Anders Heie

CNET and Download.com finally decided to join the forces of evil, and pre-emptively started wrapping software my company KaDonk has listed on the site with their own offers. No revenue sharing, but even worse, they are wrapping our software with software that triggers anti-virus alarms for our unsuspecting users.

Really? I thought they were better than that. This will kill download.com, as we see user complaints pouring in already, and we’re a pretty small company.

Apologies to our users, we will dis-associate ourselves with CNET and download.com asap.

Not sure yet, but it seems Apple might be violating one of my Nokia patents in their new iOS5 coming out… http://www.patents.com/us-6473621.html.

Very cool…

I own The Scone Company. It’s a California registered company,  and as such one would imagine getting a code signing certificate should be a piece of cake. So I signed up for a $75 one via Tucows, from Comodo. Probably the best deal around.

They want to see Papers of Incorporation, water, electric, and phone bills, plus have our domain registered to our name. This used to be a piece of cake, but… We have an LLC in California, so the papers are called Certificate of Organization (Which they don’t recognize). We use Google voice which is free, so no phone bill. We don’t have an office, so no water or electric bill.

The end result of this discussion is yet to be seen, but Comodo seems to live in the past when companies had all these things. Today, startups can work out of a garage with almost no cost at all. Maybe Comodo should start being a bit more flexible?

— Update —

I finally got my certificate generated, but I can’t download it. Here are the insane instructions they sent back, asking that I please use Windows XP and IE6 or IE7. I mean, are they jokers serious?

Thank you for your mail.

Please be informed that the Comodo Code Signing Certificate is not compatible with Chrome Browser. You need to use either IE/Firefox to apply and collect the certificate. Also you need to use the same system/browser to apply and collect the certificate.

To resolve this issue, you will have to apply again for code signing certificate via your account, we will issue the new certificate as free.

Please follow these steps to properly to re-apply for a Code Signing Certificate.

1) Open http://www.instantssl.com/code-signing/ in Internet Explorer (IE) 6 or 7 with ActiveX enabled. (Windows XP preferred)

2) Select the same duration as your initial certificate and then click ‘Buy Now’.

3) On this page off to the right there is a section labeled ‘Account Holders’, please fill in your credentials and click ‘Login’.

4) Once signed in it will say “Welcome “…

5) Proceed to fill out the rest of the form as usual and click ‘Next’.

6) Do not cancel the order

7) Do not pay for the new order

Stop when it asks to provide payment details.

9) Reply back to this ticket with the new order number that the payment page provides.

Please let us know if you need any further support.

To serve you better in the near future, Kindly provide your Valuable feedback to feedback@comodo.com

Pokki.com promises to bring web applications to your desktop. I’m definitely taking this gem for a spin. Sign up as developer and try it out, I think this is gonna get big.

While this doesn’t always work, a lot of times an InstallShield installer can run totally silent by passing it “/s /v/quiet” on the command line. Notice there is NO space between the /v and the /quiet commands. That is because the /v command instructs InstallShield to pass /quiet to the embedded installer, which often is not InstallShield . This works perhaps 50% of the time when I need to do this.