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Quote from IDL Installing and Licensing Guide IDL 5.5: p.85-86 Licensing for Alpha Linux "When you 180-day period expires, you will need to repeat this process to maintain your RSI software in licensed mode." So, IDL 5.5 on Linux Alpha is hard-coded to require a new licence every 6 months!?! We had problems installing, I know, but little did I realise that the "temporary" license they gave us "until it's sorted out" was in fact forever. Licences on our other machines (UNIX) run indefinitely - if one chooses not to upgrade (ie. pay) one at least keeps the old version, no RSI support necessary. IDL5.5 is the last release for Linux Alpha (AFAIK). So I can't upgrade, so I won't be paying for upgrades... except I will have to, otherwise RSI won't give me support to generate new licences. Excuse the rant, but the 5.5 installer just killed my workstation and now I find out I'm on 180 day licenses until... well, until RSI stop supporting 5.5, which won't be many multiples of 180 days. Ciao.
the_cacc@hotmail.com (trouble) wrote in message news:<5f9f0a23.0202050337.672072f2@posting.google.com>... > Quote from IDL Installing and Licensing Guide IDL 5.5: > > p.85-86 Licensing for Alpha Linux > "When you 180-day period expires, you will need to repeat this process > to maintain your RSI software in licensed mode." > > So, IDL 5.5 on Linux Alpha is hard-coded to require a new licence > every 6 months!?! We had problems installing, I know, but little did I > realise that the "temporary" license they gave us "until it's sorted > out" was in fact forever. > > Licences on our other machines (UNIX) run indefinitely - if one > chooses not to upgrade (ie. pay) one at least keeps the old version, > no RSI support necessary. IDL5.5 is the last release for Linux Alpha > (AFAIK). So I can't upgrade, so I won't be paying for upgrades... > except I will have to, otherwise RSI won't give me support to generate > new licences. > > Excuse the rant, but the 5.5 installer just killed my workstation and > now I find out I'm on 180 day licenses until... well, until RSI stop > supporting 5.5, which won't be many multiples of 180 days. > > Ciao. You have my sympathy, IDL support of the alphaLINUX platform is apalling, I have had all the same problems and complaints you have. In addition you may be interested to know the results of some performance tests done by IDL themselves comparing IDL running on true64 to LINUX: The numbers are time to run for 15 different programs. > Here are the results fom an alpha linux test machine: > { alpha linux unix linux 5.5 Aug 28 2001 64 64} > 1 360 ms > 2 280 ms > 3 63 ms > 4 61 ms > 5 79 ms > 6 82 ms > 9 114 ms > 12 275 ms > 13 63 ms > 14 78 ms > 15 79 ms > > > A computer that is almost identical to the Alpha Linux test > machine, but instead it has Alpha OSF1 v 5.1 operating system > installled: > { alpha OSF unix Compaq Tru64 5.5.1 Feb 6 2002 64 64} > 1 26 ms > 2 29 ms > 3 33 ms > 4 35 ms > 5 43 ms > 6 47 ms > 9 61 ms > 12 27 ms > 13 34 ms > 14 43 ms > 15 50 ms Sorry to add to your woes but my advice is move platform or ditch IDL.
In article <10e8o4b71tcdn5a@corp.supernews.com>, Michael Wallace <mwallace.no.spam@no.spam.swri.edu.invalid> wrote: > > Also, I'm trying to figure out another licensing issue that RSI hasn't > made clear. If I create a new IDL session, I will use one of our > floating licenses. Now, if I start up a second IDL session with the > same username on the same computer, do I chew up another license? When > I talked with RSI last, my contact indicated that another license would > get used. However, when I look at the results from lmstat -a, I only > see one entry for my computer/username no matter how many IDL sessions I > start. So, am I really chewing up extra licenses and lmstat -a doesn't > show all the computer/username duplicates, or am I really just using one > license? > I'm pretty sure you only use one license per username/computer as long as they're also on the same display (in the case of Unix versions and X-windows) as well. --Mike -- Michael Chinander m-chinander@uchicago.edu Department of Radiology University of Chicago