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User Name lullabud
Member Since 2005-01-10
Total number of Feedback Posts: 9
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Senuti 0.33 (Mac OS X)
For free, this tool is all you could hope to get. It's a little slow when adding TONS of songs to iTunes after copying them, but other than that I haven't had any problems with the last several versions. Better still, it's free. Awesome. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, April 03 2007 @ 09:55 AM PDT
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From my experience, this is the most responsive VNC client for OS X. [alert admin]
Friday, October 20 2006 @ 02:12 PM PDT
Snes9x 1.5 (Mac OS X)
I have both 1.4.3 and 1.5 on my Macbook and even though 1.5 is Universal it runs a tad lower than real-time, but the PPC 1.4.3 version runs full-speed. Also, the freeze states aren't compatible. [alert admin]
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Saturday, September 23 2006 @ 06:46 PM PDT
distributed.net Client 2.9010.495 (Mac OS X)
I used to participate heavily in RC5-64. When it was cracked I kept doing the OGR (which I personally think is a more beneficial project, but has no purse) until the RC5-72 client came out. When it came out it wasn't optimized for Altivec. Altivec has a hardware bit-rotate function which makes it 4x faster than a Pentium 3, clock for clock, and 16x faster than a P4. Since this RC5-72 core wasn't optimized for Altivec I was getting terrible speeds. I e-mailed the guy who developed the RC5-64 core and asked him to make an RC5-72 core with Altivec tweaks. What he told me was very enlightening... He told me that there were better things to spend my CPU cycles on. Cracking encryption does have its applications, but RC5-64 took 4 years to complete. Each additional bit doubles that time. According to Moore's Law we will double CPU speed every year. Take those two points into consideration and you come to the conclusion that if we all waited 6 years after RC5-64 was cracked we'd then need roughly 3 years to finish RC5-72. Otherwise we'd need several more years to finish it. So, assuming we'll crack it in a few years, then what? ... My darling, sweet, beautiful two year old niece was recently diagnosed with leukemia. ... There are distributed computing projects that are dedicated to finding cures for diseases. Projects like Folding@Home, Genome@home, and other's which help research cures for diseases that plague mankind himself, the very fabric that makes us live, not the pitfalls of the things which we have created and the disagreement about actions we take on each other. I agree that restrictions on the freedom to secure your digital information and technological assets is a problem, but I think anybody who is participating in distributed.net needs to rethink the power of any statement that could be made by succeeding in cracking a specific encryption algorithm as opposed to the discoveries and progress which could be made towards overcoming global afflictions and understanding the building block which we are made from and the weaknesses within them. [alert admin]
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Thursday, June 30 2005 @ 12:21 AM PDT
Acquisition 119.3 (Mac OS X)
Awesome Resource Improvements! 
I was very irked by the increasing resource usage of Acquisition, especially being a paying customer, but so far this release is behaving *amazingly* better than previous releases, and yes, it's behaving better than Cabos. This awesome release definitely reclaims Acquisition as my favorite Mac p2p app. Thanks for a kick ass release David! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 22 2005 @ 03:43 PM PDT
Brown University tn3270 X 3.1.6 (Mac OS X)
When I saw there this terminal emulator come through the VT RSS feed I was so happy that I had finally found an RS232 terminal emulator... then I realized I hadn't. Are there ANY terminal emulators that support RS232?? I need this for debugging hardware at work and I'm sick of using windows for it. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 01 2005 @ 02:08 PM PDT
StuffIt Expander 9.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Coming from windows, I'd never had so much trouble with a compression format. "There is an update, do you want to download it?" *clicks no* The app restarts and says it all the sudden doesn't work... gee, I had no choice but to update. All for what? DMG is built in to Mac OS. So is tgz. Stuffit is an unnecessary evil. I've always disliked it, and now there's no reason to like it other than sentiment. [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 28 2005 @ 12:32 PM PDT
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It amazed me to discover that you have to PAY for the 50 slide version. It's available in different resolutions, which leads me to believe that it's merely a .Mac Slides or a Pictures screensaver that uses images of sayings for its content. $5 is definitely not worth that price, especially when you could find a perl script that would generate these slides (or write one, it would take about 10 lines of code) and do it yourself. If they had an artistic flare to them I could understand it... if each saying was layered on a photograph that accented its meaning, but white text on black backgrounds are to easy to automatically generate. Speaking of which, it sounds like a wonderful perl exercise... [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 16 2005 @ 12:09 PM PST
myPhoto 1.3.1b1 (Mac OS X)
Thank GOD I read the comments that chris_k left!! The myPhoto installer crashed when I was first installing, and had I not read his comments I'd have just whacked my whole myPhoto directory, which would've anihilated my entire iPhoto library. See, myPhoto moves your iPhoto library to your ~/Sites/myPhoto/ folder, I'm assuming to make http permissions easy, and it puts an alias to the new location in place of the original location. I personally think that this behavior is AWFUL. A symlink to the original location seems MUCH better, and that's exactly what I'm going to do when I get this all installed correctly. THANK YOU CHRIS_K for saving my iPhoto library!!! I'll thank the developer when I get this all working correctly... [alert admin]
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Monday, January 10 2005 @ 01:25 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by lullabud [ Search for All ]
Do you have any idea how hard it is to implement automatic updates?
Apparently it's pretty easy.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/sparkle.html
That being said, it's ok if the author of the software doesn't want to put the feature in, but it would be better if the author was passionate about the software and wanted to make it as good as it could be.
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Sunday, September 10 2006 @ 11:33 AM PDT
That's not the point, it's superfluous.
I'd actually be more happy if this software cost money. Why? Because maybe then companies would stop distributing their releases in .sit format. Hell, even this software itself is distributed in DMG. Go figure, it does everything that is needed, and it's OS X native, no need to install. Stuffit's only purpose is to perpetuate its historical purpose, and that purpose has been filled otherwise. I've had my problems with Stuffit…
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Wednesday, September 07 2005 @ 04:03 PM PDT
I was wrong, Cabos uses Java. It does have a smaller resource footprint, but I haven't used it all that much so I'm not sure how it is with the long run. Acquisition works fine for me though, so I'm sticking with it.
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Wednesday, June 15 2005 @ 09:03 AM PDT
I don't know why you're being modded down for that, it's very informative. I've always disliked the huge resource footprint that goes along with Acquisition, Java.... Cabos may not have the snazzy UI that Acquisition has, which is a *very* nice feature, but the fact that it uses a fraction of the resources could be the deciding factor. Right now I have Cabos open and my CPU usage is dipping below 10%.…
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Tuesday, June 14 2005 @ 11:08 AM PDT
Bonjour is far from dead, and actually I use it quite a bit in my job, which is testing SOHO wireless gateways and routers. I have Bonjour installed on all of my windows test systems because it's *very* useful in ad-hoc type networking where things aren't always configured right, netbios host names are cached, or where DHCP is missing. Apps like Rendevous Beacon make the protocol even more useful because you can broadcast…
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Saturday, June 04 2005 @ 04:07 PM PDT
Anybody who watches the versiontracker RSS knows that there are apps that update more frequently than once a week, and some of these are professional apps. Personally, I like to at least have the option to upgrade. Otherwise, just don't do it! Geez, how hard is it to not do something?
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Sunday, May 15 2005 @ 09:38 PM PDT
Disable auto-sync to listen elsewhere
Actually you can just plug in your iPod to another computer an listen. You just have to disable automatic sync. This does not, however, let you copy the music from the iPod onto the computer that it is plugged into.
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Wednesday, May 11 2005 @ 09:55 AM PDT
