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AudioSlicer 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)

Uh oh...  

Your "adverts" on audioslicer.sourceforge.net violate SourceForge's terms of use, specifically this one:

7. NO RESALE OF SERVICE You agree not to sell, resell or offer for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Services, use of the Services or access to the Services. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, July 06 2005 @ 09:39 AM PDT

XCopy 1.0 (Mac OS X)

Not ready for prime time  

This looked promising, but has a fatal flaw: there appears to be no way to connect to a SSH sever on an alternate port (i.e. other than 22). There's no UI for entering a port number, and entering the server name in <server:port> syntax didn't work. The Preferences menu is always dimmed. The XCopy Help menu, which is always active, just tells you that help is not available. (There is no documentation whatsoever with this product.) The 'Pay For XCopy' menu item is enabled, of course. Worse, the app hung almost immediately, just by opening and closing a second session window. The shareware nag sheet that opens on top of every new window got orphaned and only a force quit would dismiss it. Tsk. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, January 18 2005 @ 01:48 AM PST

MP3 Trimmer 2.1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)

"Phoning home" without my permission is not OK  

After my initial scare (has my machine been "owned" by this app, and is this a set of login names for script kiddies to use?), I realized it was probably a list of blocked registration names. Whatever its purpose, the point is that this program goes out and phones home without telling me, and there appears to be no way to turn off this behavior. Other programs that silently "phone home" have taken a lot of flak for it, and deservedly so. I don't see that there's any reason to trust (or use) a program that does something behind my back, no matter how good its features may be. [alert admin]

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Monday, November 01 2004 @ 07:52 PM PST

MP3 Trimmer 2.1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)

Beware! This version "phones home" to get a list of names!  

I noticed some unusual network activity with v2.1. Turns out that it tries to contact a server on launch to get this file: "http://d1o257.telia.com/~u60606689/trimver_check.htm". If you load that page in a web browser and view the page source, you'll see it contains the following:

CV:2.1
DT:2004-10-28
TX:/NOP[CR]
INPHER[CR]
NOWHEREMAN[CR]
CENDRYOM[CR]
MOONDARK[CR]
HACKUSER[CR]
ANONYMOUS[CR]
ATLANTIS[CR]
MACINTOSH[CR]
PABLO[CR]
PYRUS MALUS[CR]
SBOX[CR]
MACSERIALJUNKIE[CR]
MASTERMIND[CR]
EOD //

WTF is this?! Someone has some 'splainin to do here, as this looks really suspicious. [alert admin]

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Sunday, October 31 2004 @ 01:51 PM PST

mkdmg 0.1b (Mac OS X)

Why?  

You may not have realized that Mac OS X already provides a full-featured command-line tool to create disk images, called hdiutil.

/usr/bin/hdiutil create -srcfolder inFolder outImage.dmg

will do the same thing, won't leave visible temp files around in the destination directory (unlike this tool), and even has a man page. [alert admin]

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Friday, August 20 2004 @ 11:43 AM PDT

HenWen 2.0.4 (Mac OS X)

Re: "Could not bind..."  

If you're getting that error message, it's almost certainly because your user account isn't a member of the adminstrative group "admin". Run /Applications/Utilities/NetInfo Manager.app, click on "groups" in the list, then click the "admin" group. Is your account name listed in the value for the 'users' property? If not, you need to add yourself to that group (e.g. if the value is "root", change it to "root, yourname"). [alert admin]

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Thursday, April 01 2004 @ 10:49 PM PST

KisMAC 0.05c (Mac OS X)

About the @LongLink file...  

That file is created by 'tar' when the KisMAC installer (or anything else that uses 'tar') unpacks a file from the archive whose full name is too long. The file itself contains the name which was too long. You can avoid the problem by using 'gnutar' in place of 'tar'. Edit the installer script at /Volumes/KisMAC/KisMACInstaller.app/Contents/Resources/install.sh. Look for the line that starts with /usr/bin/tar, and replace that part with /usr/bin/gnutar. Save changes, run the installer, and voila, no more @LongLink file. [alert admin]

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Thursday, July 17 2003 @ 10:21 PM PDT

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