Scott Ford wrote: >Yep dongles are not fool proof, then can break...it's hardware..I don't get >the reason for dongles..
Or just lose it, then come back and we can have a nice war story thread... :-) No, it is not funny despite my comment above. If you have 'sensitive', 'bread-and-butter', 'life-death' software on which your company needs to 'live' and some *sshole 'lost' it, it is not fun trying to convince the vendor to supply another dongle. (Been there and got a filthy t-shirt with invoice printed on it from that stupid vendor... - figuratively speaking of course :-D ) Joel C. Ewing wrote: > 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. Yuck! Thats defect by design!!! >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. See my rant above. Maybe if I'm big and rich, I want to be such a scamming vendor! Hmmm, I'm still dreaming of my private yatch at my own island with its own airport + harbour... :-D > 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. What logic? Try out the 'compatibility' settings or so on win7 on both driver and software. No guarantees of course. >A nice result for the application vendor if I'm forced to do an otherwise >unnecessary upgrade at great cost, .... I feel your pain. Just drop them if you can. :-( Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
