Dongle

Looks like you found out how to turn off the HTML format. Good. Next step is to "bottom post". That means that your responses should go at the BOTTOM of messages, like I'm going here.

Then munge your return e-mail address. Note that mine shows invalid. You should not display it here or anywhere on the internet for a number of reasons. First it helps to keep the spam e-mails down. When you do munge it, make sure it is obvious to others that it is not a valid name.

Back to your problem... Have you checked the website for updated drivers for the dongle. Search through the link I've provided below to ensure you have everything updated, especially the dongle driver. Then see if it will work.

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Thanks for the info on using the usenet groups (not sure what you mean about munge) on the computer and the site to check on dongle drivers. We have done this to no avail. Viking no longer offers technical support for Designer I 5.0. My system is not a VIP, it is just Designer I. VIP came out just after I bought my machine.

Here's the latest and probably the last. The printer would not work (even with the dongle removed) and they said the SSD5411 dongle driver was unsigned and not compatible with Microsoft. I took out the dongle driver, removed the Husq program and reformatted the computer using the W/XP CD. The installation came to a point where it said the parallel port was not supported by Microsoft, so I took it out, finished the installation and am back to square 1.

I'm totally burned out from all of this and will forget about it for a while.

Thanks again,

Dottie

This version is way too old to cope with W/XP Dottie. Is there any way to reformat your computer back to W/98?? Since you bought the hardware to cope with the dongle, '98 should work again for you.

$1000's. And they just keep changing it so they make you spend more :-( Did you read Foxymoron's tip about visiting alt.binaries.crafts.pictures for the Hus3D? It was posted on the 30th of May. Or am I not allowed say that in this group?? Sowwy for anything out of place but I am not going to sit on my hands when you could have software that works (for nix) and you won't need your dongle. You may need one of the driver upgrades from Hus's site, but that is all.

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I sat in a VIP sales pitch class and watched a woman burst into tears because she couldn't afford the new software either. It was not very nice to watch the salespeople move on to the rich folk when they knew they wouldn't get money out of her. Husqvarna wanted to force ppl into having to change over. They will probably only keep the VIP drivers online a little longer. Eventually VIP won't work on an operating system either. It works fine on XP (for me), but others have had trouble with drivers.

Munge means "make it wrong" if you like. Put a false email address in where it says put email address. Being truthful on the internet about your real email is a bit dangerous. I wouldn't even use anything close to my real email address. Hence the weird snipped-for-privacy@AnnWheatley.com thing. Eg snipped-for-privacy@dashes.invalid

Having System 5 or VIP has nothing to do with your D1 :-) They rolled out VIP to "complement" the D1. It's taken them a lot of years to top the D1 with the replacement SE (Super Expensive!!). If they think I have $10k handy for a hobby item....then they have rocks in their heads!

You could have Hus3D (and still use your D1) and the only difference will be that you will have to use the same colours that you used in System 5. D1's that haven't been upgraded to USB status (that's the 'physical' machine upgrade) can't read the 100's of colours available in Hus3D (or VIP for that matter). That is all. You would still have the same colour choices as in System 5.

Yup. WinXP has no idea what you want it to do. It would take a program "tweaking" that I haven't ever seen posted. Have you got your Win98 disks?? Since you are brave enough to format XP, then '98 should be a snap :-)) It might "see" the parallel port. (I'm not good with the hardware side of a computer, sowwy). I let my husband play with the electrical stuff!

Noooooo!! Don't give up on me now!! :-) Give yourself a week off, but don't give up totally. It's not you, it's the computer operating system that is too new, and the System 5 is just a little too "mature"... how's that?!! :-))

Go look at alt.binaries.crafts.pictures and see if your provider can pull headers back to May when the Hus3D was there.

Pixie :-)

version 5.1.

This version is way too old to cope with W/XP Dottie. Is there any way to reformat your computer back to W/98?? Since you bought the hardware to cope with the dongle, '98 should work again for you.

$1000's. And they just keep changing it so they make you spend more :-( Did you read Foxymoron's tip about visiting alt.binaries.crafts.pictures for the Hus3D? It was posted on the 30th of May. Or am I not allowed say that in this group?? Sowwy for anything out of place but I am not going to sit on my hands when you could have software that works (for nix) and you won't need your dongle. You may need one of the driver upgrades from Hus's site, but that is all.

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drivers won't help with the Version 5 system. Husqvarna made surethey wouldn't. They dumped all system 5 drivers off the Help Sectionwhen VIP went "live and dangerous!".Version 5 was to VIP like DOS was to Windows - as different asHusqvarna could make it. The only thing the same was they could bothwrite to floppies. I sat in a VIP sales pitch class and watched a woman burst into tears because she couldn't afford the new software either. It was not very nice to watch the salespeople move on to the rich folk when they knew they wouldn't get money out of her. Husqvarna wanted to force ppl into having to change over. They will probably only keep the VIP drivers online a little longer. Eventually VIP won't work on an operating system either. It works fine on XP (for me), but others have had trouble with drivers.

munge) on the computer and the site to check on dongle drivers.

Munge means "make it wrong" if you like. Put a false email address in where it says put email address. Being truthful on the internet about your real email is a bit dangerous. I wouldn't even use anything close to my real email address. Hence the weird snipped-for-privacy@AnnWheatley.com thing. Eg snipped-for-privacy@dashes.invalid

done this to no avail. Viking no longer offers technical support for Designer I 5.0. My system is not a VIP, it is just Designer I. VIP came out just after I bought my machine.

Having System 5 or VIP has nothing to do with your D1 :-) They rolled out VIP to "complement" the D1. It's taken them a lot of years to top the D1 with the replacement SE (Super Expensive!!). If they think I have $10k handy for a hobby item....then they have rocks in their heads!

You could have Hus3D (and still use your D1) and the only difference will be that you will have to use the same colours that you used in System 5. D1's that haven't been upgraded to USB status (that's the 'physical' machine upgrade) can't read the 100's of colours available in Hus3D (or VIP for that matter). That is all. You would still have the same colour choices as in System 5.

with the dongle removed) and they said the SSD5411 dongle driver was unsigned and not compatible with Microsoft. I took out the dongle driver, removed the Husq program and reformatted the computer using the W/XP CD. The installation came to a point where it said the parallel port was not supported by Microsoft, so I took it out, finished the installation and am back to square 1.

Yup. WinXP has no idea what you want it to do. It would take a program "tweaking" that I haven't ever seen posted. Have you got your Win98 disks?? Since you are brave enough to format XP, then '98 should be a snap :-)) It might "see" the parallel port. (I'm not good with the hardware side of a computer, sowwy). I let my husband play with the electrical stuff!

Noooooo!! Don't give up on me now!! :-) Give yourself a week off, but don't give up totally. It's not you, it's the computer operating system that is too new, and the System 5 is just a little too "mature"... how's that?!! :-))

Go look at alt.binaries.crafts.pictures and see if your provider can pull headers back to May when the Hus3D was there.

[correction] rH//phlat_arse//Pixie :-)

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Dottie, if you read this, the person that signed this is the reason why you should not put your real email anywhere on the 'net.

This person is not the real rH, who is a damn sight more helpful to sewing groups than this retard. He just forgot to take his medication today.

Please do not let it put you off posting here.

As usual, incorrect.

Pixie - the one with the cute arse. Erm, so I am told.... /tinkle

saw Pixie , Bless us ALL with:

mheh.... I do not know if that paragraph is going to be comprehended by an American.. there being far too much dot dash dot in the strine - thanks for trying

As for the post from: Path: xxxxxxxxxxxt!news.glorb.com!aioe.org!not-for-mail ?????? Three factors.

1. I do not have an active aioe account (I do hold favour with that Admin)
2. I use distinct headers to identify posts from this console.
3. I do not use my rH persona in this NG [and] providing the tosser (using it here) does not Xpost to the Sister NG (ABCP) I have no problem with the use of RH by such a minor wanker.

..all that said I have filed an abuse report as I know for 100% certainty all of the above is well beyond the comprehension of the wanker posting as

errrm..the topic (dongle-usb-port-parrallel) has been covered many times before. Folks that have to keep up with the latest and greatest are always going to have these problems. Somehow it is convenient for them to forget the Shuttle still runs (in the main) on Win98SE/NT3.

..if it Helps. As that Group largely follow MS initiatives I cannot see why it is they are not posting these questions to MS Newsgroups. Not only will they get the best of advice (for them) but their questions will let MS know there are people out there that require more than.....Ms. Festa !

lé.ÞeemÞ

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:09:27 +0930, lé.ÞeemÞ curlicued with his feathery quill:

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Oh..... he got it.......! Right in the kisser....! /tinkle

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Sic 'em Rex....

Dottie may have just got here, I don't know that.

That's a little rough! It's not "convenient" to forget the old operating systems. It's just a shock when you are forced to buy Vista and it's CRAP!! Dottie has software dating back to 2000 .... I still have my Version 5 disks (and they are floppies), and the VIP. It doesn't sound like she has had to have the "latest and greatest" for a long time. Yeah... I knoowwww..... if we wanna use the old stuff we have to know what it works on and how long the shelf life is ......../sigh..... It's just that a Model T Ford is still driveable, nobody has come up with a better mouse trap either....why just make computer people's lives miserable by changing the format so radically?! Software now has a use by date that hasn't become apparent until the last few years. It's just more ways to make you have to part with your money.

Your "buyer beware" (my Latin is rusty - caveat emptor?) warnings are never more so relevant as now. Sewing software purchased for $1000's of dollars has a computer life of how long now? Who knows until Microslop decide to change the rules. And change them they will.

And you think Microslop Megadollars Corp are listening to the plebs.....?? roflmao!! Husqvarna went ballistic over the hasp conflict on version 3D with XP

- and there are STILL conflicts with 4D and Vista. Microslop gave them the "bird".

Pixie :-)

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:09:27 +0930, lé.ÞeemÞ curlicued with his feathery quill:

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Oh..... he got it.......! Right in the kisser....! /tinkle

...

Sic 'em Rex....

Dottie may have just got here, I don't know that.

That's a little rough! It's not "convenient" to forget the old operating systems. It's just a shock when you are forced to buy Vista and it's CRAP!! Dottie has software dating back to 2000 .... I still have my Version 5 disks (and they are floppies), and the VIP. It doesn't sound like she has had to have the "latest and greatest" for a long time. Yeah... I knoowwww..... if we wanna use the old stuff we have to know what it works on and how long the shelf life is ......../sigh..... It's just that a Model T Ford is still driveable, nobody has come up with a better mouse trap either....why just make computer people's lives miserable by changing the format so radically?! Software now has a use by date that hasn't become apparent until the last few years. It's just more ways to make you have to part with your money.

Your "buyer beware" (my Latin is rusty - caveat emptor?) warnings are never more so relevant as now. Sewing software purchased for $1000's of dollars has a computer life of how long now? Who knows until Microslop decide to change the rules. And change them they will.

And you think Microslop Megadollars Corp are listening to the plebs.....?? roflmao!! Husqvarna went ballistic over the hasp conflict on version 3D with XP

- and there are STILL conflicts with 4D and Vista. Microslop gave them the "bird".

-- rH//phlat_arse//Pixie :-( Gutless Wonder (Coward)

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Hi phlat_arse - How's your *limp* Dongle?

...snipped... ~ ~ As that Group largely follow MS initiatives I cannot see why it ~ is they are not posting these questions to MS Newsgroups. ~ Not only will they get the best of advice (for them) but their ~ questions will let MS know there are people out there that ~ require more than.....Ms. Festa ! ~ ...snipped

The question you ask is very simple to answer. Most sewing folks are not experts on newsgroups. Most hang around on Yahoo groups which are a lot more touchy feely. Most of these groups are moderated and the moderators are more relaxed on the users breaking basic netiquette rules. They may get a very gentle reminder to follow protocol. To venture into a Usenet newsgroup where flamers and trolls run rampant would be a huge step and probably outside the comfort level of many of these sewers. Many have only found their way to the sewing groups by way of someone clearly pointing the way. The problems they have is sewing related and therefore directed to a sewing group.

I agree that this problem is a MS one and many of the sewing software companies are working on it, but that does not help the home sewer in the mean time. It is a very unfortunate thing but not new. The other unfortunate part is that computers can crash without any notice and when a new machine is purchased it tends to come fully loaded with the newest and best (sic) software available. Again, many home sewers do not think it may be necessary to speak to the salesman about the software they plan on running. I honestly doubt that a young computer salesman who is drooling for the commission will understand how dongles work (or don't work). They will most likely assume that most new OS, will handle old software. It is usually the case that older OS will not handle new software, but this is "usually" due to processing speed.

Bottom line, the person in need of help is desperate and should be directed to both their software manufacturer and their OS provider for help. I would even venture to suggest that they should speak with the manufacturer of their computer. After all they are the ones who choose and installed (or provided) said operating system. If you are persistent they can provide assistance.

Why did MS change their OS so radically you asked previously? A very simple answer indeed...to copy the competitor. They did not invent "windows" after all, (ask Steve Jobs for details). So why shouldn't they attempt to emulate the look and feel of the new MAC OS with their "new" Vista? Does the unveiling of Vista have anything to do with the new MAC OS being delayed? Oh I would guess....yes. They would be very wise indeed to try to capitalize on the errors of Vista. This is not fact, just my speculations.

A solution- (might be too expensive but for me it works great) is a Macbook running windows XP. For some reason, the parallel key, hooked up to a usb converter works just fine for me. It didnt on my old dell- but on my macbook (intel based) running XP it works.

The added benefit is you can have two computers in one! and XP runs much faster on a mac then on a dell box.. (probably because there are two processors)

I am runn> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:09:27 +0930, lé.ÞeemÞ

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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:11:47 -0700, "s.h.o.y.r"

Doing a lot better than your obsessive compulsive disorder, that's for "shoyr"....

Don't look for a response over in your crossposting cesspool.

AH HA - So U have sewn up your *Pussy* !!!!! U just have a plastic attachment (Dongle) with 2 mothballs as embelishment! LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look now phatass!

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:42:10 -0700, "s.h.o.y.r" got

No, "he" did not.

You are 12, aren't you? Even that is generous. Maybe an under-endowed 10??

And you need to go back to school, or get a job.

I am sure you are, because you are the only one that gets your jokes.

Hardly an accomplishment when you have to repost stuff there yourself to get it published. It's obvious to those over there that you are playing with yourself .... again...... Did you enjoy your trip back here to read the epilogue? Epilogue means "conclusion".

TTFN

Ejucation 4 phatass: An Embellishment is anything that enhances the appearance of something without having any functional purpose. LOL

> LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>>> I am sure you are, because you are the only one that gets your jokes. >>>> Don't look for a response over in your crossposting cesspool.>>>

Your Turn k00k!

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:36:00 -0700, "s.h.o.y.r" ...yawn...

...more yawning...

phat_arse under the Pixie nym wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:36:00 -0700, "s.h.o.y.r" "s.h.o.y.r"

...yawn...

...more yawning...

Good to see you using your crafty *_snipping_* skilz phatass.

Anymore *Limp* come-back "conclusions" from you k00k??

saw Sew Savvy , write in part:

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The same can be said for the majority of Usenet subscribers. Expert status is not a prerequisite for finding the motivation to go look. The adage is "they found us they can find the other".

Please be careful of attributing text to the author who did in fact post it. The "author" you attribute...

"rH"

... is not the Author who posted the original comments. This post may help some: Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:09:27 +0930 Message-ID:

tnkx for your post.

lé.ÞeemÞ

saw Pixie , post:

The full bunch..so I read

..done. And an immediate result ! Got to be happy with that

tnkz for your post.

lé.ÞeemÞ