Joseph,
That probably would work out nicely - the Mac is more the issue as far as Im
concerned...I am sure as GAMoore said, there are ways to do it, but I just
havent had time to dig it up yet. Any ideas for OSX?
-seanA
> Since M$ has already gone to great lengths to create a hardware based key
> couldn't you just use the product id of windows? While this is a suggestion
> - it's also a question? Would it work to just go to the registry and base
> it on the PID?
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ProductId
>
> ~ joe
>
> Joseph Claeys
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> I've only been using macs for a short while but if you enter the command
> 'ioreg -l | grep IOPlatformSerialNumber' in the console it will return the
> system serial number. It's the same number reported by the system profiler.
> Not sure how unique it is though.
>
> hth
> Simon
>
> On 27/09/2004, at 9:49 AM, Christian Schmitz wrote:
>
>> Sean Arney <sean at rulessoftware dot com> wrote:
>>
>>> The Win call works great except that sometimes we have found that
>>> some HDs have the same serial numbers!!
>>
>> This is okay, as the serial number is just a 32bit value stored in the
>> first bytes of the hard disc.
>>
>> 10 years ago I wrote DOS applications to read/write the serial
>> number...
>>
>> Mfg
>> Christian
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