SSD in my laptop gave up the ghost over night. Reinstalling Delphi... serial number has reached the limit. Yay. Close to 40 minutes and still waiting for any response...
SSD in my laptop gave up the ghost over night. Reinstalling Delphi... serial number has reached the limit. Yay. Close to 40 minutes and still waiting for any response...
This registration ordeal is such a joyful experience...
/rant
This registration ordeal is such a joyful experience...
/rant
Out of curiousity - how old was the SSD?
ReplyDeleteLars Fosdal Well the laptop (HP) was bought late 2012, so some time before that. The SSD is from Micron, a RealSSD C400.
ReplyDeleteNo idea what happened, it just froze over night and when rebooting chkdsk found lost sectors, tons of lost files and whatnot. Decided to just replace it rather than fooling around.
Yeah, it seems that when they go, they GO.
ReplyDeleteGetting a new is always the better option.
4-5 years seems acceptable. The newer disks also have better longevity.
back in the days when norton ghost was the "thing", I was having similar joyful days (and nights). And then I was introduce to NG and I've never done major re-installing since. I actually spent a good few days moving my windows installation from my PC to my (at the time) new laptop, just so I won't have to reinstall stuff. And after a while I was introduced to virtualization and a few years ago I ended up moving (P2V) my laptop to my (at the time) brand new ESXi system (KVM passed through). Snapshots, complete VM backups, the works. And when I go on vacation or somewhere remote and need to work, I just use the same (now pretty old) laptop to remote into my VMs and have my entire "lab" available for work (dev VMs, build VMs, test VMs, data storage, etc). And if they steal (or I lose) my laptop, I don't really lose anything important.
ReplyDeleteSo why don't you join the dark side? We have cookies :)
I asked them last night (about 9pm UK time) if they could reset the license count on a trial version of Interbase ToGo, which I had mistakenly activated whilst in an installer-staging folder and couldn't now re-activate in the right place the test machine (that's a whole other story, of course). To be fair to them, when I got back in this morning I'd got the email telling me it had been done and I could carry on.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what to say about the activation thing. I'm all for them protecting their income - we've all got to eat - but there's got to be a better way. I still get bitten by the false 'not licensed' thing, maybe once a fortnight it just throws me out and I lose whatever I had been working on - but I can immediately restart the IDE and all appears fine again for days on end. For something that I'm paying serious money for it's hugely frustrating. Especially when if I went and found an online pirated version, it would probably be rock-solid in this aspect.
I don't have a better solution, off-hand. But I'm sure there is a better one, out there somewhere.
Mircea Pfa I don't use my laptop as primary dev tool, but I have been with clients where a reliable internet connection can be an issue (on their guest wifi), and having locally installed tools saved the day.
ReplyDeleteOn my main box and at home I do daily (incremental) full-disk imaging to some proper metal :)
Asbjørn Heid I carry a 3g stick for almost 2 years now. I never go to customers, but I do go to the country side. (granted, there were a few places where the stick didn't help, but then again, I was on vacation or weekend.)
ReplyDeleteYou just have to find whatever works for you. To my needs, my setup works almost perfectly.
You should probably place your laptop in the backup cycle ;) I was researching some options to start backup at system shutdown around the time I discovered the esxi, I'm pretty sure those options are more mature now.
Javier Hernández That's what I got in my stationary, which I built myself :)
ReplyDeleteMircea Pfa Yeah support guys (who take turns at a 24/7 support service) have this 4g/3g thing. Personally I'm out of the office way too seldom for that :)
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side, it was a nice opportunity to upgrade from Win 7 to 8.1...
Still on 8.1 too. I'd like to move to 10, but there are some corporate apps that still doesn't like 10.
ReplyDeleteI've tried Win 10... Twice. Besides the BSODs (which is surely due to the upgrade rather than fresh install) I just found too much I didn't like.
ReplyDeleteStill waiting... good thing I have something else to do...
ReplyDeleteAnd I just got the confirmation they bumped it up. By a senior support engineer no less...
ReplyDeleteAn old thing with the earlier SSD's... "chemical-electronical degradation". While the firmware of the SSD didn't "span" the data you could end up writing/reading the same spot (memory segments) several million times an hour, and you got lost segments, which utterly brought down the 'chip'.
ReplyDeleteBased on my experience the support guys are somewhat fast to bump the license count but that being said, I just dislike the license method they use.
ReplyDeleteIf I purchased a license I should be able to reinstall without running into this at all. The only time they should question a developer is when the license hits over 50 times or even a 100 times for a particular version, NOT 3.
This is a primitive method to reduce bootlegging and has to be finally brought to the table by Idera. For the amount of money spent on this product no one should be hit with this type of nonsense.
Absolutely agree with that, Richard Baroniunas. You can't charge me this kind of money every year and then make it so hard to actually use/install it.
ReplyDeleteIt's something of a disincentive that the illegal users, who don't pay to support the product, don't have to put up with this at all when the legitimate users do...