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size matters
Thursday, 14-Jan-99 16:41:10

OK, I'm an atypical but impatient user, I admit it. When I see a new version that is 200-300% larger than the version I use currently, yet has maybe 10% increased functionality, my gut reaction is to drop it in favor of the old version, not to read up on the issue.

Come to think of it, I still haven't put the new version of hiew on any of my *real* machines...I needed it for a quick fix and put it on a borrowed machine, and while downloading saw OWL's post...ergo fixum.

I think I need to keep on top of my upgrading. I downloaded all of the IDA version since 3.70, and am still running 3.75 on all my machines. And soft-ice 3.0. EtcEtc. Funny, they all work fine...it is sort of amusing to see the waves of 'versionitis' roll through the (for want of a better term) cracking community every time a new version of SoftIce or IDA comes out--I thought only corporate lusers got the newest version of everything ;)

Hey, there ya go, new reality cracking essay: why do supposedly lucid and non-status/non-versionitis oriented crackers 'tard out every time a new version of their tools comes out, and spend a week in panicked frenzy trying to obtain/crack it rather than use their existing tools to do 'real work'?


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