Re: Master password

["Robert L Bass" <robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> In this case Bass is right...

I'm always right.  It's just that sometimes I'm more right than others.  :^)

> Napco finally did post the latest 5.41
> version of their software sometime
> on or after the 8th of December...

Apparently they were working on the site since most of the files were unavailable for a few days.  Once they finished all was
working again.  Nonetheless, I liked their old website much better than the current version.

> Bass says he lets his customers use
> Quickloader software so he must have
> a technique to get it to them...

Yep, and it's a perfectly lawful one.

>> Second: he posted a default PW for
>> dealer SW ... not that big a deal...

It's common knowlegde.  In fact, the PDF instruction file and the Readme file are available all over the WWW.

> I figured he would "help" the guy out.
> With as much experience as Bass has with this Quickloader thing, I thought
> he would tell the guy how to use a SQL editor and give him a script to
> straighten out the database password thing...

I don't know how to do that or I'd share it with all of you (unlike my friend from Tampa) as well as anyone else who needed it.  IMO
the problem is a flaw in the SW but since Napco didn't hire me to write their SW they can fix it themselves.

> Perhaps reloading the software will fix
> the problem as Bass suggests.

It does and if one uses the same master password the data files will be readable.  But reloading and reconfiguring the SW is a pain.
I try to warn people so they can avoid problems.

> You've probably had to use a SQL
> editor to straighten out a few database bugs on some DVR unit, or a screwed
> up access control database at least a time or two...

Not likely.  Most of these guys don't know what SQL is.

> I guessed there was a similar type work
> around for the Quickloader thing that
> Bass would know, especially since he
> knew the problem.

Nope.  I know the problem and I know how to avoid it but I don't have a handy fix.

>> Third:  He managed to get a 'slam'
>> at an ASA regular,  Mark Leuck.

Kicks and giggles, right?

> To be fair other posters seldom miss
> a chance to get at Bass either. I think in some twisted way both sides like
> it too much to stop.
>
> If he thinks I am ignoring him out of
> slight and not concern for him as a
> fellow human being and takes offense
> at it then so be it...

I hadn't given it any thought.  You don't post trash so I try to treat you with respect.  You can ignore that or not.  Either way I
have no bone to pick with you.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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