You Must be Joking. - pwargo

Wow, such an astute developer. Especially the bit in the description of the current version where you rip the bullet items right from the page mentioned in the comments.

Also, about the "I don't see your name on any software" comment: Guess what, you won't see my name on any as well - Nor do I make my own cars or televisions. Software is for the consumer, not the developer. And, if you go by number of downloads, you're fooling yourself. I download quite a bit of software to eval for my users, and use very little of it.

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Tuesday, December 27 2005 @ 11:05 AM PST

You Must be Joking. - alphasubzero949

You really are full of yourself.

Tell you what, I downloaded your dmg.zip twice (why you packaged it twice like that is beyond me) since the first time around it refused to mount...are you going to boast about the two added hits to your download counter?

Now let's move onto your wonderful EULA. I don't even know where to begin in pointing out the ridiculousness of it. I'll let others read it and judge for themselves. Remember kids, all of that legal mumbo jumbo for a script that you could do with one line in the Terminal, and it's a no-brainer:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/* /System/Library/Caches/* ~/Library/Caches/*

Oooh, but how dare anyone learns this on their own from digging into your scripts...

Tell me; what exactly can you improve on that command besides your doo-dads about clearing caches on multiple machines (which you shouldn't even be doing in the first place)? Please do enlighten me and the rest of us.

Everyone else reading this?

As if that weren't bad enough, installing demands an admin password without an explanation as to what it's really going to do. Anyone with half a brain knows not to readily submit such a password without understanding what exactly the piece of software intends to do with the privilege escalation. So to take care of that (which may be violating his precious EULA), we go digging inside the installer package and have a look at CleanCachesBySW.info inside the localization folder and note the NeedsAuthorization flag. Change it to NO. Then, to be sure that this wonderful program won't go screwing with areas of the system you don't want it to go, you'll need to head over to Info.plist in the Contents folder and change the path to say...your home folder (hopefully in a non-privileged sandbox account).

While you're at it, bust out Pacifist and have a look inside the package.

Now that the installer has been disarmed, try actually running it and see what you get. Really, do it. You just might be surprised (or not).

He wants your admin password so that he can exploit Apple's built in Installer tool to install a simple script that could have easily been done with one command in the Terminal...or better yet by physically going to the Cache folder and removing the problematic file(s) in question. And you don't need a script or program to do it (along with the reasons of why you shouldn't).

Bottom line: You are one pretentious developer to be discrediting me for being what I am...a conscientious consumer who won't stand for bad and misleading software. I'm actually helping other Mac users (if that's what you wanted) by pointing them away from this garbage.

PS...what exactly have you done for this to be warranted version 3.0 beside your laughable EULA and 'bug' fixes?

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Friday, January 06 2006 @ 03:24 AM PST