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Black & Bleu

Black & Bleu

error codes, causes on common & possible cures

Version:  10.0

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Great Candidate for PerversionTracker ...

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Contributed by: WCityMike Sunday, June 15 2003 @ 07:46 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOS,MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Recommend Product: NO

PerversionTracker really needs to get a hold of this one. You folks are charging $30 for an application that serves as a directory of Mac OS error codes. That's an overpricing that's so bad it's insulting. The interface is ugly as sin -- hideous as heck. And in Mac applications, that's actually a big concern. The information appears to be greatly incomplete: a casual perusal of the "A"s indicated a lot of green-on-black (again, hideous choice) messages that basically said, "We don't know anything about this, but we're putting it in so we sound like we're completist." This is yet another example of Shareware so-called "developers" who try to figure that since we Mac users pay more for our hardware, we'll pay more for crap like this. Sadly, for the most part, they are right.   

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Great Candidate for PerversionTracker ... - wighta

"The interface is ugly as sin" as the B&B 8.0 application runs natively on all 3 of 68xxx, PowerPC, and OS X systems so the user interface has to be limited to what will work under Mac OS 7.0 which is still used by a lots of Mac users.
The developers of B&B limited their detailed explanations to error codes that are actually encountered in the real world, and provide a free service to *anyone* who to wants a detailed explanation to an error code not already detailed in B&B. So in practice, you are rather unlikely to encounter error codes that are not already detailed in B&B. I have been a beta tester for some versions of B&B.

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Sunday, June 15 2003 @ 10:58 PM PDT


Great Candidate for PerversionTracker ... - WCityMike

Your explanation seems highly doubtful, although as I have no programming experience, I can't really speak to anything but the general feeling that it's not valid. As for it looking like crap because the developers believe it has to have the ability to run on a chip set (the 68xxx) that was superceded a very, very long time ago, and on an operating system version (7.0) which is over 13 years old ... well, suffice it to say that few end users are going to agree with that decision. And, again, the application supposes to details error codes. The "free service" isn't what's being judged here on VT: it's the application. And the application is crap -- and, as others have pointed out, has been superceded by an Apple-provided file on our own computers.

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Monday, August 11 2003 @ 10:17 AM PDT