Marcs Updater
There have been some reports about issues with the Updater not updating anymore. Please try the latest beta version and switch to another IP Check provider instead of the previous default dnsomatic.com. For some reason they are rate-limiting the number of requests to their service. The new IP Check provider selection allows you to choose another provider in such cases. You can test the functionality with the new "Test" panel.
If you want to add a custom provider to the unstable testing version, store a JSON file like the following under %PROGRAMDATA%\Marcs Updater\ServiceProviders\dyndns.json:
{
"name": "DynDNS.org (Test)",
"endpoint": "https://members.dyndns.org/nic/update",
"method": "GET",
"queryString": "hostname={HOSTNAME}&myip={MYIP}",
"dataPayload": "",
"defaults": {
"username": "test",
"password": "test",
"hostname": "test1.customtest.dyndns.org"
}
}Supported query and payload tags are {USERNAME}, {PASSWORD}, {HOSTNAME} and {MYIP}. Restart the background service and foreground application to apply any changes.
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rpr wrote:
How can I be sure that your software does exactly what you say it does and nothing else? Or, why don't you provide the source code?
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RotBlitz wrote:
Did you ever ask Microsoft the same question? If not, why not?
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rpr wrote:
If some free software is made by a company and I discover that the software does some nasty (and illegal) things regarding my privacy or my data, I can sue the company.
But, if some free software is made by someone who is actually an anonymous, I can't take any legal actions against that person.
Have you tried to run "Marcs Updater.exe"? It wants to install without showing any license, disclaimer or info about the author(s).
Free software should have open source so that everyone can study it. Even better, the authors of open source should use a free license so that other programmers can improve the source code.
And the authors of the free software can always provide a means for receiving donations from satisfied users of their software.
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Marc wrote:
I can add some "AS IS" license.
I might open source the application at some point in the future, but I would have to clean up the source code a little bit before doing so. But if I open source this application it does not really help you, because it is written in the proprietary language PureBasic which itself is not open source.