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Skriven 2005-03-16 09:45:46 av Gerald Miller (1:342/512)
   Kommentar till text 4771 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
Ärende: I've had it!
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Hello CHARLES,

    Responding to a post in the WIN95 area:
    On Thursday March 10 2005 at 21:32,
    CHARLES ANGELICH [1:123/140] wrote to GERALD MILLER,
    about: I've had it!

 CA>>>>>>> In all fairness to you, or anyone else reading this, BootitNG's
 CA>>>>>>> documentation is a bit cryptic and the user interface could be
 CA>>>>>>> sorted out a bit better than it is. Many people have made this
 CA>>>>>>> same observation but it is 'mouseable' and does work as
 CA>>>>>>> advertised just takes a little time getting accustomed to the
 CA>>>>>>> 'procedures' and terminology (icons, menus, etc.). It's worth
 CA>>>>>>> the effort but I won't tell anyone it's going to be easy to
 CA>>>>>>> understand if you've never used it before.

 GM>>>>>> Well, not having the software to 'work with', I can't say what
 GM>>>>>> the documentation is like. I did find:

 GM>>>>>> http://members.shaw.ca/bootitng/

 GM>>>>>> if you want to check it out and see if its workings are any more
 GM>>>>>> precise. Let me know if the site is any more detailed than what
 GM>>>>>> the documentation is, please, and if it is, then I will make sure
 GM>>>>>> that I get a hard copy for when I can afford BootItNG.

 CA>>>>> Will check that URL this evening.

 GM>>>> And, your opinion is?

 CA>>> Reads like it was written by a journalist. Moves a bit too fast with
 CA>>> not enough information about each function. I can follow it but I've
 CA>>> used BootitNG for some time now (years?) and the screens and
 CA>>> terminology used by Terrabyte are familiar to me.

 GM>> Too bad about the journalist. Would you create something on your
 GM>> website?

 CA> I've consider doing that but the 'trend' is to purchase 'name'
 CA> software like Ghost even though most of them are begining to have
 CA> compatibility problems and cost twice the price.

I looked at the most recent NSW (with two versions of Ghost included)
package, put it back on the shelf and resisted _all_ temptation to buy any
Symantec product.  ;-))  The price was respectable enough but I'd rather
get a lobotomy for my money.

 CA> I wouldn't earn even one pesos for my time/effort and I'm begining to
 CA> become jealous of how my time is spent.

You're getting wiser as you get older.  <g>

 GM>> Okay, I was at the Terrabyte site. BootIt Next Generation when
 GM>> purchased with Image for Windows (includes Image for DOS) is priced
 GM>> at $49.54USD ($59.79CAD). Now, is Terrabyte shipping a CD with these
 GM>> programs or is that for an e-mailed license and you have to download
 GM>> the programs?

 CA> Last time I checked you download the software and get a 'license' key
 CA> for payment for same.

I've been leery of this get license key technique.  Downloaded a "bundled"
program, paid for the "bundle" and only received one license.  Took over
three months of e-mail messages (and snail mail of credit card billing)
before the issue was resolved and never got an apology for their error.
Once burned; twice shy!

 GM>> Also, which program creates the Windows ISO image files? BING? Image
 GM>> for Windows? Both?

 CA> The website is a bit confusing isn't it? The docs for BootitNG are
 CA> confusing in much the same ways. :-)

Aren't you just the bearer of such good news?  <g>  Not much of an
incentive to purchase / try the product.  Have they given any indication
that they intend to put their documentation into "layman" terms and clarify
any confusion?

 CA> BooitNG will do almost everything by itself. There is a free download
 CA> of a program to read/restore individual files from a BootitNG image
 CA> file but I seldom need to do that here even though I do have it and
 CA> did make sure it worked as advertised. :-)

That is reassuring!

 CA> Image for Windows uses a windows GUI interface to create the same
 CA> image files BootitNG creates but also requires the 'lock' (free)
 CA> software Terrabyte offers to lock Windows while the image is being
 CA> written. IFW is a bit less expensive but won't do the multiboot,
 CA> partitioning, etc. that BootitNG can do. I see no reason to not get
 CA> the full magilla myself and have no use for IFW here now that I have
 CA> BootitNG installed. :-)

I'm intrigued.

I'll have to go back to their site and investigate the upgrade policy -- I
tend to get irritated when I purchase software and find it's a "limited,
one time only" license....

           Cheers ... Gerald

... I've reached an age when lifetime guarantees are no longer reassuring.
--- GoldED+/DPMI32 v1.1.5-040330 [msg of Wednesday March 16 2005]
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