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Friday, January 24, 2003

Well, hello my name is...

Simon for OS X.

It sounds just like the real thing. i.e. extraordinarily annoying.

Yet very addictive.

[annoying geeky stuff]

However, it's packaged as one of those self-destructing DMG (disk image) files which are now all the rage here in X land.

If you haven't seen one yet, it works like this: you download a disk image. You double-click the image. Rather than it mounting on your desktop, allowing you to run an installer or whatever, it simply launches itself, drops the program in whatever directory the image was, quits, and tosses itself in the trash.

I *think* the first widespread installer to act like this was Apple's Safari, and of course developers have been quick to copy it.

I understand the concept of simplifying the disk image. They take a lot of clicks. They're confusing to newbies and even mediumbies.

But I think the uncontrollable self-destructing DMG is a terrible idea.

No more backups? No ability to save a clean installer for any future use? Bleh bleh bleh.

[/annoying geeky stuff]

Posted at 06:41 PM

Comments

001. caitlin

So back it up *before* you run it, then.

Posted at 06:23AM on Monday, January 27, 2003

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