Control over the Program

[DaveVikingPE]

Boy, I accidentally play with the time settings on my workstation and now Microstation tells me that the "time difference between your workstation and the license server is too great. A usage has not been granted."

I set the time back during the same login session yet Microstation ("J&quot gives me the same message. I've been bugging the IM folks to help me out for three days and I haven't been able to use the program I have been steadily using since 1998.

Tell you what, Bentley, and everyone else out there conning firms into buying license argeements - instead of getting a program that does the job properly, quickly and doesn't need to be upgraded - it's little "quirks" like that that are maddeningly irritating. Why the heck should I be handcuffed into not being able to set the time on my computer? Don't expect me to be nice to your annoying salespeople for a long time.

 

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Thanks for the warning - I won't be playing with the time on my machine now! That's a silly Bentley quirk. But I wouldn't say that these companies are conning people - they need some sort of licensing to make a livelihood.