I believe the problems with maz has been corrected if you wipe off 3.0 completely from your pc and download the 3.1 version.
Several people who reported problems with 3.0 and could not get it to operate properly did exactly that and 3.1 has worked for them.
In 3.1 you can also turn off the automatic updates.
Everyone,
That procedure (wiping the slate clean and starting anew - rather than just updating over the top of the last MaZ version) may be the ticket in almost all instances. If there were an underlying error with the previous version, maybe even one that you were not aware of, that could have possibly continued the conflict on with the upgrade when allowed to just proceeed via the auto-update. Usually, with most programs you don't have to worry about this. But, since MaZ had poor performance before, it would be wise to save your old version installation programs off to the side (on a backup disc just in case the new version isn't what you hoped) and then wipe the slate clean and try anew... Totally fresh.
The fellow who compiled MaZ (Morser) is just like many of us. He doesn't work for OpenSat, he just writes programs and publishes them for us to use to help us with our ventures. He probably just has a nice computer room to do so within, but he cannot test his programs for everyone's specific application. Maybe he writes this stuff using a Windows ??? system or a Linux ??? system and does his best to translate it to other OS's, but you just cannot test everything. That is just not "normally" possible. Same case for Telesat and many other programmers. They are not a "business" entity, so they don't have unlimited resourses to verify their work, but I think they are home brewed programmers that do one HECK of a job overall.
Yeah, I think that "WE" are their staff, although we do not get paid and neither do they. But we report back to them that the program has this or that flaw and they go back to the drawing board to correct it. They don't hear our immediate complaints, but it gets filtered back to them eventually.
This FTA venture is MUCH different from Dish Network or DirecTV or other providers who have a full time staff of techs and engineers and programmers who (try) to verify the functionality of their programming and changes constantly before they are realeased to the public. FTA programmers are doing this mostly free gratis and for fun and have no staff to assist them other than US.
Just remember one thing to keep it all in perspective... This is a personal DIY "HOBBY" and that is all it is. If you expect more from it than that, you will be disappointed.
RADAR
