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Old Mar 30, 2005 | 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Dark_Sub_Rosa,Mar 30 2005, 09:21 AM
wtf is dongle?

is there a dongleberry?
A dongle is the connector between a network card and the CAT5 cable.
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Old Mar 31, 2005 | 06:19 AM
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haha.. the dongle...
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Old Mar 31, 2005 | 05:27 PM
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I used to use a software package that you had to have a dongle for ... fitted on the parallel port and the software had to "speak" to it every now and again. It was a way to stop you using the software on more than one computer at a time .....
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Old Apr 1, 2005 | 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by tokyo_james,Mar 31 2005, 09:27 PM
I used to use a software package that you had to have a dongle for ... fitted on the parallel port and the software had to "speak" to it every now and again. It was a way to stop you using the software on more than one computer at a time .....
And that would be the second definition of dongle
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Old Apr 1, 2005 | 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by tokyo_james,Mar 31 2005, 08:27 PM
I used to use a software package that you had to have a dongle for ... fitted on the parallel port and the software had to "speak" to it every now and again. It was a way to stop you using the software on more than one computer at a time .....
yep...a hardware key. I used to deal with those.
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Old Apr 1, 2005 | 05:16 PM
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now there are those usb bluetooth dongles.
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Old Apr 19, 2005 | 10:49 PM
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The worst is "'puter" for computer. Please tell me that is just a lame mid-west thing.
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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 06:41 AM
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what about clicking the mouse...... oh thats not really a computer term though
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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 06:47 AM
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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Dark_Sub_Rosa,Mar 30 2005, 10:21 AM
wtf is dongle?

is there a dongleberry?
dongleberry - the connector between a computer and a blackberry
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