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to: Geo.
from: Robert Comer
date: 2007-01-02 21:02:20
subject: Re: Orwellian Company of the Year award goes to ....

From: "Robert Comer" 

No reduced functionality here yet on either of my test case VM's...

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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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