Technic used to be shady, but they're legit now, as far as I'm aware. As one of the people who used to rage about it, I can honestly say this horse is pulp, from all the beatings it gets in this forum. This is an old bygone, and it has never stopped anyone from enjoying Tekkit.
My rage was almost entirely because the creator never asked for permission for EE. Not that he used it without permission, so much as the confusion that he didn't ask. The real kicker is I would've said yes. So in the end, I didn't have much to stay mad about.
I've got a different idea of modding these days. This community is about having fun and making Minecraft better for everyone, not just the people I like or agree with.
It's a waste of time trying to tell someone they're "wrong" for using something they like.
(It doesn't even make sense.)
The superiority argument, though, that just cracks me up. The only thing a modpack does is put together a collection of mods people like. The collection of mods itself doesn't belong to the modpack creators, they belong to everyone (with some exceptions); so why does the name of the pack or its association have any relevance concerning its superiority?
The mods which comprise the modpack are what make it superior. Not the other way around.
(And even then, the superiority is purely subjective)
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Essentially, the outofbounds exception means you/the mod is trying to set something to too high of a number.
Edit: Gah! ninja'd 3:
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Something you can do is search these forums for most of the mods you could want to check their updated status as the majority of mod authors make posts here that they keep up to date.
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You can edit any profile to use any minecraft version. Is just a dropdown box in the profile edit window. If you don't already had the version selected installed, the launcher will download it and install it for you.
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As for Tinker's Construct, it's not as simple as just adding it into the ore dictionary. You have to use the TCon API to make it work. If you don't already have that, you can get it here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1659892-164tinkers-construct/
It will be a zip file. Simply unzip it and place the files inside your /mcp/src/Minecraft folder. Eclipse should refresh it's list after a few seconds to show they were added.