Evan Francois
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Leopard Security Update 2012-003
Hal Itosis reviewed on 14 May 2012
Unless there's a "new" PPC Flash plugin on the way from Adobe (which is doubtful), there wouldn't be much point to this. May as well just uninstall Flash instead.
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Text Tools
Hal Itosis reviewed on 04 Apr 2012
But —without even using it yet —so far I do have a comment to make: GOOD LORD this thing floods the system log file with a ton of needless chatter!!!!!! Averaging just over 250 lines per minute, every minute.
I like to keep Console.app open constantly (parked in space #5 to stay out of sight). But Text Tools is broadcasting so many messages that the Console.app icon practically never stops bouncing on the Dock (at least that was the case yesterday). And if I try to even look at the log for some other reason... the lines keep on scrolling by, filled with entries about MTLAgent. It's now afternoon here, and system.log has grown by almost 7 megabytes since last night.
Please make it stop.
Here's a small sampling (less than one second):
4/4/12 3:49:38 AM MTLAgent[147] com.apple.console Warning Injecting MTL into com.apple.finder...
4/4/12 3:49:38 AM MTLAgent[147] com.apple.console Warning Injecting MTL into com.apple.loginwindow...
4/4/12 3:49:38 AM MTLAgent[147] com.apple.console Warning warning: failed to get scripting definition from /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app; it may not be scriptable.
4/4/12 3:49:38 AM MTLAgent[147] com.apple.console Warning Injecting MTL into com.apple.systemuiserver...
4/4/12 3:49:38 AM Finder[126] com.apple.console Warning This app's Name is Finder, and its ID is com.apple.finder
4/4/12 3:49:38 AM MTLAgent[147] com.apple.console Warning warning: failed to get scripting definition from /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app; it may not be scriptable.
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True, it is a Console pref that we can turn on or off... but i normally like to keep it on, for monitoring purposes.
Cheers, thanks for the quick reply.
iBackup Viewer
Hal Itosis rated on 31 Mar 2012
[Version 1.100]
Cobook
Hal Itosis rated on 22 Mar 2012
[Version 1.0-beta13]
TotalTerminal
Hal Itosis rated on 10 Mar 2012
[Version 1.2.2]
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Google Chrome
Why is it always ".0" something?
Whatever happened to .1 and .2 and .3 etc.?
I have a feeling that Chrome is REALLY only at version 6.6.6
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So sorry, but that response totally failed to answer the primary question... i.e., why 'x.0' for all recent major versions? That system (skipping over all those intermediate stages) doesn't make a lick of sense... which is probably why you were unable to explain (unless perhaps Google is just trying to inflate Chrome's "value" mathematically, lol).
Thanks anyway.
BTW -without peeking -what version are you running? LOL. xD
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I never claimed performance was impacted... merely questioned Google's purpose. It certainly does appear their artificial numbering system was fabricated simply to drive up the version to a ridiculously high level as quickly as possible... for some 'reason'.
But apparently intelligent questions and observations anger (or confuse) you, so perhaps we both should await a more relevant response.
TIA.
Cathode
Hal Itosis reviewed on 28 Feb 2012
Can we cut back on the clock somehow?
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JDiskReport
Time Machine
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Adobe Flash Player
Hal Itosis reviewed on 27 Oct 2011
Flash is truly obnoxious.
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GraphicConverter
The entire "right section" is gonzo. I.e., the image data is missing info for size, resolution, format, length and compression. The histogram and the 100% slot are not functional. And the large preview is really ugly (fuzzy). Why? This wasn't the case before.
Files in the same folder which were saved with GraphicConverter display all the above just fine.
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The only clue in Console is several lines, all of which say:
10/11/11 2:16:40 PM GraphicConverter[644] com.apple.console Error +[NSString stringWithPascalString:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0xa0031238
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many thanks Thorsten,
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As far a "deleting the application prefs" goes, there are two unfortunate issues with that: it's a huge PITA and it only works temporarily.
It's a huge PITA because there are around 30 or 40 changes i make to the "defaults" in order to get GraphicConverter to look and act the way i prefer. (as you know, there are many MANY pref possibilities). Deleting the prefs means i need to go and retweak a whole bunch of of stuff (not just the browser section, but everything). But after all that retweaking, and after some time goes by, version 7.4.x reverted back to the same misbehavior described above.
So far, version 7.5 is doing fine... and i didn't even need to delete the prefs!!! (i.e., my first "test" was to see if it would misbehave while my prefs were already set to what i consider ideal... and it worked out right away).
Let's hope it lasts this time.
And thanks again Thorsten.
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