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Starry Night 6.2.3 (Mac OS X)
. So far no one at Imaginova has offered any help to those of us with G4s whose programs were killed by the 6.2.3 update. Below is a log of my attempt to run 6.2.3: > Last login: Sun Mar 30 02:15:46 on ttyp1 > Welcome to Darwin! > Beowulf:~ dmanasco$ /Volumes/Arthur/Starry\ Night\ Pro\ Plus\ 6/Starry\ Night\ Pro\ Plus\6.app/Contents/MacOS/Starry\ Night; exit > -bash: /Volumes/Arthur/Starry Night Pro Plus 6/Starry Night Pro Plus 6.app/Contents/MacOS/Starry Night: Bad CPU type in executable > logout > [Process completed] It's obvious that they left out the G4 code. When are we going to see an update that includes the G4 code? -=-Dennis . [alert admin]
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Sunday, March 30 2008 @ 12:33 AM PDT
Starry Night 6.2.3 (Mac OS X)
. So far no one at Imaginova has offered any help to those of us with G4s whose programs were killed by the 6.2.3 update. Below is a log of my attempt to run 6.2.3: > Last login: Sun Mar 30 02:15:46 on ttyp1 > Welcome to Darwin! > Beowulf:~ dmanasco$ /Volumes/Arthur/Starry\ Night\ Pro\ Plus\ 6/Starry\ Night\ Pro\ Plus\6.app/Contents/MacOS/Starry\ Night; exit > -bash: /Volumes/Arthur/Starry Night Pro Plus 6/Starry Night Pro Plus 6.app/Contents/MacOS/Starry Night: Bad CPU type in executable > logout > [Process completed] It's obvious that they left out the G4 code. When are we going to see an update that includes the G4 code? -=-Dennis . [alert admin]
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Sunday, March 30 2008 @ 12:33 AM PDT
Starry Night 6.2.3 (Mac OS X)
Killer (or maybe assassin) upgrade 
. I was using Starry Night 6.2 and thought it a pretty good program (except for all the star databases they've removed in the last few years...). (I've used earlier versions since the 90s.) Then the 6.2.3 "update" was offered. It totally destroyed my ability to use the program. The program doesn't even bounce in the dock anymore. To add insult to injury: I complained about the upgrade's destruction of my program to the Starry Night Users Group. My post was never posted or sent to the other members. Obviously this is a "User" mailing list tightly controlled by the corporate interest, rather than the user interest. This is the post I made to the (alleged) "User" List for Starry Night: At 10:01 AM -0500 3/6/08, Dave Whipps wrote: >> We've confirmed that there is a problem with 6.2.3 on (Macintosh) G4 processors on any version of OSX. Read it again: "there is a problem with 6.2.3 on (Macintosh) G4 processors on any version of OSX." "Problem??" Totally disabling a product is a "problem"? It's a disaster. "Any version of OSX?" That means that the upgrade was _never_ tested against G4 Macs using OSX. How incredibly stupid is that?? This sort of quality-control failure is absolutely unconscionable. My complimentary "update" of Starry Night made the program totally non-functional. My program has been killed by the "update." Dead. Useless. It doesn't even bounce in the Dock. This problem _must_ be fixed quickly, without my re-installing the original and destroying my modifications. It is absolutely amazing to me that Starry Night would release an "upgrade" that completely disabled the program for so many users. -=- Dennis ( Yes. If you can't tell: I'm MegaPi$$ed. If I can't download something within the next few days that makes it all better, without reinstalls and partial restores from backup and etc., then I'm going to be: Mega SCREAMING Pi$$ed. Then I'm going to pursue a secondary career in on-line software commentary... ) . [alert admin]
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Tuesday, March 11 2008 @ 01:14 AM PDT
Starry Night 6.2.3 (Mac OS X)
Killer (or maybe assassin) upgrade
. I was using Starry Night 6.2 and thought it a pretty good program (except for all the star databases they've removed in the last few years...). (I've used earlier versions since the 90s.) Then the 6.2.3 "update" was offered. It totally destroyed my ability to use the program. The program doesn't even bounce in the dock anymore. To add insult to injury: I complained about the upgrade's destruction of my program to the Starry Night Users Group. My post was never posted or sent to the other members. Obviously this is a "User" mailing list tightly controlled by the corporate interest, rather than the user interest. This is the post I made to the (alleged) "User" List for Starry Night: At 10:01 AM -0500 3/6/08, Dave Whipps wrote: >> We've confirmed that there is a problem with 6.2.3 on (Macintosh) G4 processors on any version of OSX. Read it again: "there is a problem with 6.2.3 on (Macintosh) G4 processors on any version of OSX." "Problem??" Totally disabling a product is a "problem"? It's a disaster. "Any version of OSX?" That means that the upgrade was _never_ tested against G4 Macs using OSX. How incredibly stupid is that?? This sort of quality-control failure is absolutely unconscionable. My complimentary "update" of Starry Night made the program totally non-functional. My program has been killed by the "update." Dead. Useless. It doesn't even bounce in the Dock. This problem _must_ be fixed quickly, without my re-installing the original and destroying my modifications. It is absolutely amazing to me that Starry Night would release an "upgrade" that completely disabled the program for so many users. -=- Dennis ( Yes. If you can't tell: I'm MegaPi$$ed. If I can't download something within the next few days that makes it all better, without reinstalls and partial restores from backup and etc., then I'm going to be: Mega SCREAMING Pi$$ed. Then I'm going to pursue a secondary career in on-line software commentary... ) . [alert admin]
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Tuesday, March 11 2008 @ 01:13 AM PDT
SoundConverter 20040108 (Mac OS X)
Licenses, fallacies and Customer abuse:
lroathe said : > I know of no software where you actually purchase the software The concept of ownership by purchase dates to (at least) the Magna Carta of 1215; the codex upon which American law lays its foundation. The DMCA appears to wash away many of these rights as they apply to software, but DMCA's legal status is tenuous when balanced against the Fair Use Doctrine. Hopefully the Supreme Court will wash away the DMCA, if Congress does not do so first. That aside, and to the relevant aspect of my original comment: Anyone who purchases software that arbitrarily and indefinitely requires multiple verifications of the Legitimate Owner's right to use the software is falling into a trap that will eventually deprive them of their ability to use the software. Any software author's repeated verification scheme is an ephemeral construct that will inevitably fail. Anyone who purchases products from such an author is embarking on a Fool's Errand which can only result in their eventual inability to use the product for which they paid. As to the actual software: It purports to be a 'Sound Converter' and yet does not recognize and convert System 7 sounds -- a common and useful commodity within the Macintosh Community. Surely this could not be the work of someone interested in the Macintosh. And then there is the inability to 'convert' from and to ring tones. Ring tone conversion is (especially among young people) one of the most demanded features of sound converters. Iroathe intoned in an aside: > sorry to butt into you app's thread here, but it'd got off into an area that > could be potentially harmful to all software authors. How is it 'potentially harmful to all software authors' to point out the worthlessness of the constraints imposed by a single one? Do all software authors demean their Paying Customers by dictating only a transitory capability to use their programs? I think not. [alert admin]
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Sunday, January 11 2004 @ 04:23 AM PST
SoundConverter 20040108 (Mac OS X)
Yet another program that uses a paranoid 'phone home' copy-protection scheme that Robs the Paying Customer should anything happen to the author. Aside the rude, unscrupulous and potentially illegal use of the Customer's resources this undisclosed and devious strategy shows a fundamental misconception about program usage and ownership. Software authors such as this should get a clue: The Purchaser of the software is the Owner of their copy in perpetuity, to do with for their personal use as they so desire, regardless of changes to their computer system or their non-simultaneous use on multiple computer systems. Any perversion of this principle is not only unacceptable but _will_ eventually result in the Customer losing their ability to use the software. Then the Legitimate User will have lost their investment due to Fraud. Having a program phone home to verify itself, or tying it to a particular system configuration, becomes an act of Larceny upon the User when, inevitably, the programmer's ability to provide re-authorization is lost. And this from a so-called 'Sound Converter' that doesn't recognize System 7 sound files and refuses to convert ring-tones to other formats? That is not only Pathetic, it is essentially Useless to much of it's target audience. [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 10 2004 @ 04:04 AM PST
Faith Converter 1.4 (Mac OS X)
This has to be the greatest religious-pomposity popper that I have ever seen. I can't wait to put some on-line religious texts through it. Neo-Trotskyism is great, but so is Juche. I agree: We need more dialects. To the quality of the software: Excellent, though some of the modules need to learn the difference between 'a' and 'an' when addressing a vowel. There are a few other linguistic quirks in the translations, but it was hard to spot them while I was laughing so hard. I _SO_ want to do some translations of TV preachers... -=-Dennis [alert admin]
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Friday, December 26 2003 @ 02:15 AM PST
Net Tool Box 2.4 (Mac OS X)
The developer just doesn't get it.
ANY program that phones home, for ANY reason, without the user's knowledge and consent needs to be exposed, publicized and publicly reviled. With spyware, computer co-option and identity theft reaching epidemic proportions the producer of any program that steals information from or about its users needs to be driven out of business as quickly as possible. And with the maximum amount of public opprobrium, so that others dare not follow in their footsteps. [alert admin]
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Thursday, August 07 2003 @ 01:35 AM PDT
Step On It! X 1.5 (Mac OS X)
just expect you to buy it cold? I don't think so! Four stars for being an interesting, if quirky, game under OS 9. Minus three stars for not having an OS X demo to download. (Would have been minus six stars, but one star is as low as I can vote.) [alert admin]
Monday, September 02 2002 @ 02:18 AM PDT
Kick Butt 1.0 (Mac OS 9)
game where we blow up vegetarians and ecologists. Now that I would buy. Well, maybe not, if it was a piece of slug-ware like this. Stupid politically correct game wrapped in programmatic incompetence. Sheeze...Give me a break! [alert admin]
Saturday, May 18 2002 @ 02:53 AM PDT
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