back in the old days of the Apple ][, apps used to be able to check
the ROMS, specifically the bit that displayed "Apple ][" on startup
as the clones would normally have something different there to avoid
copyright theft being added to their list of crimes. I believe
Nintendo still do somet
On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:20 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:
On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Chris Suter wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Matt Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>wrote:
Then shouldn't you be able to determine if they are using a
hackintosh by
the descriptions of support requests th
are you familiar with the term "conflict of interest"?
On Jul 30, 2008, at 11:18 PM, CocoaDev Admins wrote:
this type of comment isn't productive or appropriate for the list.
scott [moderator]
On 30-Jul-08, at 8:06 PM, Matt Burnett wrote:
The OP needs to get off his high horse and come to t
On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Chris Suter wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Matt Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>wrote:
Then shouldn't you be able to determine if they are using a
hackintosh by
the descriptions of support requests they are submitting?
Sure, if customers are willing to d
this type of comment isn't productive or appropriate for the list.
scott [moderator]
On 30-Jul-08, at 8:06 PM, Matt Burnett wrote:
The OP needs to get off his high horse and come to the realization
that some people are a bit more clever than him (or Apple). But
anyways you guys all forgot
I'd just like to point out that since hackintoshes are not reliable
machines, it seems a bit odd to search for a reliable way to identify
them.
Dave
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Chris Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was just making the point that it would be useful to be able to detect
>
Why not have the error messages simply be error messages, and leave
out the "clever" which I think is always a bad idea, anyway, in almost
any domain? Have it report an error that has a number indicating a
possible hackintosh, and double check if it is a hackintosh issue, or
a bug in your
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Matt Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Then shouldn't you be able to determine if they are using a hackintosh by
> the descriptions of support requests they are submitting?
Sure, if customers are willing to disclose that they're running on a
Hackintosh which is
Then shouldn't you be able to determine if they are using a hackintosh
by the descriptions of support requests they are submitting? If not
are you sure your code checks return values and is designed to fail
gracefully?
On Jul 30, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Chris Suter wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Michael Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, John Joyce
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anybody have a means or a tool for checking for hackintoshes?
> > I really don't approve of such things and would like to leave clever
> > m
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, John Joyce
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anybody have a means or a tool for checking for hackintoshes?
> I really don't approve of such things and would like to leave clever
> messages on my own software if it is run on a hackintosh.
I really strongly advise a
On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:06 PM, Matt Burnett wrote:
The OP needs to get off his high horse and come to the realization
that some people are a bit more clever than him (or Apple).
... unnecessary and unproductive.
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The OP needs to get off his high horse and come to the realization
that some people are a bit more clever than him (or Apple). But
anyways you guys all forgot something big, virtualization. Can't OS X
Server 10.5 be (legally) virtualized? Any hardware checks will either
break in a virtualiz
rwise.
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] On Behalf Of Devon Ferns
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:42 PM
To: Tim McGaughy
Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Subject: Re: Checking for hackintosh
Someone hacks the OS X kernel to bypass Apple's ch
On Jul 30, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Sean McBride wrote:
On 7/30/08 2:06 PM, Abernathy, Joshua said:
Seeing as how the OS itself thinks it's running on Apple hardware, I
have no idea how you, running on the OS, would detect otherwise.
And any solution one comes up with is likely to be fragile and
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Charles Steinman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I really don't think that's a good idea. Hackintosh builders will just hack
> around it if they care, and you're just asking for the test to get tripped up
> and start accusing legitimate Mac users.
Agreed. A compa
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, John Joyce
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I really don't approve of such things and would like to leave clever
> messages on my own software if it is run on a hackintosh.
So what if you "don't care for such things." You are setting yourself
up for a major liability
--- On Tue, 7/29/08, John Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anybody have a means or a tool for checking for
> hackintoshes?
> I really don't approve of such things and would like to
> leave clever
> messages on my own software if it is run on a hackintosh.
I really don't think that's a go
On 7/30/08 2:06 PM, Abernathy, Joshua said:
>Seeing as how the OS itself thinks it's running on Apple hardware, I
>have no idea how you, running on the OS, would detect otherwise.
And any solution one comes up with is likely to be fragile and possibly
fail with new genuine hardware. IMNSHO, you
Hi,
There are a couple of ways to definitively test for a hackintosh. You
could look at the IO Registry for unusual hardware configurations. But
as it happens, the latest Hackintosh kernels all use custom Machine
Type strings. So you can test to see if it's one of the known Mac
models, an
hy
Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Subject: Re: Checking for hackintosh
Someone hacks the OS X kernel to bypass Apple's checks for a legitimate
Macintosh and usually posts it to some p2p site where people
steal(copyright infringe) it and run it on their home build PCs.
Devon
Tim McGa
Someone hacks the OS X kernel to bypass Apple's checks for a legitimate
Macintosh and usually posts it to some p2p site where people
steal(copyright infringe) it and run it on their home build PCs.
Devon
Tim McGaughy wrote:
On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:22 PM, John Joyce wrote:
Does anybody have a
On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Tim McGaughy wrote:
On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:22 PM, John Joyce wrote:
Does anybody have a means or a tool for checking for hackintoshes?
I really don't approve of such things and would like to leave
clever messages on my own software if it is run on a hackintosh.
On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:22 PM, John Joyce wrote:
Does anybody have a means or a tool for checking for hackintoshes?
I really don't approve of such things and would like to leave clever
messages on my own software if it is run on a hackintosh.
What's a hackintosh?
_
Does anybody have a means or a tool for checking for hackintoshes?
I really don't approve of such things and would like to leave clever
messages on my own software if it is run on a hackintosh.
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