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User Name Ilgaz
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CNET TechTracker app 1.0 beta 2 (Mac OS X)
I remember commenting on the CNET VT blog "Guys, they aren't stupid to try re-inventing wheel" and "download.com is always windows user thing, they must know mac users will stick with vt" seriously, 10.5 only? integrated into browser? I am afraid to dig how you integrated with browser, seriously. OK , MU deserves our support, not this. [alert admin]
Thursday, September 24 2009 @ 05:48 PM PDT
CNET TechTracker app 1.0 beta 2 (Mac OS X)
It should elevate permissions if needed
It tries to write to "/Library/" (bad choice IMHO, should be ~/Library) and as I am not an administrator, it fails without prompting "you must be authenticated" kind of window. CNET, I hope you don't use Windows developers for this. Also, still dreaming Mac users will like/use download.com ? Hope not. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 23 2009 @ 07:38 PM PDT
Flip4Mac WMV 2.3.0.11 (Mac OS X)
They also abuse Apple's Installer.app
I guess Apple never thought of it... They do a lame "I am installed" trick when final screen appears as they get the "payware" ads from remote server, by abusing installer.app in a way that never seen before. So, final screen also serves them as "I am installed" phone call. I now have very serious concerns about using their professional products if ever needed, the company looks like completely infested by MS mind lately. They weren't like this before. [alert admin]
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Monday, September 21 2009 @ 04:31 PM PDT
Apple Java for OS X 10.5 Update 5 (Mac OS X)
If you run pre 10.5.x , disable java updates
I think time has come for Oracle/Sun to either take over PPC Java security fixes or send Apple a court order to EXCLUDE Java from PPC machines via software update just like they did to Microsoft in JVM 1.1 ages. Currently, all pre 10.5 machines are under risk. Java is one of the biggest assets of Sun which is acquired by Oracle and they should never, ever allow Java to be dubbed as a security risk. This is an accident waiting to happen, I am just saying... 10.4.11 (and previous of course) users should disable "java applets" (disable Java in Safari and other browsers) unless Apple ships an update. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 06 2009 @ 06:15 AM PDT
Print Therapy 6.0.7 LE (Mac OS X)
10.5.8 update issue is bad and sad (fixed though)
Is Apple that busy that they put code signatures to wrong place? I was absolutely amazed that dozens of files were indeed at wrong place and print theraphy fixed it. Unfortunately, Mac blogs&support sites are busy with Snow Leopard so I didn't hear about it too. Having no code signature is one thing (very common), having a tampered (in OS eyes) code signature is another. It would really matter in case you granted access to your printer application in Leopard firewall... Anyway, thanks to this expensive (!) utility, I am aware of it and first time in my life, I am off to download&reinstall Leopard 'combo' update 10.5.8. Who knows what else they missed? ps: Don't let 'repair permissions' fool you, OS X doesn't touch a bit of home permissions which really matters to Printers and pro apps like Adobe stuff. It is not the same as the OS X permission repair. [alert admin]
Tuesday, September 01 2009 @ 03:58 PM PDT
Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 (Mac OS X)
Of course, a tool which has NO real life usage beyond couple of bribed media will be "editors pick" on CNET owned Versiontacker. Good going CNET. (have not tried selected since this junk doesn't support PPC) [alert admin]
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Saturday, August 08 2009 @ 05:57 AM PDT
VLC Media Player 1.0.0rc4 (Mac OS X)
They better explain why they don't support pre 10.5
While it is not "loved" like VLC, Quicktime is a huge Framework, does huge amount of work even while if you never used that "player" everyone seems to hate. It comes from Apple which makes living by selling OS and hardware. Quicktime, as for today, supports OS X Tiger. Supporting 10.3.9 (Panther) is really almost impossible. Only the tools carefully designed not to be hit by OS update issues can still support pre 10.4.0 (Vuescan etc.) What I try to say is, VLC guys must really explain, in technical sense: Why 10.4.11 is not supported. Who/What to blame? All would say "It must be Apple, stupid" while I don't really think so. Apple maintains, enhances a gigantic media framework named Quicktime. Almost whole OS X can't function without it. I heard they loved GCC 4.2 in XCode 3.x update and they tried to drop PPC support for it while way more complex sources (e.g. KDE 4) doesn't only compile fine with gcc 4.2, even compiles better. KDE 4 is huge... Real huge and yet they didn't say "no 10.4.11" or "No PowerPC". There are still people who can't use Leopard on their Macs. Apple didn't abandon them (at least, yet) and open source tool abandons them. That is the thing I am concerned about. Not like I am stuck in Tiger or something. They also give a very wrong signal like... People could think "Well, after a while, it will be snow leopard only... lets stick with closed source which still supports our configurations". [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 17 2009 @ 08:38 PM PDT
Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7 (Mac OS X)
Tip for powerpc users installing manually with disk image
Guys, I think one should give it 10 mins or 15 mins before pressing "Restart" button on installer as there is something going on with spotlight syncing and/or kextcache process. On 3 different powerpc macs (quad to mini), I have lived some sort of loginwindow endless loop and it was fixed if I gave it some time after "Installation Finished" and waited for mds/kextcache/mdworker processes do their jobs. It shouldn't be needed, I know but I thought I better share this experience. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 13 2009 @ 11:36 AM PDT
Google Earth 5.0.11733.9347 (Mac OS X)
People hinting how to remove the injected updater misses the point
Guys, if someone is knowledgeable enough to figure a admin owned launchd process running every 2 hours, he sure knows how to remove it and thanks to Unix/launchd logic, it is relatively easy even for Google megalomaniacs. The issue here is the attitude... "We will install an updater which will run as root owned process every 2 hours. If it is not good with you? Go away, you can't use our free software you beggar". The reason of updater being coded instead of using de-facto standard Sparkle framework which everyone uses? Is it because Google has too much money in hand looking to waste it re-inventing the wheel? It is not just that! Mr. Google has some nice plans for us and they want some update framework which can also update... kernel drivers! For example, Apple is such a moron to run "software update check" as normal (non super) user, they don't know a thing! Sparkle original coder and contributors didn't have this neat idea of running SUID binaries on a Unix system just to check updates. It took 20 years to really take off and 5-6 years for Microsoft to gain everyone's (including their customers) hate but for Google, it could be very fast... Just like they took off very fast. Landing could be same speed too and it won't be comfortable for them. For people wondering where "keyhole" like terminology comes? Well, Google Earth was originally "Keyhole" application funded by CIA. Choosing _this_ application to force a updater installed should be used in PR classes as a lesson about how to make your users super paranoid. It is not spyware though. It is just a huge, stupid security risk. Nr. 1 rule on security is, never run anything as super user unless it is definitely needed _and_ enabled by user. Look to "Sharing" prefs of OS X, you will see Apple has disabled them by default. It is not like Apache will be hacked just by showing a homepage, it is just running it without need and opening a socket to internet as superuser is a stupid, needless security risk. [alert admin]
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Friday, May 08 2009 @ 03:53 PM PDT
Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.0r596 (Mac OS X)
Get the full version if you have any connection faster than 33.6 K
This is "slim" installer and it is almost guaranteed to download other components from within the plugin itself creating issues all the time. If you are interested in shockwave and use it frequently,I suggest this full version which you can pick from the form below (it is drop down form, doesn't ask for mail or anything) http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/otherversions/ Careful about CPU/Arch choice and picking "Safari" or "Firefox" has NO difference at all, OS X uses a central place for plugins, come on Adobe people! [alert admin]
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Friday, May 01 2009 @ 02:24 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Ilgaz [ Search for All ]
not "updates", it is "applets", the tiny things running inside your browser without your permission.
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Sunday, September 06 2009 @ 06:16 AM PDT
Buying Intel Xeon workstation for DivX
Well, if you speak about money, I actually use 3ivx MPEG4 plus on my Macs and I won't touch any of this previous spyware distributors codec even while it is FREE.
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Thursday, September 03 2009 @ 02:30 PM PDT
Old way was security risk and here is what happens when your repair permissions on 10.5+
Apple was blindly repairing/changing permissions based on receipts (bom to be exact) pre-Leopard. As times have changed and Apple's popularity on the rise, people started to theorise about abusing permissions repair (most of times, done needlessly) of non suspecting users just by "planting" a .pkg on receipts or more basically, adding some data. So, now Leopard makes sure the "permissions" it repairs are _absolutely_ the files it installed at first place or the stuff coming with valid…
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Sunday, April 26 2009 @ 07:39 AM PDT
Yes, send all information to MS which even Apple doesn't want
Did you actually see what is being sent to MS for their "online update" mechanism? Trust me, even Apple, vendor of hardware and OS X doesn't ask for such information. They do all UI tricks to make it completely opt-in. MS added that preference because they figured a privacy lawsuit or scandal coming. Version 1 sends all data without even asking you.
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Sunday, April 26 2009 @ 05:25 AM PDT
They show the future _right now_
While Adobe Flash, Adobe Air, Real Player and even the open source, free developers support PPC, take time to support it and even ENHANCE their support as we see on multi CPU/core aware Adobe Flash 10... MS dropped support to PPC as early as version 2. It really shows 3 things: 1) Spammers became more clever/pro and MS has a campaign to promote their Mac software using illegal channels like comment spam (see the 5 star reviews…
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Sunday, April 26 2009 @ 05:22 AM PDT
We don't hate it, some of us can't install it even if we want to. There is also very serious doubt about future support since MS is a company known to apply "bait and switch" tricks to Mac users. They do it right now, MSN Messenger 7 latest version is broken with Safari 4 beta installed, they don't fix couple of lines and update it, for MONTHS. About your language... Sorry if we don't care some NASA…
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Sunday, April 26 2009 @ 05:18 AM PDT
Also look at Microsoft messenger before hating (!) Yahoo
I won't flood here with my message, if you check my message on this site about Microsoft Messenger which is a far more popular download than Yahoo one, you can see that we should be supporting Yahoo in case of this client. http://www.versiontracker.com/php/feedback/article.php?story=20090425115432364 At least they converted that joke like carbon application to something cocoa and added features. About the "full" windows specs? Do we really want them? I mean themes, flash animations etc? It better support the…
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Saturday, April 25 2009 @ 11:59 AM PDT
Never throw away any original disks, at least image them
If you really hate having a original CD/DVD, you could at least image it using the built in Disk Utility to your hard disk. I can't understand how come one clearly makes a mistake and flames software vendor. In fact, I believe, if you have explained the situation nicely to them, they could even send you a replacement CD/DVD. Lets say if your system fails to boot and you threw away your leopard/tiger DVD. Will you blame…
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Tuesday, April 07 2009 @ 04:38 PM PDT
You know they pay for the OS and DVD right?
The OS they use on DVD (and other vendors) is directly coming from Apple, in strict terms which disallows even editing its startup files. It is not free, it is not like they make a new boot disk and ship it for money. Also the DVD costs, post &packaging costs. At least they aren't like some other vendor who wants to charge $100 for updates/year. They provide a free patch for people who already has working DVD/CD. Please look…
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Tuesday, April 07 2009 @ 04:33 PM PDT
You should have contacted support
I had a horrible quality, total hack like Taiwan cheap "Genius" scanner and while I wasn't even a "pro" user, Mr. Hamrick responded my mail about a similar issue like yours in hours. It turned out to be a hardware issue. I mean, Hamrick.com isn't like those multi billion companies sending your mails to some template wizard in Bangalore. Next time you have issue, you better contact him, you will be surprised how fast it is fixed.
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Monday, April 06 2009 @ 05:12 AM PDT
