Date: 16 Mar 1999 22:32:18 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"? Message-ID: <xzpogltktnh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Mark Ovens's message of "Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:59:43 %2B0000" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903160854230.19918-100000@thelab.hub.org> <36EE7FEF.5B2D6587@uk.radan.com>
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Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> writes: > I find this hilarious. These "experts" jumping up and down about it > like it is new technology. They obviously don't know that proprietry > Unix boxes have had this for years. On any Sun, type ``hostid'' at the > prompt and it'll return a 32-bit hex number. The host ID on Sun workstations and servers is not a CPU serial number, it's a workstation serial number which is stored in NVRAM, and can be changed. A company I worked at did that to avoid the hassle of transferring their licenses every time they replaced the machines (which was quite often, due to the nature of their activities). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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