there's offroaders and then again

> I agree. I love the try before you buy concept, & will happily pay for
> something I know works. I must be one of the few people that paid for
> Automenu, and Winzip & others. As an IT professional myself I know what
> grief can go into programming. I'm smart enough to be happy to pay
> others to do it for me these days

Seconded!

I always pay for a decent piece of shareware if it is reasonably
priced (most are) and it does what I want reliably (many don't!).
The only pain is trying to remember to keep hold of all the
downloads and license keys when you wipe your PC.

Matt

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:48:06 +0100, Matthew Maddock
<[email protected]> wrote:

[shareware]

> The only pain is trying to remember to keep hold of all the
> downloads and license keys when you wipe your PC.

I hear ya - there are many of us that just ain't suited to admin. Even my
gsm/cell provider wants me to remember a password these days.

--
William Tasso

Land Rover - 110 V8
Discovery - V8

On or around Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:48:06 +0200, Matthew Maddock
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>> I agree. I love the try before you buy concept, & will happily pay for
>> something I know works. I must be one of the few people that paid for
>> Automenu, and Winzip & others. As an IT professional myself I know what
>> grief can go into programming. I'm smart enough to be happy to pay
>> others to do it for me these days
>
>Seconded!
>
>I always pay for a decent piece of shareware if it is reasonably
>priced (most are) and it does what I want reliably (many don't!).
>The only pain is trying to remember to keep hold of all the
>downloads and license keys when you wipe your PC.

I have 2 ways of doing that: I have a big directory on the HDD which is
called "install files" and has all the downloaded installers in it
(including old versions) and this every now and then gets backed up to DVD.

I also have a text file with all the licence numbers and keys and so forth,
and that is saved on 2 different machines and also printed out on paper.
--
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I'm with you there, of course: They use the snaffle and the bit
alright, but where's the bloody horse? - Roy Campbell (1902-1957)