Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:39:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: marko@uk.radan.com, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"? Message-ID: <199903180039.RAA21834@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpogltktnh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Mar 16, 99 10:32:18 pm
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> > 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). Actually, I neglected the circuitous route through the forth interpreter. It's actually much easier to just replace the system call, which you can do without needing to reboot. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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