CompuServe Messages

Boy John… I take it you don't love your dongle? I love my dongle. In fact, I just spent the whole afternoon debugging a dongle problem with my system here. I have been having intermittent problems for the past two months and this morning I got practically no work done due to the dreaded 3DS error that says the hardware lock is missing do you want to save? etc. I sure love that dongle message because it kept me from pulling out my 9mm and blowing a hole through the Autodesk Logo on the 3DS box. Do you know that when your system is about to crash(due to a dongle problem) it is ththe only crash that allows you to save before it crashes. That alone is why you should love your dongle. In the midst of four project deadlines and attempting to complete a project that I just missed the deadline this afternoon because I couldn't work uninterupted by that lovely hardware lock message, I just told the client that the computer is giving me dongle bugitis and had to post pone the meeting until tomorrow. Well I found the culprit, I think. Seems that the weight of all those damn dongles hanging about has stressed the casings and the Liquid Speed utility dongle is intermittent connection. Well I removed it and I'm back up again just one day behind schedule. Now, do I send the bill to Vibrant or Autodesk? I'm going a bit slower without Liquid Speed but I'll probably get done faster in the long run. John, the next time I go to the range I think I'll take the LS dongle with me for target practice. <G> What would you do?