Curtis Thompson
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hello…
the “repair permissions” functionality is horribly named. permissions don’t get “broken” and cause damage, as this tool suggests.
that said, you do have a lot and it is odd that they aren’t going away. but your computer being sluggish is not necessarily related to that list at all. are you familiar enough with os x to check other logs to see what you are seeing there?
next time it’s slow, check your activity monitor:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342
and see if any specific app or thread is eating up cpu resources…that’s probably a good first step.
hope that helps!
sitruc
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hello…
there is no technical reason that leaving files on an internal hdd is bad. i have to assume that they meant security-wise that it could be lost if the entire computer was stolen? hard to say what the person talking to your boss about…
but no – there is no reason that you shouldn’t use the internal hdd slots if you have them…
sitruc
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how timely – ran across this article today…
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hello…
it is difficult to do and would require either software installed on your local machine to replicate it (at which point it is very easy, but that is what web browsers, etc. strive to avoid allowing sites to do, but security holes are out there) or it would require a very slick looking little web window that visually tricked you into downloading something, but even then it cannot install itself and you would be required to do that manually…
in mac land you are slightly less vulnerable, but that is more due to hackers not seeing enough of a market share to make exploiting holes worth it. but in general, you do have to trust that your os is patched up and will not allow this sort of thing which can ultimately only happen if a security hole has been found or you previously downloaded and installed some 3rd party tool that put a trojan horse on your system without your knowledge.
sitruc
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hello…
you could easily modify my code to do 3 effects, but i assume then that you’d have to have all 3 effects playing at the same time, unless they were triggered to play by clicking somewhere. still doable, though…
the audio tag will not work in any older ie version, so you will be stuck there. you might want to consider a player like this:
that you can control volume on via javascript – that is the key thing you need, which the html5 audio element does allow…but you won’t get full support with it…
sitruc
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hello…
well – you can always see what the update is and then not agree to it there and go to the respective website and get the file there…in this case, go to adobe.com and get the latest flash install from them that way?
additional security can also be provided via checksums – some downloads will show you a checksum value on the page, and then once you download the file, you can run the checksum locally to make sure they match – if they do, then the file is unaltered. here’s how you do that:
https://www.bresink.de/osx/sha1.html
adobe doesn’t offer those, i don’t believe, but certainly you would feel better getting it from their site as opposed to the random dialog that pops up, which i do agree is always in theory something that could be replicated…
(but to note, of course – a checksum doesn’t help if the site you are on is the hackers to begin with, but if you trust you are on adobe.com (again for example), then it is a useful tool to verify a file to be the same as the one they wanted to give you)
hope that helps!
sitruc
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hello (again)…
this was an intriguing one that i figured would be fun to figure out…here’s what you wanted to do using the html5 audio tag and jquery:
https://sitruc.com/cow/audio_distance/
basically the distance between the mouse coordinates and the center point of the square are calculated and then converted to a volume, at which point the volume of the audio object is adjusted to that number.
note that only opera, firefox and google will support the audio tag fully – if you wanted to do something that was more universal, you’d have to find an audio playback tool that allowed for volume to be set via javascript access. note also that you don’t need to have the controls there – i just have them showing for the sake of example.
(you might also need headphones to fully experience the volume shift – it is mildly subtle with the example audio i used)
hope that helps!
sitruc
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hello…
wow – sorry. i’m feeling rather dense but i’m still not much closer to following what you want to do… 🙁
sitruc
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hello…
don’t know of a plug in or existing script, but you can use javascript (or jquery on top of course) to get mouse coordinates pretty easily. then you could calculate how far away from your point that was to determine volume. the last step would be to use either html5’s audio tag (not fully supported, mind you) or a 3rd party player where you could control volume via javascript and adjust it accordingly based on your calculation of distance in the first part…
that’s _how_ i’d do it – if you aren’t inclined to program that sort of stuff then i’d have to defer to a suggestion of an existing tool, but this sounds specific enough that i’d guess you’d not find much… :-/
hope that helps a bit?
sitruc