really good deal- on my copy.) The speed performances do not make up for the functional deficiencies, and the mostly gratuitous user interface changes are annoying. What remains to be seen is whether this release fixes the occasional crash when I try to read a Windows Office file. When that happened in earlier versions of Office 08, I'd just open the file with NeoOffice. Overall Office 08 has a better user interface than NeoOffice, but not enough to justify the price differential :-). [alert admin]
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Wednesday, July 22 2009 @ 05:18 AM PDT
Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7 (Mac OS X)
OS -SERVER- update experience (could also apply to client)
Leopard Server Software Update found the Server updater, but I had problems downloading it using Software Update. Instead I downloaded the package from the Apple support site and ran the installer from there. Installer ran OK, but the machine hung on a blue screen (UGH!) the first time. Rebooting it manually caused the machine to then try to boot and restart a couple of times, before it finally succeeded. Now I'm running Permissions Repair. Running Permissions Repair on my X.5.7 client found -a lot- of stuff that needed fixing. That installation was accomplished using conventional Software Update. [alert admin]
Tuesday, May 12 2009 @ 06:21 PM PDT
Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.7 (Mac OS X)
DO NOT INSTALL! Broke my copy of Word 
I installed the update. Now when I try to launch any Microsoft Office application, it crashes immediately. It appears to be a missing library. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, April 14 2009 @ 02:10 PM PDT
Apple iTunes 8.1 (Mac OS X)
I've noticed this version tends to hangs when playing both a net radio feed and a long podcast, after about 20-25 minutes. dave [alert admin]
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Sunday, March 15 2009 @ 07:37 AM PDT
Currency Converter 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Latest version has problems - avoid
It drives CPU utilization for the Dashboard process to 100% (and causes the fan to crank up) on my MacBook Pro. Messing around with the Dashboard widgets verified 1.2.1 was the offender. I'd stick with the previous version, for what until -this version- has proven to be a very good, stable little widget. dave [alert admin]
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Thursday, March 12 2009 @ 10:44 AM PDT
JollysFastVNC 0.96.82 (Mac OS X)
Great app, but needs to handle right mouse button
The only complaint I have is that I wish the right mouse button would send the correct modifier key to the remote machine. Otherwise, this is a great app, and I strongly recommend it. [alert admin]
Tuesday, February 03 2009 @ 09:50 AM PST
Parallels Desktop 4.0 Build 3540 (Mac OS X)
Backup BootCamp partitions before installing
This is always good advice, but in this case it seemed to be essential. My first attempt at installing this failed. Windows got into an infinite loop due to a crash during the boot cycle. So I went to a backup I had with WinClone, restored it, launched BootCamp, got -everything- up to date, and then relaunched Parallels. This time the update worked as expected. dave [alert admin]
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Sunday, November 23 2008 @ 08:36 AM PST
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Mac OS X)
Mixed, but a bonus in this version
Thunderbird is in desperate need of a full User Interface rework. Still, it has some nice features and the functionality I need, even if it's hard to use at time. The newest thing in this version is the ability to display "meeting.ics" files received as attachments to email messages from Microsoft Outlook. #1 on my improvement list would be speeding up searching. #2 would be to consider an option to place messages into individual files, rather than one big (hard to index and easy to corrupt) database. dave (I still miss Eudora...) [alert admin]
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Friday, November 21 2008 @ 04:05 PM PST
Apple Mac OS X 10.5.5 (Mac OS X)
Mail.app required me to re-enter the mail account's password. dave [alert admin]
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Monday, September 15 2008 @ 11:28 PM PDT
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Wouldn't restart until I disconnected all USB /Firewire
Me too, but then I believe Apple tells you to disconnect all peripherals (so I have no excuse/reason to complain...)
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Friday, August 28 2009 @ 07:43 PM PDT
1. Used "remove office" to get rid of it 2. THEN did cd /library/receipts sudo rm -rf Office2008* 3. Reinstalled from the CD 4. Let Windows Auto-update run
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Wednesday, April 15 2009 @ 06:40 AM PDT
DO NOT INSTALL! Broke my copy of Word
More on this piece of strong fertilizer: I ran 'remove office', installed fresh from the CD, and now -no updates- are being installed. I also tried running Microsoft Update from within MS Word, and it went into a loop, where it would download the update, try to install. Installer would immediate terminate (no error). Lather, rinse, repeat. It appears that the 'remove office' cow pie fails to remove the package receipts for updates. Maybe…
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Tuesday, April 14 2009 @ 02:22 PM PDT
Apple's RAID offerings are limited at best...
Here's a link to a neat little app that solves the Apple RAID notification problem (RAIDEye): http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31491 dave
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Saturday, February 28 2009 @ 11:23 AM PST
WARNING: changes file associations
I don't know what Open Office did during installation, but no matter how many times I tell the Mac "Open .ppt with Microsoft PowerPoint, do this for all files of this type", many files are still marked with Open Office as the default application. So I trashed Open Office. -I- (and not the Open Office developers) will decide which damn application to use to open a file. I wonder what else Open Office has…
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Wednesday, July 09 2008 @ 06:08 AM PDT
Updates to Credit where it's due dept
Well, it does fix at least one problem in PowerPoint rendering images that it previously render (such as my project's title slide graphic :-) It's still painfully slow in rendering, but better slow than "not" or "crash". So after 2 days of usage, so-far-so-good. You have to install the OOXML interpreters as a separate download. But they do seem to work. I got an .xlsx document that the OOXML interpreters opened in…
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Thursday, June 26 2008 @ 05:50 AM PDT
I did that and it doesn't work for 'launch application' That's exactly how I would -expect- it to work, but that's not how it -does work-, at least not on my computer. What that does do is provide the -default- location if the action is 'save to disk'. dave
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Wednesday, February 27 2008 @ 10:37 AM PST
Image fails to mount - error 0xe00002c9
Worked fine for me on Intel MacBook Pro running Tiger (intel version of installer) and G5/2ghzDP running Leopard (PPc version of installer.) dave
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Monday, December 17 2007 @ 04:58 PM PST
"Who needs this?" is not a fair comment
Not a fair comment: 1. I have about 1k CDs myself, but I don't have the storage space to have them all lined up alphabetically. (Besides, how do you catalog them, particularly classical? By performer? By composer? What about albums with multiple composers and multiple performers?) 2. With respect to books, I don't know how many books I have, but they're spread all across the house. A…
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Tuesday, October 23 2007 @ 08:31 AM PDT
It's weird, but the place to change your mailer preferences is from Mail.app. So open Mail.app, open its application preferences, and make sure Entourage (if that's what you want) is selected as the default mail application. dave
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Saturday, October 13 2007 @ 04:39 PM PDT
