On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Dan wrote: > A responsible programmer would have put appropriate sanity (sic) > checks in their code to make sure it DOESN'T LOAD if it's on an > unsupported configuration.
This is crazy. You're telling me that a software developer should go back and make certain that old releases (in this case FREEWARE) is compatible with newer OS's released later? Come on, give me a break! It's FREEWARE. Read the instructions before installing! > Farking a boot ONCE is forgivable. ONCE. But this is how many > releases since? I've been using Unsanity Haxies from the beginning and can't remember a single boot issue caused by their products when "used as supported". > I'm sorry. While it's great for users to read release notes and > such... Programmers are responsible for making their code SAFE, > period. Yes, but safe for the OS they were designed and supported to work with. In this case, the freeware program "Dock Detox" is supported for "PCC PowerMacs in OS 10.2, 10.3, or 10.4". If you use this as supported, it is SAFE period. If you don't read the compatibility page and install Dock Detox onto an Intel Mac or any 10.5 system, it will evidently "fark your boot". So what? It's older, unsupported FREEWARE. It was a relatively simple recovery, and a lesson was learned. I'd rather see the lesson learned than waste an Unsanity programmers time trying to idiot-proof freeware when they could be working on their "real" software. On the subject of Unsanity's responsibility, when Apple's Installer had bugs and wouldn't fix them, Unsanity did the right thing, they wrote their own installer and to this day, many other software companies use Unsanity's installer in preference to Apple's. Unsanity regularly reports numerous bugs in Apple code, and most goes unrepaired by Apple for long periods. Unsanity also correctly predicted the move to Intel CPUs almost 5 full years before it happened based upon Apple's hindering of OS X's code so that it wasn't optimized for RISC PCC CPUs, but rather always a CISC x86 CPU code base. Unsanity continues to provide useful products that "perform as described without issue" on OS's they're designed and supported to run on. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
