From: "Robert Comer" 

I still got nothing...

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Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> If after 3 days solitaire still starts up fine, try stopping and then
> right away starting the software license service, maybe that will be an
> easy way to trigger the system to go looking for a phone. If it does at
> least we'll know that it can be triggered and then keep looking even
> though the trigger has been corrected.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:459b110a{at}w3.nls.net...
>> No reduced functionality here yet on either of my test case VM's...
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:459af278$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> "Mike N."  wrote in message
>>> news:b1ikp2h9n8lqb9sdfv8pjbisah8c4ligqf{at}4ax.com...
>>>
>>>>  The thinking was undoubtably, "big corp whose
firewall denies all by
>>>> default will use an internal activation server".   
They forget "small
>>>> shop
>>>> with decent firewall policy" has no default
connectivity either.   I
>>>> can
>>>> think of several of these that would fall afoul of Geo's test and
>>>> degrade
>>>> to 19" LCD monitor that just displays a spinning doughnut.
>>>
>>> At this point it's still unclear what triggered the reduced
>>> functionality. It's clear what cured it but the cause could have been
>>> the routes or could have been any of or any combination of the other
>>> things I did since installing. Until I get time or one of the other
>>> folks can reproduce it I can't say for sure.
>>>
>>> My guess is it works similar to the reactivation thing where if you
>>> change a video card it doesn't go off but if you change a videocard, a
>>> mouse, and add a ram stick it does go off. This could also have been
>>> triggered by a combination of events, hard to say right now.
>>>
>>> Geo.
>>
>>
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