Re: suncomm, drm, intel

news wrote:

Buzz said the following on 13/12/2005 03:37 pm:

Michelle Ronn wrote:



I do have some more information.

A guy that I work with has been playing with this as well. He actually spoke with "Rob" today over at Sunncomm tech support. Twice.

If you have a message from Rob before today regarding the support of this software, you will need to check again, as Rob now has new information:

Here is the detail:

Tiger "broke" the installation of the MediaMax software, and the devs are working to fix this.
This is not the same thing as saying the software does not work under Tiger.



But, the software does not work under Tiger. I don't see how that is different.


Something is installed and has an effect. this is what I am asking about. 

Broken software was installed and it had an effect. Why are you surprised?

This is what is different from 'doesn't work'. 

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.

We don't know if it doesn't work until we have some evidence from an investigation by people who are not proven liars, and who are not affiliated with the suspect software. If its purpose is other than what sony/suncomm/whover say it is, then we cannot know if it works, works partially or not at all. 

Who are the proven liars?

There is no reason to believe that the software does anything other than what they say it does.

It seems at this stage that it works at least partially because Michelle cannot see the same stuff she can before it installs. 

I fail to see the logic in your statement.


The fact that she had to install it manually is irrelvant to this, and the possibility that the sly fuckers have made a mistake is a good chance to find out what they are up to before they have it all as they want it. 

I fail to see the logic in your statement.


The intention was that it was to work under OS X, but now with Tiger it does not. The MediaMaxx software does a partial and incomplete installation. This would imply that the software would work under Panther, but I have not had the chance to check that out.

The "fix" to remove the software will not work, because the original software installation was incomplete.

Removing all visible components of the software does not fix the problem. A component or setting still exists such that whenever a CD with Mediamax is put into the system, OS X tries to execute START.APP on the CD.

William is waiting on either a working version of the software for Tiger that will install and then be correctly removed by the tool, or a patch that will remove this "alternate" functionality of the installation.



So, the software that doesn't work, but you installed anyway, hosed the system. What a surprise.


This is why I started a new thread. I'm not interested in the ramifications of Michelle's installation of the software, or whether she should have, or not, or what that proves to you about her, that is being covered in the other thread, where anyone who is interested in it can read it. It's just being disruptive to transfer the thing over to this thread. It's already covered there.

Andy 
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