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User Name tyrayner
Member Since 2003-10-20
Total number of Feedback Posts: 42
Total number of comments: 14
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Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne 1.18 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
The game has become very laggy on my PB since installing Tiger. Hopefully Blizzard or Apple (most likely it's Apple's problem) will release an update soon. [alert admin]
Saturday, May 07 2005 @ 09:08 AM PDT
NetShade 2.1.1 (Mac OS X)
NetShade's proxy now runs on a new 2.1GHz Athlon with 1GB RAM. The old one was a 1GHz Athlon with 512MB RAM. The new server is mainly a preventative measure, to ensure that the proxy service continues to run fast as traffic increases. Response times should continue to be very fast well into the future with the new system. [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 29 2005 @ 08:55 AM PST
NetShade 2.1 (Mac OS X)
Regarding the post below: The reason NetShade's proxies are slower now than they were 6 months ago has nothing to do with NetShade, but simply with the fact that anonymous proxy usage has become extremely popular in recent months, and many of the public proxy servers on the Internet are over-trafficked. This page describes the situation in more detail: http://www.raynersoftware.com/netshade/faq.php Please note that the two major new features in this version, the NetShade Proxy and the Test Proxies feature were both developed specifically to address the performance issues. If you test the proxies after you launch the program, you'll have an up-to-date list of fast anonymous proxies. Or if you are a registered user you can just use the NetShade Proxy which is always fast. [alert admin]
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Monday, February 21 2005 @ 12:02 PM PST
NetShade 2.0 (Mac OS X)
I am happy to announce the release of NetShade 2. NetShade's new dedicated proxy server should fix the reliability problems discussed below. All registered NetShade 1 users will receive a free upgrade. [alert admin]
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Saturday, February 19 2005 @ 05:45 PM PST
NetShade 1.2.5 (Mac OS X)
Lately I've been experiencing some very poor reliability among the proxy servers that NetShade uses. I've been trying to get to the bottom of exactly what is going on, but these servers are out of my control and I haven't been able to find nearly as many reliable public proxies as there once were. NetShade's list used to contain 1000-2000 proxies, now it sometimes contains under 100, and some of those have a tendency to go down throughout the day. I am hard at work at what I think will be a permanent fix to this problem. I am developing my own proxy server, which I will run and maintain myself. This server will be accessible only to NetShade users. It will be totally anonymous and secure, and it should have excellent performance. I am sorry for the recent reliability problems - I did not anticipate them and I hope to have this upgrade ready within a week. The new version will be a free upgrade for all registered users. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 15 2005 @ 07:36 PM PST
AsyncSocket 3.12 (Mac OS X)
Excellent design, but there are performance issues 
I must amend my previous review now that I have made extensive use of AsyncSocket. I still recommend this class to anyone who is implementing sockets on a small scale, but if you're going to be dealing with large amounts of data and many simultaneous connections this class will not be adequate. There are major performance problems. Over the past few months I have been writing an OS X HTTP proxy server. Initially I planned on writing the socket functionality with SmallSockets, my old favorite, but the synchronous nature of SmallSockets was going to be a problem. So I wrote my connection classes using AsyncSocket, and I was thrilled with the simplicity and the incredibly clean and intuitive design of this class. When I started stress-testing my proxy server, however, it would sustain 40-50% CPU utilization when downloading large files over my cable connection. I ended up re-writing the program using SmallSockets and implementing threads manually to make it asynchronous. Now the CPU utilization never spikes above 2-3%. I wrestled with AsyncSocket for a long time trying to see if I could get the CPU utilization down, but I think it's a factor of the single-threaded, notifications-based architecture of this class. In conclusion, this does have the nicest interface of all the OS X socket classes. OmniNetworking is big and confusing. I haven't tried NetSocket so I don't know about that one. SmallSockets is the leanest and meanest, but you have to get a bit more low-level with it. If you're implementing sockets on a small scale, this is probably still your best and easiest choice. [alert admin]
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Friday, November 19 2004 @ 11:09 AM PST
Dead Days 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
This game truly has powers. It seems to have sucked the VT reviewers and the developers into its vortex of evil, and turned everyone into undead monsters! This is worse than a Slashdot thread! Reviewers: nobody's trying to make money off this program, cut it some slack. It was an entry into a contest. Developers: the reviews are for your software, not your personal character, so spare us the sob story about the nursing home. YOU SHOULD ALL BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES! :) [alert admin]
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Friday, November 19 2004 @ 10:47 AM PST
FastPic 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Very nice little program... I had to print out a contact sheet of a bunch of line art PDFs, and this just did it- fast and easy. [alert admin]
Thursday, November 04 2004 @ 10:05 AM PST
Print Window 3.0.2 (Mac OS X)
The problem with Print Window is that it's too much of an application. Printing a Finder window is about as simple as it gets, which is why it's so frustrating that Apple got rid of it. It would be nice if this app simply replaced the missing OS feature, but unfortuantely it is trying to do too much. I think 99% of the time, a simple old-style Print Window page is all anybody wants. But this app forces you through a lot of windows, options, and settings. It is also 4.4MB, and it uses 10.6 MB RAM (!!!) on my machine, even when idle. That's twice as much as Mail.app, for a Print Window function. [alert admin]
Tuesday, September 28 2004 @ 08:44 AM PDT
G-Force 2.6.4 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Would like to amend my previous review- I didn't pay enough attention to this program when I wrote that! Incredible visualizer- blows the iTunes default away. The depth and complexity is amazing, but more remarkable is the fact that it has a natural feel to it. The way things move is more organic, and less mechanical. The developer definitely had both sides of the brain working hard when he made this. [alert admin]
Tuesday, June 15 2004 @ 09:32 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by tyrayner [ Search for All ]
Crashes on startup on 15" Powerbook G4
That's the same system I have and it does work on mine. I have received a few reports of this, and it seems to be isolated to the 1.67 GHz PowerBooks. I am trying to track it down. -Ty Rayner
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Saturday, February 03 2007 @ 05:23 PM PST
Even the Registration Process is Defective
That message would have been coming from NetShade 2, not 3. It's coming from Kagi, which we no longer use to handle payments. You can receive a NetShade 3 registration code using this page: http://www.raynersoftware.com/netshade/upgrade.php .
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Sunday, September 17 2006 @ 04:04 PM PDT
That's a really obnoxious assumption for you to make. He did a good job with this program and it deserves good reviews. The visual artifacts are your graphics card BTW, not the program. You'll probably get the same type of thing with Google Maps or anything else that relies heavily on the GPU- I have a machine that does the same thing.
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Monday, January 16 2006 @ 09:21 AM PST
Make your own evaluations, but I sure do not find JAP better. But I'm biased of course.
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Thursday, June 16 2005 @ 08:19 AM PDT
I have heard reports of this problem... it is very rare. It seems that when a battery gets really low on power, or if a PowerBook's PMU isn't working properly, the capacity can be a really off the wall number. Usually it seems like batteries that are very worn out will report exceptionally high capacities. It makes no sense to me... but iBatt is reporting on what it gets from the battery. -Ty
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Sunday, April 10 2005 @ 01:26 PM PDT
It shouldn't be doing that if you tell your browser to remember the password. It sounds like your browser may be having trouble caching the login info... possibly permissions-related?
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Tuesday, March 29 2005 @ 09:02 AM PST
It will hide your IP unless your connection is going via HTTPS. Make sure that you are using a 2- or 3-star proxy, as these provide the highest assurance of anonymity. Your computer's IP will be undetectable via HTTP.
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Friday, January 07 2005 @ 09:35 AM PST
Yes your instructions are really quick and easy. Sorry, but I'm not accustomed to having to build my apps from source, satisfy dependencies, run an X11 environment, all so I can run a finance program that looks like Windows 3.1. This is why open source will always fail. Tech people for the most part have zero concept of usability. Open source is great for servers, compilers, etc... not for apps. Not until the freaks who…
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Tuesday, November 30 2004 @ 08:44 AM PST
iPhoto's redeye remover is great. It does a fantastic job preserving eye color, pupils, etc. Not sure why you think it's bad.
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Saturday, November 27 2004 @ 09:39 AM PST
Look, you developers are both acting like douchebags and you're not going to get anybody to vote for your game by coming in here and posing all this hateful negative garbage.
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Friday, November 19 2004 @ 12:09 PM PST
