Re: PC is cheaper than MAC (Yeah, right.)

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From: Robert DeMillo
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 00:15

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In article <1992Apr7.155731.20408@news.iastate.edu> arakins@iastate.edu (Andrew R Akins) writes:
>   What pisses me off is the programs that do self checking
> so that if you change a resourse, the program doesn't run.
> I don't see whay that is neccessary. I enjoy changing
> all of the menu entries to stupid things, like Kill for
> delete or Create for new.

>   Oh well...

> -- Andy Akins
>    Iowa State University
>    arakins@iastate.edu

This question would be answered had you read comp.windows.ms.programmer.
A discussion is taking place there on ways to disable nagware
dialog boxes, disable copy protection, and remove serial numbers
from About boxes. It's pretty easy to understand why a programmer
would check to make sure his/her dialogs hadn't been tampered with...

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