David, well.............yes. The service IS listed as Beta so one can expect failures of various sorts. I guess I need to get a second N800 to use as a test system. Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * *Serving the SmartDigital^TM home, entrepreneurial enterprise, and emerging network service provider markets* * * primary email address: jholmblad at acadiasecurenets.com <mailto:jholmblad at acadiasecurenets.com> backup email address: jholmblad at verizon.net <mailto:jholmblad at verizon.net> David Rudder wrote: > You know what they say. "Never attribute to malice that which can be > explained by stupidity". > > I'm a software developer and I've made exactly these kinds of mistakes > more than once. DeviceScape doesn't strike me as the sort of company > that would intentionally disobey your settings. It seems to me like more > of an oversight. > > Also, "viral" usually means that it spreads itself to other machines. I > don't think DeviceScape is doing that. It's just losing preferences. > > -Dave > > John Rudd wrote: > >> I downloaded it, and installed it. Didn't find it immediately useful to >> my situation, so I turned it off, thinking that I'd try it again later >> when I was able to get them specific information for the wifi login page >> at work, so that they could support it. >> >> And it turned itself back on when I next powered up. >> >> And I turned it off again, and unchecked it in the Navigation control panel. >> >> And it turned itself back on when I next powered up, having also >> re-enabled itself on the Navigation control panel. >> >> So I did it again, in case I had missed a step. >> >> And it did it again. >> >> So I uninstalled it. And wont ever use it again. >> >> >> Anything that decides to over-ride my decision to not use it is a >> complete piece of crap. On the basis of its viral nature alone, I >> heavily recommend against using it. Who knows what other nefarious >> things its doing under the hood (and, yes, I consider "re-enabling >> itself", after the user specifically and directly disabled it, to be >> "nefarious"). Or if it's not doing it now, what things the company >> might add to it once you're comfortable with it over-riding your >> settings for you. >> >> >> >> Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote: >> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> have anybody tried this app?: >>> http://www.devicescape.com/pub/download.do >>> >>> Thanks and best regards, >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> maemo-users mailing list >> maemo-users at maemo.org >> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > >
