Safari bug with privoxy and keychain (Version 3.0.4 (523.12.2))
Hello,
I use privoxy to forward some requests to another proxy server located at the university, in order to access online some publications. Of course, this requires a password, which is stored in the keychain as "localhost (<university login>)", for the location "http://localhost:8118". Now, this works fine with Camino; but Safari would store the same password again (which it does for every password; very annoying), and from that moment, a lot of programs want to access this password: the apple SoftwareUpdateChecker, Adium, Shimo, etc.
Looks like a MacOS/Safari problem to me - all these applications, I think, want to access the web, hence use the proxy server I set. And they find a keychain password for that proxy. But - why do they want to use a password they are not prompted for? I'm quite sure that these programs don't request URLs for which I set a forward to the university proxy.
Camino, by comparison, prompts me to confirm the (stored) password only when I access one of the "forwarded" URLs. As for Safari, I can't tell, maybe it sends the password to privoxy all the time - but again, how, if it is not prompted for any PW?
Has anyone experienced this?
Regards,
-br
Security Update 2007-009 1.1 has just been release and purports to be a fix for this very issue.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307224
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Enormous bug with intel and hdv
dear Friends,
I discovered a bug testing my octocore intel with compressor.
Unfortunately, encoding a file from hdv to m2v, an intel processor is 4 times slower than a non-intel processor,
...only in this case...!
An 1,30 minutes clip needs 12 minutes with a power book and the same file needs 45 minutes with an octocore 3.00 ghz...i tried other solutions swapping the disks (system and storage) from one machine to another but the problem remain in the same machine....
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Wierd bug with menus and subtitles on Intel mac
I have found DVDSP4 will not let me place buttons on a menu!! The mouse clicks don't do anything in the menu viewer. I suspect some system incompatibility is this is also why I can't drop a subtitle into the subtitle streams either with DVDSP4 enev though it works fine on DVDSP3 on my G5 machine. Has anyone seen this strange bug before?
I use a Wacom Intuos tablet, have a four-core Intel MacPro with 4GB of RAM, and use a LOT of graphic applications (FC5, Motion, Maya, Poser, Vue, Illustrator, Photoshop, and many molecular modeling packages)
Has anyone seen this problem before (and is there a remedy)?
Thanks
tom hsuDo you have the Universal Version of DVD SP? I know you mentioned it is academic but did not recall if you have the proper one for the Intel Macs(?)
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Hello to everyone!
The situation is:
I've made an AIR Application, inside of that is running a native process - EXE file.
I'm using Flash CC as IDE and tried to use compile that as EXE with AIR 2.6 and 3.6 - results are same.
So I've insert inside a checking if Native Process is supported or not and the Native process is supported all the time.
When I've just installed the application and run it - the very first attempt is good - everything is working as a must: internal EXE is called by my Application with necessary parameters as many time as I'm need.
However if I'll close the App and then will run it again - internal EXE is not starting at all, doesn't depends on number of attempts to re-start of the App.
So only way is to uninstall, install it back and then you'll be one more session of successful internal EXE-requests, till the next re-start of the App.
That's it.
I've tried to "google it" but unsuccessful. Probably the bug is very rare.
Help me please?
Update: at compilation with Flash CC IDE it's working all the time with no any issues.
Update-2: when I'm running installator-EXE, there is going a notification "Same version is installed, etc." and then selected "Run Now" - there is also working with no problems.Well, I've found the solution and answer by myself and here is it please:
In case with same situation as above you need to add just one line in your AS3-code
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Bug with resourceManager and menuBar
I have a menuBar with two sub-items ("French", "English")
Of course, each of them set localChain to either "fr_FR" or "en_US" to change the language used for the entire UI.
When i do this, everything gets translated alright expet the top menu items ! So in the code below, "Options" and "Help" stays in english after a switch to french. (The default language for my app at startup is english)
To test this problem, i placed a button outside of the menu structure with action (click="localeChain=[fr_FR];") and it works fine !... Everything, including all the menu items gets translated !
Any suggestion as to how i could get arround this bug ?
Thanks !
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" xmlns:components="components.*" width="100%" height="100%" applicationComplete="init()" backgroundGradientAlphas="[1.0, 1.0]" backgroundGradientColors="[#03006B, #03606B]" layout="absolute">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.events.MenuEvent;
import utilities.ResourceUtility;
import mx.resources.ResourceBundle;
import mx.controls.Alert;
import mx.core.IFlexDisplayObject;
[Bindable]
public var frToggled:Boolean ;
[Bindable]
public var enToggled:Boolean;
private function init():void
ResourceUtility.setResources(resourceManager);
switch(resourceManager.localeChain.toString())
case "en_US":
enToggled=true;
frToggled=false;
break;
case "fr_FR":
enToggled=false;
frToggled=true;
break;
private function menuClickHandler(event:MenuEvent):void
var menuItem:XML = event.item as XML;
switch ([email protected]())
case "options":
break;
case "english":
resourceManager.localeChain = ['en_US'];
break;
case "french":
resourceManager.localeChain = ['fr_FR'];
break;
default:
break;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:MenuBar id="myMenuBar" labelField="@label" height="20" x="0" y="0" itemClick="menuClickHandler(event)" fontWeight="bold" width="100%">
<mx:XMLList>
<menuitem label="{resourceManager.getString('myResources', 'TOOLS')}" view="tools">
<menuitem label="Options"/>
<menuitem label="{resourceManager.getString('myResources', 'LANGUAGE')}" view="language">
<menuitem label="{resourceManager.getString('myResources', 'FRENCH')}" view="french" type="radio" groupName="lang" toggled="{frToggled}"/>
<menuitem label="{resourceManager.getString('myResources', 'ENGLISH')}" view="english" type="radio" groupName="lang" toggled="{enToggled}"/>
</menuitem>
</menuitem>
<menuitem label="{resourceManager.getString('myResources', 'HELP')}" view="help">
<menuitem label="{resourceManager.getString('myResources', 'ABOUT_RS')}" view="about"/>
</menuitem>
</mx:XMLList>
</mx:MenuBar>
<mx:Button label="Switch to french" click="localeChain=[fr_FR];"/>
</mx:Application>
And here is the content of the ressource file (ResourceUtility.as)
package utilities
import mx.resources.IResourceManager;
import mx.resources.ResourceBundle;
public class ResourceUtility
public static function setResources(
resourceManager:IResourceManager):void
var myResources:ResourceBundle;
myResources = new ResourceBundle("en_US", "myResources");
myResources.content["HELP"] = "Help";
myResources.content["ABOUT_RS"] = "About RS";
myResources.content["TOOLS"] = "Tools";
myResources.content["LANGUAGE"] = "Language";
myResources.content["FRENCH"] = "French";
myResources.content["ENGLISH"] = "English";
resourceManager.addResourceBundle(
myResources);
myResources = new ResourceBundle("fr_FR", "myResources");
myResources.content["HELP"] = "Aide";
myResources.content["ABOUT_RS"] = "À Propos de RS";
myResources.content["TOOLS"] = "Outils";
myResources.content["LANGUAGE"] = "Langue";
myResources.content["FRENCH"] = "Français";
myResources.content["ENGLISH"] = "Anglais";
resourceManager.addResourceBundle(
myResources);
resourceManager.update();There does appear to be a bug / feature / limitation with the MenuBar. If the dataProvider changes when a menu is open the change is ignored and the menu is not updated; this avoids sub-menu controls from being orphaned. It is fine for the sub-menus because they will be updated the next time they are displayed, but it means the top-level items become stale.
A workaround would be to change your locale once the menu has closed. A callLater worked for me:
itemClick="callLater( menuClickHandler, [event] )"
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Hello,
I came up with a way to use drag-and-drop interactions that will take advantage of file input so that I may create a drag-and-drop interaction that uses one draggable object over and over allowing multiple scoring/tracking possibilities. Example use...is having the draggable object be dynamic in that it randomly changes its text so that a learner can drag a term it's possible classification.........thus allowing the possibility of having many terms easily loaded without having to redo a drag-and-drop interaction for each needed terms/classifications updates/changes.
My Issue: When using a variable to represent the text for a draggable Smart Shape object, I'm getting the error message "undefined" when, clicking/pressing on the object, as well as during the drag of the object. This issue occurs when publishing the project in an HTML5 format. Flash interestingly enough seems to work perfect...but we are not interested in publishing via Flash any longer.
To better help you explore this error message, I've set up a test project so that you can see when and how the "undefined" message shows up during a drag-and-drop interaction. I've also included the Captivate 8 project file used to make the exploration project I'm sharing in this post.
Link to Captivate project I created for you all to explore "undefined" error message": http://iti.cscc.edu/drag_and_drop_bug/
Link to this Captivate 8 Project file: http://iti.cscc.edu/drag_and_drop_bug.cptx
It's pretty interesting how things react in this demo, please try the following actions to see some interesting happenings:
Drag the Yellow (or variable drag box) to the drag target.
Drag Black Hello square to Drag target and click undo or reset - watch the undefined message come up on the Yellow (or variable drag box).
Drag the Yellow (or variable drag box) to the drag target and then use the undo or reset.
Move both draggable boxes to the drag target and use the undo and reset buttons...
Anyhow, I know you all are sharp and will run the demo through its paces.
I'd really be very honored if anyone help me figure out how I could (when publishing out to HTML5) no longer have the "undefined" error message show up when using drag-and-drop with a variable for shape text. This technique has been well received at the college I work at...and I have many future project requests for using such an idea on a variety of similar interactions. I'd love see a solution or see if this might be a bug Adobe may be able to fix!
I tried to find a solution to the issue documented here for quite some time, but I was not able to find anyone with this problem much less attempting the idea I'm sharing in the help request - save the darn "undefined" message that comes up!
Many thanks in advance for any help and/or direction that you all may be able to provide,
PaulHello,
I just wanted to supply a minor update related to my drag-and-drop question/issue stated above:
I did another test using Captivate 7, and found that the undefined error (publishing as HTML5) does not appear and the variable data remains visible - except the variable data turns very small and does not honor any font size related settings.
I did go ahead and submit this to Adobe as a possible bug today.
Thanks again for any help related to this issue. If the issued documented above is solved, it will allow many amazing things to be done using Captivate's drag-and-drop for both regular type projects as well as interaction development for iBooks!
Matter of fact if this issue gets fixed, I'll publish a Blog entry (or video) on way's I've used Captivate's drag-and-drop to create dynamic learning activities for Higher Ed. and for use in iBooks.
~ Paul -
Possible bug with TREAT and EXECUTE IMMEDIATE
Hello, i experienced a strange behavior which seems to be a bug.
Consider following definitions:
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE T_Base FORCE AS OBJECT (
DummyProperty NUMBER
) NOT FINAL;
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE T_Child UNDER T_Base (
AnotherDummyProperty NUMBER
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION SpecificValidation (iValue T_Child) RETURN NUMBER IS
BEGIN
-- some specific validation is done here, not important for the example
RETURN NULL;
END;
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE ValidateIt (iValue T_Child) IS
lResult NUMBER;
BEGIN
-- The principle used here is that each client can have its own implementation of validation function, and when it does not exist, we do not care.
-- In reality we put functions and procedures into packages, I narrowed it to a minimal working example.
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'BEGIN :lResult := SpecificValidation(:iValue); END;'
USING OUT lResult, IN iValue;
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
IF INSTR(SQLERRM, 'PLS-00201') = 0 THEN
RAISE;
END IF;
END;
END;
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE Process (iValue T_Base) IS
BEGIN
-- in fact we know that iValue must be of typ T_Child, it is checked using IS OF ( ) operator and exception is raised if this check fails
-- This does not work for some reason.
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ValidateIt(TREAT(iValue AS T_Child));
END;
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE Process2 (iValue T_Base) IS
lChild T_Child;
BEGIN
-- The only difference here is that result of TREAT is saved to a variable.
-- This works as expected.
lChild := TREAT(iValue AS T_Child);
ValidateIt(lChild);
END;
In reality it is much more complex, I narrowed it to a minimal working example.
Now when running this:
DECLARE
lItem T_Base := T_Child(5, 2);
BEGIN
BEGIN
-- This call will end up with PLS-00306 error.
Process(lItem);
dbms_output.put_line('Process completed successfully.');
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
dbms_output.put_line('Exception when calling Process.');
dbms_output.put_line(SQLERRM);
dbms_output.put_line(DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_ERROR_BACKTRACE);
END;
BEGIN
Process2(lItem);
dbms_output.put_line('Process2 completed successfully.');
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
dbms_output.put_line('Exception when calling Process2.');
dbms_output.put_line(SQLERRM);
dbms_output.put_line(DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_ERROR_BACKTRACE);
END;
END;
then call to Process fails with PLS-00306 on EXECUTE IMMEDIATE.
The only difference between Process and Process2 is that in Process2, result of TREAT is saved to a variable of type T_Child.
Is this behavior documented somwhere or is it a bug?That's interesting. I would say it is, or should be, a bug.
Also interesting is, when I re-write your example to eliminate dynamic SQL and instead rely on dynamic method dispatch, the problem goes away... first, the changes:
drop type T_Child;
drop type T_Base
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE T_Base FORCE AS OBJECT (
DummyProperty NUMBER
) NOT FINAL
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE T_Child UNDER T_Base (
AnotherDummyProperty NUMBER
create or replace type T_Base_Processor as object (
dummyProperty number
, static FUNCTION GetClientProcessor(iClientId varchar2) RETURN T_Base_Processor
, member FUNCTION SpecificValidation (iValue T_Child) RETURN NUMBER
, member PROCEDURE ValidateIt (iValue T_Child)
, member PROCEDURE Process (iValue T_Base)
, member PROCEDURE Process2 (iValue T_Base)
) NOT FINAL
create or replace type T_Another_Processor under T_Base_Processor (
overriding member FUNCTION SpecificValidation (iValue T_Child) RETURN NUMBER
create or replace type body T_Base_Processor
is
static FUNCTION GetClientProcessor(iClientId varchar2) RETURN T_Base_Processor IS
BEGIN
return case
when upper(iClientId) = 'ADMINISTRATOR' then
new T_Another_Processor(null)
else
new T_Base_Processor(null)
end;
END;
member FUNCTION SpecificValidation (iValue T_Child) RETURN NUMBER IS
BEGIN
-- some specific validation is done here, not important for the example
dbms_output.put_line('T_Base_Processor.SpecificValidation');
RETURN NULL;
END;
member PROCEDURE ValidateIt (iValue T_Child) IS
lResult NUMBER;
BEGIN
-- No more need for dynamic SQL, instead rely on dynamic dispatch
lResult := SpecificValidation(iValue);
END;
member PROCEDURE Process (iValue T_Base) IS
BEGIN
-- in fact we know that iValue must be of typ T_Child, it is checked using IS OF ( ) operator and exception is raised if this check fails
-- This does not work for some reason.
-- It fails in EXECUTE IMMEDIATE with PLS-00306. I don't really get why, because ValidateIt accepts a value of type T_Child and it passes it to the validation procedure, which also expects value of type T_Child.
ValidateIt(TREAT(iValue AS T_Child));
END;
member PROCEDURE Process2 (iValue T_Base) IS
lChild T_Child;
BEGIN
-- The only difference here is that result of TREAT is saved to a variable.
-- This works as expected.
lChild := TREAT(iValue AS T_Child);
ValidateIt(lChild);
END;
end;
create or replace type body T_Another_Processor
is
overriding member FUNCTION SpecificValidation (iValue T_Child) RETURN NUMBER
is
begin
-- some other specific validation is done here, not important for the example
-- You could even call the overridden method as well using
-- treat(self as T_Base_Processor).SpecificValidation(iValue)
dbms_output.put_line('T_Another_Processor.SpecificValidation');
RETURN NULL;
end;
end;
And again with slight modifications, your test block:
DECLARE
lProcessor T_Base_Processor := T_Base_Processor.getClientProcessor('JOE');
lItem T_Base := T_Child(5, 2);
BEGIN
BEGIN
-- This call no longer throws a PLS-00306 error.
lProcessor.Process(lItem);
dbms_output.put_line('Process completed successfully.');
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
dbms_output.put_line('Exception when calling Process.');
dbms_output.put_line(SQLERRM);
dbms_output.put_line(DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_ERROR_BACKTRACE);
END;
-- Demonstrate dynamic dispatch by choosing a different processor
lProcessor := T_Base_Processor.getClientProcessor('ADMINISTRATOR');
BEGIN
lProcessor.Process2(lItem);
dbms_output.put_line('Process2 completed successfully.');
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
dbms_output.put_line('Exception when calling Process2.');
dbms_output.put_line(SQLERRM);
dbms_output.put_line(DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_ERROR_BACKTRACE);
END;
END;
T_Base_Processor.SpecificValidation
Process completed successfully.
T_Another_Processor.SpecificValidation
Process2 completed successfully.
Gerard -
Just got some bugs with Dock and Dashboard
Hi!
Been using my mac for 1 year now. Sudden some bugs just came by.
I was using two widgets; "Ordbok" and "TriTrans".
When I now try to use TriTrans I get this: http://bildr.no/view/75953 and I can't enter a search.
When I try to use Ordbok i get this: http://bildr.no/view/75954
I tried to make a new account just to see if I got the same problem and I sudden did. Then I went back to my main account and deleted the Dock, Desktop and Dashboard pref files (in Library/Preferences). Rebooted and tried again. Didn't work.
When I made a new account I also noticed that the Dock had an icon with the "question mark" (this ting: ?). When I hovered it I got: "iMovie". Some icons to the left I got a working "iMovie HD". Where does the iMovie (wannabe) icon come from? (It was a new account).
Anyways, someone now how to fix some of these?
Thanks!
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2 Ghz Intel Core Duo, 1 Gb RAMAhh, that solves my widget problem. Thanks!
Btw, someone who got any idea of the "question mark" icon I get in the dock when deleting the Dock config file or add new user? It says "iMovie" but beside it I got the "iMovie HD" icon, working. -
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I have had a similar problem. I have all my music residing on a NAS where I access it from iTunes (for managing my iPods/iPhones) and a Tivo PVR (which is connected to my house stereo system.) The problem is that Tivo does not recognize AAC. So I've used iTunes to create mp3 versions of all my purchased AAC music. Because the NAS is set as my iTunes media folder location, iTunes puts the mp3 copies back into the existing folder structure (which it keeps organised) on the NAS. Tivo accesses the NAS directly, over the network. But iTunes also puts the additional copy into the iTunes library which leaves me with multiple copies of the same songs on iTunes AND my iPods. Having multiple copies on the NAS (mp3 for Tivo and AAC for iPod) is OK: I've got plenty of space on the NAS and the Tivo doesn't 'see' the AAC files.
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What if I install from some repo "pacman -S app" and there are few versions of "app" and I don't concretize it for pacman? What version will it install? I know that with "-U" I can tell it what version to install. But how does "-S" behave without concretizing?
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pacman -S repo/program
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Stacking 3750 switches with EMI and SMI versions
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Is it possible to have in a stack Catalyst 3750 with EMI version and Catalyst 3750 with SMI?. In my case, it is a WS-C3750G-12S-E with WS-C3750-48PS-S. I didn't find clear information about this issue. I know different major releases are not compatible but nothing is mentioned about the feature set.
Thanks,
MONICAHi,
It's possible but not recommended. If you decide to do this you should buy 2 EMI so that if the master fails the backup can still route traffic. (Having 2 EMI is TAC supported, even if the rest is SMI - not sure about just having one EMI and one SMI)
HTH - plz rate if useful.
Andrew. -
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Recently I'm facing some freeze problem on my Lion when I opening Safari and Mail. It will freeze up my Mac and eventually shutting it off by the "hard way".
But today, my safari freeze once every 10times of opening (average) which is really annoying.
I have verify my disk verify whatever there have in disk utility. Reformated the hardisk, Installed Snow leopard and reinstalled Lion 3 times and it does not help the safari. And ofcourse I did whatever updates there have.
Besides, I have tried "APPLE HARDWARE TEST". everythings is fine here.
But when I create a new guest account on Lion, the safari there won't freeze and run smoothly. But I wouldn't want to move all my stuff there.
It's been really annoying since today as I hardly able to launch Safari and type this out.
PLEASE HELP ME ALL THE EXPECT OUT THERE !!!!Just for the record, this had nothing to do with Safari.
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