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User Name tkzero
Member Since 2007-05-11
Total number of Feedback Posts: 17
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Skype 2.7.0.257 (Mac OS X)
It's been over 2 years since I reported an issue with Skype's use of proxies, and they still won't fix it. That's fine. It just means they lose 2000 users to their competitors. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 13 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Skype 2.7.0.257 (Mac OS X)
Nevermind this Address Book controversy - how about not even being able to do something as obvious as CONNECT. I reported a problem with Skype's proxy support 2 years ago and they still won't fix it. That's fine, it just means they lose out on the 2000 users where I work, while we go over to their competitors instead. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 13 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
LCD Scrub 1.0 (Mac OS X)
... a little early in the year for joke programs? And aren't they usually freeware?
( Ahem: http://www.behardware.com/articles/615-1/lcds-with-persistent-images.html )
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Wednesday, February 06 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Transmission 1.04 (Mac OS X)
From 0.9 onwards, Transmission fell into a dark period, where usably stable versions were few and far between, with crashing, hanging, transfer speed, Leopard-specific and portmapping bugs, and more than one bug completely corrupting currently downloading (or previously downloaded) torrents. I think 0.9.2 and 0.9.6 were about the only reasonable ones in a lengthy bad patch. More recently, tracker scrape bugs and more portmapping issues have affected 1.x. It was a real shame, considering how amazing 0.8.2 (the last one before the darkness) was. If you look at your peer list, it's not unusual to see users still staying with 0.8.2. With 1.0.4, for me (and I realize it might not be the same for everyone) it seems like Transmission is finally back to its old glory. Stable, fast, easy to use. If you've been holding off on upgrading Transmission, particularly if you're a 0.8.2 user, have a look at 1.0.4 (by all means backup your current version before you do). I think you'll be pretty happy. [alert admin]
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Sunday, February 03 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
PithHelmet 2.8.2 (Mac OS X)
2.8.2 will actually let me install it on my 10.5.1 (9B18), but Safari (3.0.4 [5523.10.6]) doesn't show anything to do with PithHelmet. It's not in the Preferences window or the Safari menu, and nothing's being blocked. I removed all of SIMBL and the PithHelmet bundle, reinstalled and nada. I don't get an error as Safari starts either, which usually happens when it's newer than PithHelmet can handle. [alert admin]
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Saturday, February 02 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Transmission 0.95 (Mac OS X)
0.95 has a major bug which causes it to chew up all your hard disk space, well beyond the total size of the Torrent (eg: a 3GB torrent takes up the last 11GB of the drive). It also has a habit of downloading without actually writing anything to disk. Stay away. [alert admin]
Saturday, December 08 2007 @ 01:34 AM PST
iHook 1.1.1 (Mac OS X)
Very useful tool. Our software deployment tool (not radmind) isn't overly Mac-smart, but I've been able to extend it and make it more useful with some creative scripting, particularly using the command-line installer, and leveraging iHook as the front-end. Only thing is that the icon creeped a few people out, so I changed it to something generic. I also used Dockless on it, so help prevent people cancelling actions by force quitting iHook, and to make it look more integrated into the system. [alert admin]
Sunday, November 18 2007 @ 07:27 AM PST
Transmission 0.93 (Mac OS X)
I'm afraid this is Transmission's last chance with me. I like it a lot as an application - it's lightweight (esp compared to Azureus), has all the features I'm after and a nice interface, but the 0.9x series has been a disaster, and has cost me money, GB of data, and a lot of time. It's all very well to use "free" software, but it doesn't make sense when that "free" software costs you, in one form or another. I want it to work. I want it to be back to its former glory. But if this mess keeps up, I've got to cut my losses and move on. [alert admin]
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Monday, November 12 2007 @ 03:17 PM PST
Yahoo! Messenger 3.0b2 build 75170 (Mac OS X)
Honestly... kind of frustrating.
I appreciate that they are actually working on it - it hasn't been abandoned like we thought it was around the 2.x timeframe - and they are adding features, like WLM interop, improvements to block the ever-present spammers, history archive, and so forth. But this beta cycle's been going on for 16 months (first beta: June 26, 2006). But there haven't really been *that* many new features. I keep running up against feature limitations all the time, like voice calls, and I guess there must be some kind of image sharing (as opposed to file transfer) feature in the Windows version? Because I've certainly had people asking me why I don't accept their <whatever> that they're trying to initiate. Don't get me wrong - it's appreciated, and Microsoft haven't added any actual, real features to their Messenger for Mac for, well, it's gonna be counted in years, not months, and they still can't/won't fix a SOCKS proxy bug that's been in there for 3 years that prevents all 5000 computers in my corporate network from connecting (happily, Windows users can't connect either due to another bug). But how long is this beta cycle supposed to take? Yeah, they could just label them 3.0.1, 3.0.1.2, 3.0.1.4, 3.0.2, 3.0.2.1 as if they were full versions. But when you run them, you realize that they are indeed betas. There have been, and still are, features that are unimplemented or incomplete (history archiving was a non-functional mockup in earlier builds). Like I said, it's just frustrating. Particularly when the Windows one has progressed from 8.0b1 to 8.1.0.421, spanning 15 versions. They will no doubt include security fixes, but they cover 2 significant milestones: 8.0 and 8.1. So, when do we get our milestone? [alert admin]
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Saturday, October 27 2007 @ 01:19 PM PDT
Lingon 2.0 (Mac OS X)
I don't mean to be critical or anything, but I don't understand why this would need to be 64-bit. One of the things I can see happening with Leopard out is people getting unnecessarily hung up on apps being 64-bit, when it's really only needed for accessing large amounts of memory (>4GB) or handling massive datasets: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/64bit.html All Lingon does is build small plist files, like, <5KB, and load and unload them out of launchd. [alert admin]
Friday, October 26 2007 @ 09:46 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by tkzero [ Search for All ]
It's open-source. It may never reach 1.0. But that doesn't mean the same thing as a commercial product. Open-source software is almost always undergoing changes, even daily. VLC Media Player is as stable, or even more so, than other "1.0" products.
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Thursday, February 28 2008 @ 05:47 AM PST
More like Thunderbird than Classic Eudora
P.S. The Classic Eudora code is worthless. No open-source project in 2008 is going to want to deal with code that goes back to the 1990s, that was *barely* made Carbon compliant; it would need to be scrapped completely and rewritten from scratch in Cocoa. Look what Microsoft got themselves into with Office. If Qualcomm didn't want to do it, what makes you think anyone else wants to?
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Saturday, February 23 2008 @ 03:33 AM PST
More like Thunderbird than Classic Eudora
And why wouldn't (and shouldn't) it be more like Thunderbird, a program that is being actively developed, based on modern standards, and almost infinitely extensible via add-ins, than Eudora, a program that never fully migrated to Mac OS X, has not had one significant new feature in 6 years, is crash and corruption-prone, and still even uses resource forks? You're just lucky they didn't completely abandon both you and the Eudora nameplate.
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Saturday, February 23 2008 @ 03:26 AM PST
Of course, the main reason you _wouldn't_ use TVShows is because it hasn't been updated since well before Leopard was released. People have been reporting issues with it, and there's still no update. ted actually is compatible with Leopard. BTW, I do have TVShows installed - I just can't trust it. So, if ted can help avoid the need to keep manually visiting eztv all the time, then so be it. I might take another…
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Monday, February 18 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Well, poo. Double entries. I got a database error the first time, quickly checked that it hadn't appeared anyway, since I know that happens (apparently it was there, but just sorted by some imaginary datestamp) and put in a second. What is up with VT lately? Database errors when you add an entry, everything set to midnight? I wonder if this comment will work....
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Wednesday, February 13 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Except that BitRocket hasn't been updated in 8 months (ie: since before Leopard was released) and seems to be falling into bit rot (pardon the pun). Even their forums appear to have been down for some time, suggesting the project has basically shut down. By all means use it if it works for you, but I unless the project suddenly springs to life again, I suspect you'll need to switch away from it before too long.
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Sunday, February 03 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
ffmpegX doesn't rip anything from protected DVDs, audio or video. You need a different program to do that, such as MacTheRipper. Once you have ripped it from the disc, you can put it into ffmpegX to encode it into MP3 or something. Two steps: rip, encode. Another option is to use Handbrake, which does handle protected DVDs and rips and encodes in the one program.
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Sunday, January 27 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Nice that it’s now freeware, but...
This is 3.1. You probably would have had to pay again to get a full version (3.x) upgrade anyway. Except it changed hands and now you don't. You bought 2.x and you used 2.x. This is 3.x. If it makes you feel better, stay on 2.1. Free things become pay-for, people complain. Pay-for things become free, people complain.
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Friday, January 11 2008 @ 10:15 PM PST
It just requires Leopard (presumably for something WebKit or even Clippings-related), it doesn't require Intel.
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Saturday, December 29 2007 @ 10:41 AM PST
If you could care less, then you should probably work on that little bit that still remains. But if you COULDN'T care less, then it's clearly mutual. BTW, don't even try that "young punks" thing, because age <> experience. However old you might be, doesn't qualify you as any more technically proficient, or that you should be listened to any more than anybody else. I know people who've been working with Macs since 1984 and they're only…
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Saturday, December 22 2007 @ 01:13 AM PST
