wugcrc@wums.wustl.edu (04/26/90)
What in the world is a DONGLE? It sounds like a verb my friends and I would have made up when we were 12. Dan Flasar
tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) (05/03/90)
wugcrc@wums.wustl.edu writes: > What in the world is a DONGLE? It sounds like a verb my friends and I >would have made up when we were 12. A security device you plug in to your computer. Typically plugs into mouse port #2 on Amy. The program that uses it then looks for it before it works (or at least before it works fully). I find them not too bad if you have only one and don't use the mouse port for much else; two is a real hassle. (Multitask?? You gotta be kidding...). Also, the program I had that simply quit after taking half a minute to load if it didn't find the dongle was an unacceptable implementation; the program that looks for it only on file (and printer) output, then politely asks for it if it isn't there, is much better: even lets me make a "demo" copy easily. The best protection in my book is not protection but trust and education...