I've been running the beta release of JFW 3.31 (probably either the
RC2 version of the 3.31.31 version, I forget which one) on my system
at work for a couple weeks now, and when the final release of 3.31.35
came out, I said I'd get it when I got around to it. I did get it at
home and installed it, after an initial problem got squashed. I never
gave the installation at work another thought.
Until I came in Monday morning, sat down at my desk, booted up,
acknowledged the time-change dialog, and received the following
dialog: "Your version of JFW has expired. Please contact the program
vendor, blah-blah-blah," and an OK button. Of course, it didn't
really say blah-blah-blah, but when I pressed [Enter], it sure enough
did stop talking! Lucky for me, I keep old versions around, so I
cranked up 3.3 and kept on working.
My company's intranet has been suffering of late with slow download
speeds, so when I tried getting the latest release from the JFW web
page with Internet Explorer and kept experiencing time-outs, I wasn't
real sure what to do about it. Also lucky for me, I had Netscape 4.08
installed (which I never use except in cases like this, because
Netscape either doesn't have a time-out or it's set so ridiculously
high as to be virtually non-existent). It took nearly two hours to
download the 13.2-odd-meg file, which, if you do the math, is at about
28.8kbps speed--certainly not what you'd expect over a multinatioinal
corporate intranet--but I did get the file with Netscape, did install
it, and now I'm all up to current revs.
Did anybody else get bitten by this 10/31-11/01 expiration problem, or
am I the only slow-poke to upgrade?
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