I hate Aladdin Systems, part 2
Fresh off my rant on Stuffit InstallerMaker, it turns out that Stuffit 8 for the Mac doesn't properly tag apps as executable. CFM-based apps are fine, Mach-O based apps are screwed.
What that means in plain English is that people who download the latest (and coincidentally Mach-O) MacMAME and decompress it with Stuffit 8 can not launch the app and are e-mailing me, very confused.
Apparently this behavior is a "fix" made by Aladdin at Apple's request, but honestly, how could they not have seen this coming? As if I didn't have reason enough to dislike Aladdin Systems before, I certainly do now. I swear to you - I'll make every effort to avoid their products from here on out. It'll be difficult, given how monopolistically widespread the .sit format is on the Mac, but by God, I'll seize on every opportunity to avoid it when practical.
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Hi Brad,
I'm really enjoying your blog. Would you mind making your RSS feed full content instead of partial content? That would make it a lot easier for me to read in my blog aggregator.
Thanks,
Steve J.
Posted by: steve jenson | October 5, 2003 12:44 AM
So you'll be sending out .dmg files? Sound like a winner to me. :)
Posted by: tim lindner | October 5, 2003 08:30 AM
Hi Steve,
I'm pretty new to blogs, RSS and all that other related stuff. I'll see if I can figure out how to do what you ask, but don't hate me if I can't. :)
Posted by: Brad Oliver | October 5, 2003 02:48 PM
Movable Type automatically outputs an RSS feed. In fact there's an even a link for it. Check under the links column and copy and paste the "Syndicate this site (XML)" link into your favorate RSS newsfeeder and you'll get it.
Alex
Posted by: Alex Lawrence-Richards | October 8, 2003 08:25 AM
Nevermind, read the question wrong. Brad, there should be an option inside MT that lets you change the way the RSS feed gets output if you haven't already. My bad.
Posted by: Alex Lawrence-Richards | October 8, 2003 08:27 AM
FYI, Aladdin just announced a patch for this problem:
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/10/08/stuffit/
I'm guessing this won't change your mind about their products :-) but perhaps it's worth knowing anyway.
Posted by: Matt Diamond | October 8, 2003 02:13 PM