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My macbook is runnign verrry slow and it needs to be cleaned up. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good disc utility application?

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CleanMyMac: http://macpaw.com/
Onyx: http://www.onyxmac.com/
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Has anyone used the mackeeper software?

Has anyone used the mackeeper software?

Short answer: I don't recommend it, but it's not "a scam" or malware, per se. If you use it, you may have some real performance issues.
Me: I was an actual MacKeeper user (paid version) for about two years. What follows is my experience and conclusions. I am not a paid reviewer, nor tech professional. I am an educator with about 15 years of experience using Macs. I am what most people would call a "prosumer," in that I know a good deal about my systerm, but am not a techie, anti-utility software zealot, etc. I have no affiliation with Zeobit (manufacturer of MacKeeper) nor any of its competitors.
I bought MacKeeper in 2011, and then upgraded last year. I used it to remove junk files and duplicates, and experimented with the anti-virus software. I didn't use most of the other features.
The problem: I am running a 2009 15" Macbook Pro 2.8GHZ Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 512GB HDD. Over the past year, it has been having major performance issues. Slowdowns, hangups, applications quitting and more were all becoming the norm. I deleted duplicate files and ran MacKeeper a few times a month. I also ran permissions repairs regularly (disk utility). I looked for the cause of the slowdowns everywhere, from too many user accounts being open, to resource hogs. I decided that MacKeeper's Anti-Virus software was just taking up too much RAM and CPU, so I disabled it. I continued experiencing slowdowns and started monitoring my available RAM with a freeware app called Memory Clean. It often reported that I had less than 500MB available, even with very light usage, application wise. After "cleaning" memory, I could get my available RAM to about 1.5GB, max. I struggled with these issues for a year or more, and was about ready to concede defeat and buy a new machine. I figured my MBP was over four years old, and perhaps running Mountain Lion and normal wear/tear were just too much.
This morning, I noticed that the biggest resource hog on my system was a process called "MacKeeper Helper." The process relaunches even when it is forced to quit. It was consuming over 100MB of RAM and up to 99 percent of my CPU at times! I also noticed a process called "anti-virus" that also could not be quit, and was consuming over 100MB of RAM itself. I started researching how to kill these processes, and was introduced the the Great Online MacKeeper Controversy. Here is what I learned:
Some in the Mac community have pure hatred for this product (and some hate all like it).
There were numerous user reports of it slowing down systems
Zeobit seemed to be guilty of questionable ethics, particularly in its advertising.
There was no way to stop MacKeeper Helper and Anti-Virus processes from running with deleting the entire application.
I wasn't the only one annoyed by MacKeeper's system pop-ups, trying to sell me something I already bought.
The software got good professional reviews, even from well-respected publications (e.g. MacWorld)
It is often confused with Mac Defender, which WAS malware. They two are not associated.
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What Should Yo Do? You'll find a lot of controversy out there between professional reviews, ethically dubious paid reviews, Zeobit's own defense through public statements, and Mac users themselves. Some users like it, and swear up and down they are real people. Others are extremely angry and hate the product with the passion of 1,000 burning suns. All I can do is tell you my experience and make the following statement:
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Has anyone used JAAS with WebLogic?

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Basically the problem is this: the plug-in LoginModule model of JAAS used in WebLogic (with EJB Servers) seems to allow clients to falsely authenticate.
Let me give you a little background on what brought me to this. You can find the WebLogic JAAS example (to which I refer below) in the pdf: http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs61/pdf/security.pdf . (I believe you want pages 64-74) WebLogic, I believe goes about this all wrong. They allow the client to use their own LoginModules, as well as CallBackHandlers. This is dangerous, as it allows them to get a reference (in the module) to the LoginContext's Subject and authenticate themselves (i.e. associate a Principal with the subject). As we know from JAAS, the way AccessController checks permissions is by looking at the Principal in the Subject and seeing if that Principal is granted the permission in the "policy" file (or by checking with the Policy class). What it does NOT do, is see if that Subject
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private PasswordCallback strPass;
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I think the key here is to understand JAAS's plug-in security model to mean:
(Below are my words)
The point of JAAS is to allow an application to use different ways of authenticating without changing the application's code, but NOT to allow the user to authenticate however they want.
In WebLogic's example, they unfortunately seem to have used the latter understanding, i.e. "allow the user to authenticate however they want."
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even be used on the back-end of an RMI (RMI-IIOP/JEREMIE) application.
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LoginModule, LoginContext, CallBackHandler, CallBacks. Then they can put
their info into those, and everything is handled server-side. So they may
not even need to send a Subject across anyways (but they may want to as
well).
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off track with this one. I think figuring out how to do JAAS as though
everything were local, and then putting RMI (or whatever) on top is the
first thing to tackle.

Send this to:
newsgroups.bea.com / security-group.

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Has anyone used Aperture 2.0 with 8800GT?

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Has anyone used the QuickUSB module (Bitswise Systems) to interface to a USB Camera via IMAQ for USB?

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axRegister(serial code here)
end
Then, on your Record Button, something like this:
on mouseUp me
--start recording session - using 400k as maximum here
errOpen=axOpenRecorder(400000)
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put errOpen
--save the new audio as a file
errRecord=axRecordSoundToFile("soundName","c:\path\to\soundfile.wav")
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then make sure you close the recorder in stopMovie
on stopMovie
axCloseRecorder()
end
You can also make a Stop Recording button that has code like
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errStop=axStopRecording()
put errStop
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Re: Interfaces in Forte - has anyone used them?

We are making use of interfaces extensively and have never had the
slightest problem. Interfaces do not cause any overhead, since they are
mainly a means to support type checking by the compiler. At run-time the
interface does not appear any more.
Using Forte 3.0.F.2
General wrote:
>
We are embarking on the analysis phase of a large pay/personnel project. =
We have been advised to use interfaces wherever possible, because they =
promote flexibility and reusability. I am fairly well convinced of the =
benefits of using interfaces - they appear to have a lot of advantages, =
and no drawbacks. However, I do wonder whether Forte's implementation of =
interfaces is stable and usable (..it was only introduced in version 3). =
If not, we may be better advised to use standard techniques.
If you have used Forte interfaces I would be interested to hear how you =
got on.
regards,
Tim Kimber--
Dr. Thomas Kunst mailto:[email protected]
sd&m GmbH & Co. KG http://www.sdm.de
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Eric,
You are correct, "manipulate anAIFace object" is not really the correct
way of thinking about what is happening. We are really manipulating an
instance of an object through an interface.
In regards to your other statement: "if Project C needs visibility to B,
it must have B as a supplier Plan." Forte does not force this to happen
when you are using interfaces, which is what causes the problem. Let me
expand on my initial example and add enough detail so that you can create
the problem, which surfaces as a deserialization error:
Project A (No Supplier Plans)
Defines Interfaces: UnitIFace with method GetValue() which returns an
integer
Project B (Contains A as a Supplier Plan)
Defines Class: Unit with attribute _Value as an integer and method
GetValue() which returns _Value. Implements interface UnitIFace.
Project C (Contains A as a Supplier Plan)
Defines Class: Square with method Calculate which accepts an
UnitIFace as an input parameter and returns an integer. This class needs
to be setup as a distributed object so that I service object can be
defined using this class.
Defines Service Object: SqaureSO using the Square class.
Project D (Contains B and C as Supplier Plans)
Defines a class or uses a window that creates an instance of Class B
and passes it to the SquareSO service object that sqaures the value and
returns an integer.
Once this is setup, use the running man to run everything locally. This
will run fine because the dependencies for the local partition end up
including Projects A, B, C and D. Next, run distributed and move the SO
to a remote partition. Now when you execute you will receive a
deserialization error. This happens because the dependencies for the
remote partition only included project A and C. The partition did not
have the necessary information to deserialize the underlying instance of
Class Unit that is referenced through the inteface UnitIFace.
The problem can be resolved by either adding Project B as a supplier plan
to Project C or ensuring that the interface and class are declared in the
same project as I suggested in my previous message. In either case, this
must be resolved by the programmer since Forte is not yet smart enough to
correctly resolve the project dependencies, even though all of the
information needed to establish the correct dependency hierarchy is
available.
Bradley K Wells
[email protected]
Strong Capital Management, Inc
http://www.strong-funds.com/
From: Eric Pereira
Sent: Friday, July 31, 1998 5:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Interfaces in Forte - has anyone used them?
Bradley,
Thanks for that descriptive note on interfaces.
I do have a observation : in that example you gave us, if Project C
needs visibility to B, it must have B as a supplier Plan. Therefore, I
don't quite understand how partioning classes in C would end up with a
run-time errror in distributed mode, given that B supplies C (something
you've perhaps missed out in your example ?).
Also, is it really possible to "manipulate AIFace objects" ? Interfaces
are'nt really objects, they just help implement a compile-time type
check.
Thanks.
Eric Pereira
Forte Consultant
----<snip>------------------
Example:
Project A - Contains AIFace
Project B - Contains Class B which implements AIFace, depends on Project
A
Project C - Contains Classes manipulating AIFace objects, depends on
Project A
This can run fine locally since the local partition has knowledge of all
the classes in A, B, and C. Now as soon as you throw a service object
on
classes on Project C and push them into a remote partition, your
application starts failing because that partition does not contain the
information form project B since there is no dependency on that project.
The partition needs the information from project B though since it
contains the definitions for the actual implementation objects, however
there was no way for Forte to determine that need when it generated the
partition.
This problem is initially eliminated by keeping the interfaces in the
same project as the underlying business objects. But once you start to
have interfaces implemented by multiple classes from multiple projects,
then this won't cover all the bases either. In any case, it is an issue
that you will need to consider at some level when using interfaces.
Good luck!
Bradley K Wells
[email protected]
Strong Capital Management, Inc
http://www.strong-funds.com/
From: "Ngai, Stuart" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:10:50 -0400
Subject: RE: Interfaces in Forte - has anyone used them?
With version 3G, you can not create an array of interfaces. I believe
Forte
will have that feature in version 4 (which is scheduled to be in
production
at the end of next year).
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Kunst [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 1998 8:52 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: General
Subject: Re: Interfaces in Forte - has anyone used them?
We are making use of interfaces extensively and have never had the
slightest problem. Interfaces do not cause any overhead, since theyare
mainly a means to support type checking by the compiler. At run-timethe
interface does not appear any more.
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