If you're anything like me, you use a RAM Disk for browser caching and downloads. If you're even more like me, you are very annoyed with the shutdown or restart alert that goes along with having stuff still on the RAM Disk. Frankly, I know (or don't care) what's in there, and yes, I always want it to go away. So I wrote RAMShush.
RAMShush is a system extension / control panel that intercepts that bothersome alert and allows your Mac to go about it's business of shutting down (or restarting, for those of you with Macs whose RAM Disk contents can't survive a restart). If you have a Mac with system software that includes the "Save on Shut Down" toggle on the Memory control panel, you likely don't need RAMShush -- unless of course you really don't want it persistent.
First off, you gotta use a Macintosh.
Next, download RAMShush.
Unpack the file (with Stuffit Expander from Aladdin Systems, <http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/index.html>), and simply drag the RAMShush control panel into your System Folder (your system should know that it needs to go in the Control Panels folder). Restart.
Open the RAMShush control panel to toggle it on or off, and to say that you've paid (but please do pay before clicking the "I Paid" checkbox...). I write other software for a living, but I do stuff like RAMShush in my spare time. Please support shareware authors by paying for shareware that you find useful. RAMShush is not crippleware -- if you decide not to pay but keep using it, it won't expire or anything (although it might gently remind you to pay at some point). You are on your honor.
RAMShush should work with any MacOS that allows you to use a RAM Disk. Remember to visit my software page at <http://www.wavetech.net/~nocturne/software.html> on occasion to see if there are updates for new versions of MacOS.
RAMShush is shareware, which means if you use it, you should send me $5.
Paying for RAMShush is fairly simple. Open the Register program that accompanies RAMShush. Enter your name, your email address, and the number of licenses you wish to purchase. Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi, which handles mypayment processing.
Site and Worldwide licenses are available, as well. Site licenses are good for all users in your company within 100 miles (160 kilometers) of where the application is registered.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi. Their email address is sales@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email acknowledgement when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgement.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
- Kagi
- 1442-A Walnut Street #392-QMQ
- Berkeley, California 94709-1405
- USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not practical.
If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form with their payment. Kagi can not invoice your company, you need to act on my behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end. Please do not fax or email payment forms that indicate Cash, Check or Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know, there is still no technology to transfer physical objects via fax or email and without the payment, the form cannot be processed.
Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi when the form is processed. If you do not have an email address and want confirmation, you should check the "Postcard receipt" button in the Register application.
Occasionally I write code that doesn't work. Or some assumption I had breaks when a new configuration of hardware or OS shows up. Thus, "new features" spontaneously appear in software. If you find such features, email me (<mailto:jschmidt@kagi.com>) and I will address them ASAP.
1.0 (20 Jan 1999)