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User Name m-bomb
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Total number of Feedback Posts: 27
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PGP Desktop 9.9 (Mac OS X)
Go back to your purchase confirmation... 
...attached as a PDF to the confirmation email from PGP, and you will find a non-expiring link. I have never had the kind of problems with this product other people do. And I am not a moron, nor a PGP employee. [alert admin]
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Friday, January 09 2009 @ 07:54 PM PST
PrinterSetup 0037 (Mac OS X)
The fact is, even a single user may to access cups (at http://localhost:631) with Safari or whatever, occasionally. I bought a DYMO DiscPainter, installed all software, updated to latest. Wouldn't work (stuck at "rendering". Googled the error message I was using. Turns out you had to "modify printer" from the CUPS localhost site, correcting it to "generic USB" device. Bang. Printer works. My girlfriend has an Epson CX8400 all-in-one. It stopped printing at some point. Reinstalled correct Epson drivers for her (10.4.11) computer. Didn't work, but her printer worked perfectly with the latest Epson Leopard drivers (I'm running Leopard on my computer). So installed "Gutenprint" (i.e. 3d party) on hers. When adding the printer to her computer used "Cups EPSON 8400 + Gutenprint" (instead of just "EPSON CX8400", which was the first choice). Guess what, the thing starts working, even through airport extreme. The moral of the story "messing" with CUPS and installing "3d party" versions sometimes does the trick when nothing else will. If by "messing with CUPS" one means compiling the latest source code and installing on one's system, I have to agree. I did this once. It held up until the next security update. That update so hosed my (modified) printing system I had to do an archive and install. (I did the compiling because Apple's version of CUPS is always behind the main one, and a lot of what they do is security fixes. One has to assume Apple is handling these security fixes in some other manner. Or at least one hopes they are (they now OWN CUPS, after all!). Certainly they don't bring out the latest version of CUPS as they come out (same thing with JAVA). You have to wait for them to get around to it. I find this irritating. I love Apple, but they are control freaks. Don't do things for the hell of it, but if you know what you're doing, having some rudimentary knowledge of your computer's software and printing architecture can be a good idea...and sometimes you need bigger interventions, like this software. [alert admin]
Thursday, November 20 2008 @ 02:45 PM PST
Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.3 (Mac OS X)
I haven't tested this extensively, but hell, Entourage is even SLOWER than the 12.1.2. Mine used to start without a spinning beach ball. Now it does. It's slooowww.... Word is a little faster to save, but you still get a beachball (I'm always afraid it's going to crash)... [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 15 2008 @ 03:16 PM PDT
DiskStudio 1.6.2 (Mac OS X)
Why not use Leopard's Disk Utility?
...which allows repartitioning and size changing? If you're running Leopard there is no need that I can see for this program. I used an earlier version with Tiger and it's good for that, I suppose. [alert admin]
Sunday, September 28 2008 @ 03:47 PM PDT
PGP Desktop 9.9 (Mac OS X)
How to check your upgrade status
The update function in the program doesn't owrk. Have your 9.83 serial number handy and go here: http://woext.pgp.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Upgrades.woa/wa/eligibility#__anchor_ProductSelector [alert admin]
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Friday, August 29 2008 @ 05:45 AM PDT
Adobe Acrobat 9.0 (Mac OS X)
Adobe update and security nonsense
I updated to Pro 8.0 a few months ago. Adobe Standard 7.09 (well, actually it was 7.0, and I had to do about 6 patches to get it to .09) that came with with my Fujitsu scanner (a very good product by the way). Now, there had been no security updates for 7.09 for months and months, which is the reason I bought pro. Lo and behold, three months after after acrobat 8 pro is released (you can't buy standard for the mac anymore; that would be too cheap!), Adobe releases 7.1, which has security updates. This seems like absolutely unethical behavior. Now that 9 is out, with useless features (how many users really need to put flash in their adobe documents? Come on! And a lot of this collaborative stuff was in Adobe 8.1 already), they can end-of-life the 7 series. So security updates will come out quickly for 9, and slowly for 8.1 (I bet). The cost for me to update my several month old Adobe Pro? $159. $159 for an update! Geez, generous. This program not only eats money, but devours memory and disk space like a champ. Avoid, avoid, avoid. I'm sure 9 will be worse. And it is unclear how to do the simplest operations. I was trying to add text, and it told me I didn't have the font in my system, therefore I couldn't add text. Well then give me an easily found setting to use some other font! And recently distiller crashed trying to print a simple document. Grrr, I hate this program, and this company. [alert admin]
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Friday, June 27 2008 @ 03:50 AM PDT
WeatherPop Advance 2.6.1 (Mac OS X)
Sorry, didn't mean to post twice
Well, at least I'm not alone in having this happen on VT! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, August 14 2007 @ 09:18 AM PDT
WeatherPop Advance 2.6.1 (Mac OS X)
I find this application perfectly reliable. I don't know what else you have in your menubar (I have default folder, stufit magic menu, the versiontracker search icon, pgp, clamav scanner, etc.) I have not seen weatherpop "disappear". It has not crashed on updating. It always shows up on login. It has given whatever temperature the source gives, and of course the sources are easily modifiable. I prefer weatherunderground. Weatherpop works in various cities in Germany, etc. It's a great app, and I like the visuals. I think it's a four star app but I'm giving it five because the one-star reviews are so ridiculous. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, August 14 2007 @ 08:56 AM PDT
WeatherPop Advance 2.6.1 (Mac OS X)
I find this application perfectly reliable. I don't know what else you have in your menubar (I have default folder, stufit magic menu, the versiontracker search icon, pgp, clamav scanner, etc.) I have not seen weatherpop "disappear". It has not crashed on updating. It always shows up on login. It has given whatever temperature the source gives, and of course the sources are easily modifiable. I prefer weatherunderground. Weatherpop works in various cities in Germany, etc. It's a great app, and I like the visuals. I think it's a four star app but I'm giving it five because the one-star reviews are so ridiculous. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, August 14 2007 @ 08:56 AM PDT
MacLockPick 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Someone ought to get a hold of one of these and let the folks who do rootkit analyzers add it to the list of baddies to check for. You know that one "law enforcement professional" can give a copy of this to one million crooks. There is no way the list of functions described could be performed on a Mac without being installed as a rootkit. The question is: how does the software install itself without an admin password? It has to modify files that one would not normally have access to. And if it just runs as a background process, activity monitor would show it, unless it somehow attaches itself to a normally running system process. Even more so if the computer is not running from an admin account (more and more it looks like we shouldn't be default running from an admin account). Man oh man do we not need this. And if it's really for "law enforcement", why don't they just send mail to police departments, rather than listing on versiontracker? Sick. Sick. Sick. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 28 2007 @ 06:28 AM PDT
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1.3.9 is out and you know where to get the binary..
There is no a.ramos page at apple at .mac anywhere, probably because he was distributing Mac binaries of CUPS (which Apple now owns...)
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Saturday, May 23 2009 @ 10:48 AM PDT
Seems to me the worst that would happen would be a core shutdown, which would be a bummer, but not cause permanent damage. You need it in the 90s to do that...
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Tuesday, September 16 2008 @ 06:40 PM PDT
Incorrect download URL here, AND at EMC...
The link below did not work for me. Dantz is now emcinsignia (.com) This transition is why the download links are having problems. I had more luck opening this page. http://emcinsignia.com/supportupdates/updates/ The download link for Mac Retrospect 6.x is at the bottom of the page. Also, it would download with Safari 3, but not Firefox 2, for some reason. Hope this helps.
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Tuesday, July 15 2008 @ 01:34 AM PDT
How do you "log in" to CUPS on your average, everyday mac? And now that the binaries seem to have been pulled from the link, can anyone tell me how to compile it?
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Friday, August 24 2007 @ 07:18 AM PDT
I would think it should be put in in either /Library/PreferencePanes (the library at the root level of the drive) or ~/Library/PreferencePanes (your library, i.e.) (Notice PreferencePanes the second P must be a capital, and there should be no space between the words If those folders don't exist you can create them with "New Folder". And then put the thing inside. A reboot should then bring the GPG option up when you open "System Preferences". It…
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Sunday, March 11 2007 @ 07:47 PM PDT
I would think it should be put in in either /Library/PreferencePanes (the library at the root level of the drive) or ~/Library/Preference Panes (your library, i.e.) If those folders don't exist you can create them with "New Folder". A reboot should then bring the GPG option up when you open "System Preferences". It will be at the bottom of the listings. Am I wrong about this? I don't use GPG but this struck me as being right.
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Sunday, March 11 2007 @ 07:46 PM PDT
Spoofing IE 6 by changing the user agent will not work on many sites. I have found it is really hit or miss.
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Sunday, March 11 2007 @ 09:23 AM PDT
ONYX is free and better than both. Or Applejack. (also free) For fontcaches, try Fontnuke (also free)
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Sunday, February 25 2007 @ 08:45 PM PST
Probably the Movie uses a double layer DVD. (8.0 GB approx). If your burner is single sided, you will need Roxio Popcorn (or some equivalent, now included with Toast 8.0) to compress the movie to play to fit on a regular single-layer (4 GB approx). (even this is not guaranteed, and of course the quality won't be as good) Check how big the Video_TS file is after you finish with Mac the Ripper. If it…
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Wednesday, January 17 2007 @ 05:23 PM PST
Not my default & Little Snitch: need DF 3
Default folder as version 3 does not use the "code injection" programming method that Little Snitch would complain about. If you want to use DF and Little Snitch at the same time, and keep Little Snitch looking for code injection, you need DF 3
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Tuesday, December 26 2006 @ 12:15 PM PST
