As I'm cheering Eric on our worship pastor texts me a picture of an error message he is getting with MediaShout on his office computer. MediaShout is presentation software that we use in all of our worship spaces for projection graphics, background, lyrics, etc. I wasn't able to figure out his problem via text message so I headed towards his office thinking it would be a relatively quick fix. As any IT person does, I Googled the problem and the first hit I got was this link. The lead story is about the Activation Error that we were getting. The details of this issue, affecting all instances of MediaShout are available here. ![]() Since they don't go into any great detail to explain the actual issue that gives me license to explain it the way I see it. It would appear that some software engineer somewhere along the way didn't do this job and then the quality assurance person who is supposed to help the software engineer get it right also failed to do their job. As a result the software was released with a time/date bug that on a Thursday night, software that is used at churches all over the country on Sunday would stop working because it couldn't tell if the software was legally activated or not. ![]() I understand, to some degree, the need for software companies to have activation routines in order to prevent software piracy and theft.
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