Yep dongles are not fool proof, then can break...it's hardware..I don't get the reason for dongles..
Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Apr 25, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Joel C. Ewing <jcew...@acm.org> wrote: >> >> A dongle definitely could be an issue for some. Might be less of an issue >> on Linux, but my experiences on Windoze has been less than ideal and makes >> me regard any application that requires a dongle as more of a gamble. While >> the dongle may be regarded as "nice license insurance" from the software >> vendors standpoint, it is essentially just another point of failure for the >> user and lowers the value of the product. >> >> My wife has some very expensive Embroidery software that requires a dongle. >> The license does entitle her to run the software on multiple platforms, >> both her laptop and desktop, since the dongle prevents concurrent use. After >> a year or so the dongle case became too loose to remove the dongle from the >> USB port - the only way now is grasp and pull the dongle base with a pair of >> needle-nose pliers, which works, but is certainly not the advertised >> convenience. The only "support" provided by the application vendor to remedy >> this situation is to re-purchase the software at full price to get a new >> dongle. >> >> Other than using standard Windows GUI interfaces, this software does nothing >> that special at the Operating System level, except for the dongle support >> that requires a hardware driver written by yet a different vendor. Logic >> would suggest that this application should be able to migrate from Win XP to >> Win 7 without a problem, provided one can find support for the dongle on Win >> 7. My initial attempts to migrate have so far failed because the dongle >> vendor's current drivers for Win 7 are not compatible with the older version >> dongle that came with the application. I haven't given up, but unless I can >> locate a compatible driver that is also compatible with Win 7 this expensive >> application is toast on Win 7. A nice result for the application vendor if >> I'm forced to do an otherwise unnecessary upgrade at great cost, but from >> the user's standpoint this is a very poor outcome, apparently forced by the >> decision to require a dongle. >> >> -- >> Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org >> > > I had a USB Verizon celluar modem case fail and got it replaced under > insurance. Now I put it on a USB Male A - Female A cord. > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
