[Nobody]

I felt it coming last night when the Macromedia store was down, and I was right! Fireworks and Dreamweaver are available for purchase and download, with the actual physical bits not available until later.

For us educational types, they are $99 a piece,and we can get MX Studio with those two, Freehand, Flash and Cold Fusion for $199.

Such a deal.

As for the rest of you, time to enroll in summer classes!

[da:mac]

I so love being a student! images/icons/grin.gif

[Nobody]

I so love being a student! images/icons/grin.gif

[Nobody]

Do high school students count as students yet? Last time I checked, they didn't at the Apple Store. images/icons/mad.gif

[Nobody]

From the site

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The Macromedia Education Store allows qualified educational end users in the United States to purchase Education versions of Macromedia products at a reduced price. Education end users are full-time students, faculty, staff and employees of bona fide educational institutions, consisting of Elementary, Middle, Junior High and High Schools, Junior Colleges, Private and State Colleges and Universities.

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Hmmm....hope that includes home schools....

[Nobody]

Sweet... thanks for the info Dogcow. I might just have to pick that up.

[Nobody]

will the real/legal versions have real & full uninstallers? I think i might have to get that to undo the stuff that it (the pre-release) did to my Mac =(

[Nobody]

Sphinct,

What happened to your Mac?

And you student types should remember that one day, you have to graduate. The only real solution to perpetual bliss is to be a college professor. That way, you never have to grow up.

[Nobody]

Take a look and educate yourselves:

blank>http://webforums.mac...dia.com/previewdre amweavermx/messageview.cfm?catid=238&threadid=345797&highlight_key=y&keyword1=uninstall

here's some quotes from there:

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Hopefully, the changes that are made to the System files (making
files/directories world-writeable), won't create any security holes,
(according to other Mac news web sites

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The security hole that the Privilege software opens up is that when Classic is not installed the VSetupT application displays an authentication dialog to obtain an administrator username and password so that it can change the access privileges to four files within the /System folder hierarchy - three of which are changed to world writable and a fourth is changed to world writable and executable. This allows any user or process to overwrite the file with another file which may contain malicious code. This could be used to exploit buffer overflows and other bugs which allow root or elevated access. The position of the files makes it unlikely that they could be overwritten remotely but would certainly be accessible to an unprivileged user in a student lab or internet cafe. The fact that Dreamweaver is used in student labs is probably why the files are world writable - the Privilege software needs somewhere safe to write its data which isn't likely to be removed and any student is unlikely to have admin privileges.

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Interesting huh? i was quite surprised when I read this. I had actually gone to the Macromedia support site to learn how to uninstall the pre-release... this is what i found when i searched for "uninstall"

[Nobody]

Thanks for the information. I didn't see any solutions posted which sucks. Wouldn't renstalling X, which I know is a pain, reestablish these priveleges? Or what about a Terminal script?

The good news for me is that I do have Classic installed, so this shouldn't be an issue on my machine. I hope.

It would be nice if Macromedia told everyone who might be affectred that this is a danger.

[Nobody]

Yea it does suck how it wasn't written noticeably... thumbs down to macromedia on this one. Makes me curious about their other products too. (I only have the Dreamweaver MX pre-release)

There probably is a way to do it in the terminal, but should we really have to go through all of that? I think if they had an installer log, that'd be the ideal place to start, but i found none on my machine.

I thought i read the solution was to buy the real version and install over it, although that might have been a different thread. And that probably was speculation (since no one really has the real version yet, or do they? I thought the real version came out June 7, when the pre-release expires...) And yeah, a complete reinstall of OSX should fix it just fine too...

[da:mac]

I have classic installd and the preview releases of Dreamweaver and Fireworks MX. What does this mean to me? What happens when classic is removed?

What does all this mean for the average user?

Looks like Macromedia have made a booboo of Microsoft proportions

[Nobody]

I don't quite understand what Classic has to do with it. I have Classic installed, and I was still asked for that admin password. I wonder why it'd need it if Classic is installed, according to that quote i found earlier...

Maybe we're screwed, Classic or not. =(