Release 3 Type Upgrade?

[Matt85]

Has anyone done a remote upgrade before without using a flash card? Is this method ok or not suggested. I currently have SX200icp v2.2.0.11 and did a full backup to my computer. Or I could do a Local upgrade and put the backup file on the flashcard, or an Initial and do a full system restore once but then i would have to reprogrammed my IP settings which is a pain. Please let me know. Thanks

Matthew McGowan
Reynolds Park

http://www.rpyc.info

 

[paterson]

You are NOT able to do a REMOTE FTP upgrade from any previous release to Release 3. You can only do a LOCAL upgrade with the Compact Flash Card. I would do the FTP database backup then do a Local software upgrade (not the Initial). All your settings for IP will still be there. You should not need the FTP backup unless something goes wrong with the LOCAL upgrade.

Good Luck!

 

[Matt85]

THANKS worked great!

Matthew McGowan
Reynolds Park

http://www.rpyc.info

 

[Matt85]

The GUI looks the same! its just point and click instead. not what i had in mind. kinda boring still. is this what 3300icp is like?

Matthew McGowan
Reynolds Park

http://www.rpyc.info

 

[paterson]

Glad everything worked out. I agree, GUI is a bit plain.

No the 3300ICP GUI is better, or atleast it is more "sexy" looking, haha.

 

[MitelInMyBlood]

Only my opinion, but the GUI is a solution to a problem that didn't exist.

Anyone halfway "keyboard-fluent" knows the frustration in watching a co-worker type a hundred words a minute but yet has to stop and move his/her hand a full foot or more to take hold of the $@#! mouse, then fumble with hand/eye coordination while they drag the cursor over to the [ENTER] button and click on it.

Judas Priest!

And all while the <enter> key was right there within 5 centimeters reach of the right pinky finger.

Of course any true "keyboarder" among you who has ever used OpsMan know that the same "mouse-mentality" of the keyboard-impaired typist was directly responsible for that abomination of a user interface ;-)
Without a doubt OpsMan will one day go down in the annals of history as the single most clumsy combination of the mouse and keyboard any programmer has ever written.
Apparently the keyboard of that era had neither a <TAB> nor <ENTER> key.

 

[Matt85]

I agree I think it easier to use the telnet version. The only Pro to it that I can think of is I can access it from any computer on the network. Its like release 1 was good because I could use hyperterminal and every computer had that. Then release 2 they took a step backwards in that you had to use a stupid secure telnet so I had to download a special version on every computer I wanted to use. Now they kinda to a 1/2 step forward with the GUI but honestly it SUCKS. I can't believe that call that a GUI interface. Its suppose to be a GRAPHICAL user interface I don't see anything graphical about taking the same exact format from telnet and making it clickable when you see have to use the keyboard to type in the options you want to change. I could have make something way better with my little bit of C++ or Visual Basic programming I learned in highschool. I don't even think they changed the architecture of the program because if you look closely it uses java i think to convert the clicks back into the telnet keystrokes. If i want to go from form 47 to 50(or anything) you can see how it takes a while like its pressing ESC 6 then it goes back for the main form screen then waiting while it is typing 50 then loading.

Matthew McGowan
Reynolds Park

http://www.rpyc.info

 

[MitelInMyBlood]

Another possible pro, the inclusion of the help file, altho it is not context-sensitive like it is in the 3300