From: "Geo." 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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>  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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