Re: Third party software

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, there's alot of folks using them...and frankly, I think they suck
and are a major pain in the butt!

The dongle for security came out years ago and frankly has long been
supplanted by software for most cases.  They generally work like a champ
unless you have some firmware glitches with what you're passing through to
use and in some cases, it even uses different and unused pins from the
normal functions of the port...

But I'ld love to see all of them removed and replaced with software
licensing keys...

JMHO

Don in DC

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Shields, Ken wrote:

>       I was at a customer site yesterday, and some of the applications on the 
> users' pc have a 'dongle' attached to
>       an LPT1 port, the function of which, prevents the software load if , it 
> does not detect the 'dongle' switch.
>
>       How widely used is this methodology?, any down side?...
>
>
> Thanks'
>
> Ken Shields
> PPG Canada Inc
> 155 First Ave.
> Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7L3
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