Re: Compass Software

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Frank Olson" <Please-use-the-email-links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> <cctvbahamas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > CSIDs
> >
> > cant say it doesnt suck
>
>
> Why would you *not* use it??  That's like leaving the "barn door" open...
> I've never had the problem "Crash" had with an employee in the 22 years
I've
> been in the business and I sincerely hope I never will.  I've worked with
> companies that employed a single installer code for all their systems and
> often wondered (at the time) what "the other guys" did.  We use a formula
> based on the account code so that every installer code is unique.  That
info
> is downloaded to the panel when it's first booted up.  The installers test
> it in and that's that.

It's companies like that which gave me nightmares in my P1 days because they
like selling accounts and "forget" to tell those companies what the CSID is.
One big one that P1 had purchased.