saved the file<\/a> to make sure some anti-piracy idiot doesn’t delete it.<\/p>\nThis is a huge boost to my self-confidence. I’ve always dreamed, and never dared hope, that someone would bother creating a crack for ISO Master. After all, it’s nowhere near as popular as its competitors (unlike Linux, Windows has a few established players in this space).<\/p>\n
As to that more people will get it for free now, heh – as they say “a small percentage of something is much better than 100% of nothing”. This is free promotion for me that I could never afford to do myself, I simply don’t have the resources. The more people have it, the more people will know about it, the more people will pay for it.<\/p>\n
And if that’s not how it ends up, so be it. I am flattered that my software’s been cracked, and if I find out who did it I’ll buy them a beer.<\/p>\n
I may even get off my ass and update the Windows version now, it’s two minors behind the Linux version, and GTK had some nice improvements since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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![saved the file<\/a> to make sure some anti-piracy idiot doesn’t delete it.<\/p>\nThis is a huge boost to my self-confidence. I’ve always dreamed, and never dared hope, that someone would bother creating a crack for ISO Master. After all, it’s nowhere near as popular as its competitors (unlike Linux, Windows has a few established players in this space).<\/p>\nAs to that more people will get it for free now, heh – as they say “a small percentage of something is much better than 100% of nothing”. This is free promotion for me that I could never afford to do myself, I simply don’t have the resources. The more people have it, the more people will know about it, the more people will pay for it.<\/p>\nAnd if that’s not how it ends up, so be it. I am flattered that my software’s been cracked, and if I find out who did it I’ll buy them a beer.<\/p>\nI may even get off my ass and update the Windows version now, it’s two minors behind the Linux version, and GTK had some nice improvements since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the last wo days or so I’ve been suffering from bandwidth troubles. I throttled the children’s upload to 10K so it wasn’t that. Finally I’ve decided to watch the web server logs for a minute, and I’ve noticed a pattern: 63.226.153.189 – – [09\/Dec\/2008:17:48:05 -0500] “GET \/isomaster\/wp-content\/themes\/ISO_master\/images\/ss-started-vista.png HTTP\/1.1” 200 26112 “http:\/\/scenereleases.info\/category\/applications” “Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-36","6":"format-standard","7":"category-opensource","8":"category-safeforseneca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/isomasterv13-lz0.png\"){kind=link}