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scott wrote:
>> for an envelope containing a sheet of paper with a number printed on
>> it. Like, WTF?)
>
> Hehe, we just paid about 4000 pounds for a 46 byte text file :-)
...??!
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>>> for an envelope containing a sheet of paper with a number printed on it.
>>> Like, WTF?)
>>
>> Hehe, we just paid about 4000 pounds for a 46 byte text file :-)
>
> ...??!
License server key for some additional packages in our CAD software. The
actual CAD software DVDs include *everything* (I hate to imagine the cost of
buying that), but packages/features are unlocked depending on your license
key. If you want to unlock more features, you just pay them some money and
they send you a new license key.
In theory you could work out how they generate the key (they use the MAC
address somehow to generate it) and then generate your own key to unlock
everything!
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scott wrote:
> License server key for some additional packages in our CAD software.
> The actual CAD software DVDs include *everything* (I hate to imagine the
> cost of buying that), but packages/features are unlocked depending on
> your license key. If you want to unlock more features, you just pay
> them some money and they send you a new license key.
>
> In theory you could work out how they generate the key (they use the MAC
> address somehow to generate it) and then generate your own key to unlock
> everything!
to send us a code number to allow us to install it on another server.
As my boss at the time muttered, "it seems we're in the wrong line of
business".
(Seriously, why bother running a big expensive lab when we could just
sit around all day charging people extortionate amounts of mony to write
psuedorandom numbers on sheets of paper...)
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Invisible wrote:
> (Seriously, why bother running a big expensive lab when we could just
> sit around all day charging people extortionate amounts of mony to write
> psuedorandom numbers on sheets of paper...)
Or charge people huge amounts of money for just a set of keys (that gives
them access to a house).
They don't charge for the number, they charge for what the number will give
you access to.
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scott wrote:
> generate your own key to unlock everything!
http://www.google.com/#q=keygen
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Invisible wrote:
> As my boss at the time muttered, "it seems we're in the wrong line of
> business".
Manufacturing trumps service any time. That's one of the things I don't like
about GPL software. It turns programming into a service job instead of a
manufacturing job.
It happens with payment systems too. Every time I build a payment system, I
get paid $0.03 for every $10 porn sale some college kid makes. Wrong
business indeed.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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> http://www.google.com/#q=keygen
Perhaps I won't be trying that at work :-)
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scott wrote:
>> Can you get an argument list? How about type information?
>
> No. No.
IMHO these 2 options would make good optional features if you would like
to truly make a public .dll.
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> Did anybody else notice that, unlike every other GUIDE on the planet,
> these ones have a *pattern* in them?
>
> CAFE-EFAC? Oh, that's cute. ABCDEF-FEDCBA? Come on, guys...
Reminds of the old Acorn days, they used to use DEAD or DEAD-DEAD quite
frequently to mark stuff ;-)
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> I found a DLL called autodisk.dll which exports half a dozen functions and
> hundreds of COM methods and properties. I found several other DLLs which
> apparently export... absolutely nothing. (Why do they exist then?)
Just been reading about .net assemblies, these are also saved as .dll files
but won't expose any "traditional" functions, maybe you found some of these
too. BTW the .net assemblies contain type and parameter info in the .dll
file, so with a suitable tool (or with a few commands from a .net language)
you can find out what's in there.
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