Re: [APML] Registar

[George Anderson <georgea@cam.org>]

Thanks for the correction Philip, hopefully my assumption hasn't put
anyone off of registar. The prcedure I described is one that is fairly
common with a lot of software.

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health

Philip Perkins wrote:
> 
> Hi George,
> 
> Generation of the RegiStar license key is done automatically by machine,
> not by human. It does not matter what time of the day or night you make the
> request, and the response with a new key is always within seconds.  Since
> first purchasing RegiStar I have requested somewhere around 8 new license
> keys with no problem at all.  I have RegiStar running on three computers
> but they have all been upgraded, which requires a new key, and I needed a
> new key for an NT machine after installing a new HD controller card - a
> substantial enough change to alter the 'signature' of the machine, I
> guess.  If it's a straight re-installation on the same machine then the
> original license key can be used.
> 
> IMO this is a much quicker and cleaner process than the registration
> process with MaximDL, for example.  In my experience there have *always*
> been problems and if you allow the process to take its own sweet time you
> can wait anywhere between 1-2 weeks for a new license key.  By really
> rattling the cage it should be possible to get a new key within a couple of
> days.
> 
> Also the MaximDL 3.x upgrade cost quite a lot of money whereas I have paid
> once only for RegiStar and they have come out with some nice enhancements
> since the original version.
> 
> To answer some other recent questions:  RegiStar supports all types of
> images - it makes no difference whether it's film or CCD - I have used it
> many times to align CCD images.  It works with 16 bit images and also fully
> supports the FITS astronomical image format.  As far as I am aware there is
> no image size limit (other than constraints imposed by the computer
> hardware environment) - it certainly handles TIFF images of around 500Mb.
> 
> It's surprisingly versatile too - I have used it to accurately align
> hundreds of webcam lunar images where it treated the highlighted peaks of
> craters as "stars".  The alignment was far more accurate than Registax for
> example, because RegiStar was able to correct scaling distortions caused by
> atmospheric turbulence.
> 
> Regards
> --Philip
> -------
> 
> At 00:36 18/10/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi Steve
> >
> >I think the point that Jerry was trying to make is that you need to
> >contact Auriga Imaging everytime you change computers/upgrade
> >hardrives/re-build hard drives etc. Not that Auriga prevented you from
> >doing so, but that at 12:00 LA time your computer crashes and you are
> >trying to get an image out to press (or whatever). So you re-format the
> >drive, re-install windows, re install PS and are about to reinstall
> >registar when it tell you to contact them for an authentication code.
> >What if it is outside business hours and the product support/customer
> >service is not 24/7? In that case you are stuffed and won't get that
> >image out to your printer in time because you have to wait for an
> >authentication number to finish installing the software.
> >
> >George Anderson
> >Montreal Canada
> >
> >Clear skies and good health
> >
> >steve banbury wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi--with reference to a note by Jerry L. earlier today, I was able to
> > > place a second copy of my purchased version of Registar on my second
> > > computer completely within the constraints of their licensing agreement
> > > quoted below.
> > >
> > > Their software is super, and this licensing arrangement seems pretty
> > > reasonable to me.
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > "Within reason, you are entitled to install RegiStar on any machine you
> > > personally own and are the principal user of.  Please read the license
> > > agreement at: www.aurigaimaging.com/license.html
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