Policy Statement on Program Security and Authenticity

Microsoft's Authenticode technology has been used to sign the listed ActiveX cabinet (.CAB) files with a digital test certificate. This allows Internet Explorer users the option of downloading and using these files; without such a signature, Explorer does not do this.

I (William A. Levinson) am the creator of all ActiveX programs that are hosted in the domains ct-yankee.com (The Connecticut Yankee) and ganesha.org (Ganesha Book Promoting and Consulting). If you download an ActiveX program from one of these domains, you can be confident that I wrote the program and that it has not been modified by someone else; I am the only person who is authorized to modify content in either of these domains.

The programs are freeware, and there is no copyright problem with someone copying them onto another Web site or onto a disk for distribution. If you obtain them from a source other than ct-yankee.com or ganesha.org, however, I cannot guarantee their authenticity; use such versions only if you consider the source trustworthy.
 

ActiveX Program Information

Program	Function	Uploaded on:	Size of .CAB file, as hosted
Procsim.CAB	Process simulator	10/14/99	18728 bytes
sampplan.CAB	Acceptance sampling plan design	8/11/99	25086 bytes

Copyright and Disclaimer

1. All programs/spreadsheets are copyrighted, and all rights are reserved.
2. The programs are freeware. You may download and distribute them freely, provided that all copyright and authorship information is left in place.
3. This freeware carries no warranties, express or implied, regarding fitness for use.
• Your remedy for any dissatisfaction is a full refund of your purchase price :-)
• No freeware offered here constitutes engineering advice or an engineering design service. Such services must be rendered personally, or under the direct supervision of, qualified engineers.
• To the best of my knowledge, the ActiveX documents are safe to run on your computer. They are not designed to access the hard drive (unless you instruct them to save a report to a file, in which case that's all they will do). I have tested them on mine.

Notes on Problems with ActiveX in Internet Explorer

ActiveX programs require Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (Service Pack 2 or higher) or version 5 to operate.(download for free from Microsoft). They are ActiveX documents from Visual Basic 5.0. I have not yet been able to get these programs to work with Internet Explorer 3.0, but I have run them on two different computers with IE 4.0. Comments are welcome.

ActiveX Troubleshooting note: Microsoft Developer Network Library, April 1999

     Problem 4:

     A dialog box with the following messages appear in Internet Explorer:
        Opening file <ActiveX Document>.VBD
        What would you like to do with this file?
        Open it or Save it to disk.

Resolution 4:
This error occurs because the Visual Basic 5.0 Run-time Library (MSVBVM50.DLL) is not installed. This will most likely occur if the Internet Explorer safety level is set to High. Set the Internet Explorer safety level to Medium or None.

I have found that you sometimes have to try to load the ActiveX program twice; it loads properly the second time.