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SSH Agent 1.1 (Mac OS X)
OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has ssh agent support built in. Assuming you have identities set up in your .ssh directory, the first time you make an ssh connection to a host on which you've stored your public key, a window will pop up asking whether you want to save the passphrase in your Keychain. If you do, you have passwordless connections from that point on, same as with SSH Agent. HOWEVER: if you have used SSH Agent in the past, you may need to edit ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist to remove the entry for SSH_AUTH_SOCK. Otherwise Leopard will be looking for a nonexistent socket and this won't work. [alert admin]
Wednesday, January 23 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
SSH Agent 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Causes problems with recent versions of OS X 
I have used SSH Agent for several years. It has been easy to use, and saves me several minutes a day of typing passwords or passphrases. But as has been noted in other comments, it has serious memory problems running under current versions of OS X. It increasingly hogs real memory in one's login session--earlier today I clocked it at about 500MB.
A better alternative now is SSH Keychain (Versiontracker page) which is actively maintained. It's using about 26MB of my memory right now.
[alert admin]Wednesday, October 17 2007 @ 10:11 AM PDT
oXygen XML Editor 7.1 (Mac OS X)
I've been using oXygen for three years, since version 2.0. Over that time it has developed into a powerful, stable, and feature-rich XML editor. The oXygen team are extremely responsive to their user community; I've seen them get a bug-fix into a point-version release within a couple days of the bug being noted on their email list or forum. The developers are also active in the XML standards community, and in particular they keep up to date on developments in document-centric XML markup systems like DocBook and TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), which are well supported in oXygen. The developers are also very good about implementing feature requests. I use both Mac OS X and Windows versions of oXygen, and one of the people in my office runs it under Linux. The consistency of the Java interface means that you can create a single user-instructions document and have it be usable by authors/developers working on different platforms. We use it in an advanced programming environment, but we also introduce it to beginning XML authors who produce documents for us, and we have found that oXygen is intuitive enough that they can start working with it after only an hour or so of instruction. Unless you require a WYSIWYG XML editor, oXygen should provide just about anything that you're likelly to need in an XML/XHTML/XSLT/XQuery editor. [alert admin]
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Thursday, May 25 2006 @ 07:15 AM PDT
Oracle Calendar 10.1.2 (Mac OS X)
I've had no problems with program functionality or interaction with the system running this upgrade on a G5 iMac with OS X 10.4.6. I don't synchronize Oracle Calendar with portable devices so I can't comment on any improvements in that area, but they've made one small but useful change to the GUI for entering events: drop-down buttons for "Importance" and "Access" appear on each screen right at the top, making it much easier to tag a meeting as Confidential if your default setting is public. (You could always do this, but it meant going to a different menu.) [alert admin]
Tuesday, April 25 2006 @ 08:00 AM PDT
SSH Agent 1.1 (Mac OS X)
High memory usage and some problems
SSH Agent has some memory usage problems under OS X 10.4.4 that I don't remember seeing before (maybe they were there and I didn't notice). It seems to take a minimum of about 186M of resident memory if I run it at startup, and if there are configuration changes made while the program is running it can go much higher. There were memory leak issues in earlier releases, I know. So while it is a very useful thing to have running if you do a lot of ssh/sftp work, keep an eye on the load it imposes on your system. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, January 24 2006 @ 09:37 AM PST
NewsFan 1.5.1 (Mac OS X)
As of 13 November, going to the linked Developer's Website returns a "domain expired 05 November 2004" page from the domain registrar. Not a real hopeful sign... [alert admin]
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Saturday, November 13 2004 @ 07:43 PM PST
eReader 2.5.1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
eReader 2.5.1 fixes crashing problem
2.5.1 is a bugfix release to fix the problem with crashing noted in my previous post on 2.5. So far it seems to be behaving properly. I don't own a PDA, but I use Palm's eReader Pro to read a lot of ebooks. I appreciate its configurability--you can expand and contract margins and line spacing, choose full justification or no justification, and basically have text displayed the way you want to display it. Which is why I generally find the .pdb file format more comfortable for reading ebooks that are mostly text than PDF + either Preview or Adobe Acrobat. [alert admin]
Wednesday, May 26 2004 @ 05:27 PM PDT
Palm Reader 2.5 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
This update installed and started okay on my Dual G4 machine at work, but it crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS every time I start it on my G3 iBook (both running OS X 10.3.3). If you do download and install this, it doesn't overwrite your previous Palm Reader installation if you have one (but you may have to re-enter the digital rights info for purchased ebooks if you go back to the previous version). [alert admin]
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Friday, May 21 2004 @ 07:15 PM PDT
Microsoft Virtual PC 6.1.1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
I was running 6.0.something, and the latest Windows Update on Win 2000 managed to trash things such that on Windows boot the program would hang and start over again, and booting into Safe Mode didn't help. So I figured, what the heck, VPC is already trashed, what can it hurt to upgrade to 6.1.1. Lo and behold, after the upgrade I was able to boot into Win2000 again. So it isn't a totally evil upgrade. [alert admin]
Monday, April 26 2004 @ 01:28 PM PDT
Microsoft IntelliPoint 5.0 (Mac OS X)
Problems with Intellipoint and OS X 10.3.3?
I've been using the Intellipoint 5 driver without any problems for months. After installing the OS X 10.3.3 upgrade, however, I've twice had an odd problem where button clicks using the mouse are not recognized by the OS. Moving the mouse moves the cursor, but left- or right-clicking gets no response. (Ditto for the built-in trackpad on my keyboard.) It might not be interaction with the Intellipoint driver that is causing this, but that was my first suspicion, so I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior. [alert admin]
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Friday, March 19 2004 @ 06:36 AM PST
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Another tip for comparing network volumes: under "Preferences - General", uncheck "Browse using Finder". Folder navigation will now use native Java navigation rather than the OS X Finder. Then when you select your folders, navigate to /Volumes on your system, where you will see the mounted Network folders.
The other advantage of that preference is that folder navigation is "sticky", which it is not using the Finder (i.e., the Finder browsing always starts at your home…
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Monday, January 30 2006 @ 11:59 AM PST
High memory usage and some problems
Update to comment: I just discovered that after I rebooted my computer, the starting RSIZE value for SSH Agent was about 13Mb. The huge RSIZE value I reported in the parent post was for running SSH Agent on a system that had been up for a couple of weeks at least (but where I had logged in and out often). So... SSH Agent is keeping a hook in memory after it is closed, maybe? Anyway,…
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Wednesday, January 25 2006 @ 06:48 AM PST
BEWARE - certain filetypes only supported!
Just to expand on this: it appears that the program works by searching data in deleted files and identifying structures that associate it with a particular kind of file. For example, if it finds HTML tags it assumes it is an HTML file; it can find a C program by looking for C sytax, etc.
It will NOT find any arbitrary text file. Per its current list (version 3.0), the only supported text file type is…
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Thursday, May 19 2005 @ 08:27 AM PDT
Deleting the plist file works the first time, but it appears that changing preferences messes things up again and the crashing begins again. This version appears to need a bugfix.
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Saturday, May 22 2004 @ 06:13 PM PDT
I deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.palmdigitalmedia.Reader.plist and now it's working. The file must have been corrupted, maybe by trying to pull in settings from my previous version of Palm Reader?
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Friday, May 21 2004 @ 07:49 PM PDT
You need to install the program as indicated in the docs, log out and log back in, and then open "System Preferences". You should see a MenuMeters item at the bottom under "Others". Open it, and you can choose which meters to display in the menu bar, plus some customizations.
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Thursday, July 17 2003 @ 06:13 AM PDT
