Michael Kiferʼs posts

Michael Kifer (kifer) has made 38 posts.

TurboFloat server as a service

Post on Dec 5, 2019

Some 1.5-2 years ago you promised that you will start providing TurboFloat server as a service. Is i…

TFS lease: is it per machine or per instance?

Post on Jan 6, 2018

Thank you. Looking forward to 4.1

Post on Jan 6, 2018

It seems that a TFS server is happy to dish out leases to any number of requests as long as they com…

TurboFloatServer bug ("successful" installation when not activated)Solved

Post on Jan 5, 2018

Great, thank you.

Post on Jan 4, 2018

Executing TurboFloatServer -i on Mac/Windows gives:... <notification>: Service installed succe…

TurboFloat: distinguishing VM from cloud

Post on Dec 31, 2017

Is here a way to distinguish whether an app runs in a "regular" VM vs. in a VM running in a cloud en…

Solo plan and TurboFloat

Post on Dec 29, 2017

And this "plus" means how many floating licenses? Up to 3K?Btw, why not write 10 instead of "Trial" …

Post on Dec 29, 2017

I just noticed that the solo plan (and the basic plan) that we have says "Trial" in the "Floating L…

TurboFloat server on virtual machine

Post on Dec 25, 2017

Is it allowed? It seems that then one could multiply these servers and thus licenses.There is a chec…

TF_Cleanup() crashesSolved

Post on Dec 25, 2017

Great, thank you very much!That crush was on Linux.On Windows this call simply hangs on me.

Post on Dec 25, 2017

To add more info, TF_Cleanup crashes with the message../../../boost_current/boost/thread/pthread/mut…

Post on Dec 22, 2017

Could it be that TF_CLEANUP() is buggy? It crashes on me about every 30th run. For concreteness, I…

Can a TF license be hijacked?

Post on Dec 25, 2017

I mean: knowing the IP:Port of the server, GUID, and TurboFloat.dat one can connect to somebody else…

Post on Dec 24, 2017

I guess, this requires knowing GUID, which makes hijacking harder.

Post on Dec 23, 2017

I have a question about how hard it is to hijack a connection to a TF license server.Suppose somebod…

Turbofloat reuse handle

Post on Dec 23, 2017

My question was why do you consider 30 mins to be short? Even for stable apps I don't want to preven…

Post on Dec 22, 2017

Can you explain why 30 mins is a good lease time and why you are considering it to be "short"?As far…

TurboFloat: App does not see changes to custom featuresSolved

Post on Dec 22, 2017

Thank you. This solves the issue. But since TFS starts rarely and runs for many days in a row, it ma…

Post on Dec 21, 2017

I have expiration date set for a TF license key.But changing this date on the LimeLM web site does n…

TurboFloat -deact buglet

Post on Dec 20, 2017

You are right in that it is not "very" cryptic, but it is QUITE cryptic, confusing, and causes your …