On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:16:55AM -0600, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > > >On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:58:17PM -0600, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > >>On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:10:07PM -0600, Randy Clarksean wrote: > >>> Can I send out a binary? No ... it is a commercial code that requires a > >>> license key (based NIC card IP) in order for it to run. So ... there i= > >s no > >>> way to run it on other hardware, unless that hardware already has a lic= > >ense > >>> key. Thanks for the offers though. > >>=20 > >>ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > >>=20 > >>heh. > >>--=20 > >>Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified > >>http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 > > > >Please report yourself to the nearest DMCA reeducation center. You need > >your attitude wrt intellectual property readjusted. > > > >florin > > > >PS: Damn I feel dirty now. > > Me too; not w.r.t. intellectual property, but because a non-manufacturer > changing the MAC address of a card violates a standard! ;) Tying a license key on the "immutable" MAC address certainly violates some decency law somewhere 8^) It takes at least a couple of weeks to break a real hardware key... florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20021101/a7a1495e/attachment.pgp