Re: Checking for hackintosh
Re: Checking for hackintosh
- Subject: Re: Checking for hackintosh
- From: Andrew Merenbach <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:26:44 -0700
On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:20 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:
On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Chris Suter wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Matt Burnett <email@hidden
>wrote:
Then shouldn't you be able to determine if they are using a
hackintosh by
the descriptions of support requests they are submitting?
Sure, if customers are willing to disclose that they're running on a
Hackintosh which isn't usually the case.
If not are you sure your code checks return values and is designed
to fail
gracefully?
Of course, but we don't support Hackintosh's so we don't test on
them and
they are different (especially where disk utilities are concerned).
I was just making the point that it would be useful to be able to
detect
whether you're running on a Hackintosh *if* there was a reliable
way of
doing it.
-- Chris
This thread, albeit only marginally-related to Cocoa, is an
interesting one. One solution (not saying that it'd "work" for
everyone) would be to abandon Hackintosh-*checking* code, but
install a menu item to send a system profile to you, via an online
PHP form or some such, along with a support request message. Thus
one need not program in potentially-fragile code, but one does get
to decide, per-support-request, whether a computer is legitimately a
supported machine.
On the other hand, it might be possible for a clever user to hack
your program and to send bogus information to your web form. This
would be Bad. But such a system might at least be a deterrent to
"Hackintoshers."
Cheers,
Andrew
While it may be poor form to reply to myself, I realize now my need to
clarify: this is a *menu item* that I am suggesting -- a voluntary
option. They'd still have access to one's support e-mail address.
It's simply that, if one has doubts, one can ask the customer, "Would
you be able to actually send me a system profile? I made it easy for
you with this menu item." And, lo and behold, your words come true --
they send you a system profile, you figure out whether they're using a
Hackintosh or not. It's still completely voluntary on their part.
But the functionality behind a "Support" menu item with an optional
system profile attachment seems to me like an ingenious idea with
which a third party might develop a framework. Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Cheers,
Andrew
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