[bookport] Re: Upgrade Confusion
- From: "Joni Colver" <joni.colver@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 03:53:33 -0500
Thanks Rob, Dave, John and others for clarification on this issue and for
reassurance about this version of the firmware. I hesitate to do anything
that might cause any problems with the Book Port because I would truly be
lost without it! I will probably go ahead and download it later after work
and some home repairs are over for the day. I appreciate all of the
thoughts and information.
Joni
----- Original Message -----
From: "John McCann" <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
Hello fellow listers:
I just thought I'd write a brief clarifying post on this subject. As you all
know, there has been extensive beta testing going on since the beginning of
this year directed at developing and releasing firmware version 2.0. As I
understand it, those who signed up to be beta testers were given a special
link from which they could download each new beta as it became available. I
elected not to be a beta tester, and, subsequent to september 2004, was
never presented with a "download new firmware" option upon connecting my
bookport. Of course, upon hearing that version 2.0 had been released on
tuesday, May 17th, I immediately connected up the book port and fired up the
book port transfer program, whereupon I was invited to download the new
firmware, which I happily did. Then, on june 3rd, there was a tweak to
version 2.0, which was labeled beta, but, unlike the myriad other betas that
had been out there between september of 04 and may of 05, this time it was
put out there in such a way that the automatic update protocol caught it.
Now, folks have talked about two glitches with the june 3rd version, but
these glitches are very minor, and I would unhesitatingly recommend for
anyone to download the latest available version, even though it is labeled a
beta. The smart money says that the "searching" glitches will be fixed
fairly soon, at which time APH will make the "tweak of the tweak" available;
hopefully omitting the "beta" designation to avoid this confusion...and
Joanny's trepidation.
John
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