On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Chris Suter wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Matt Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote:Then shouldn't you be able to determine if they are using a hackintosh bythe 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 failgracefully?Of course, but we don't support Hackintosh's so we don't test on them andthey 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 ofdoing 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
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