I haven't owned a mac since 8.5, but I'm always tempted to return. It
surprises me that Apple doesn't employ a product activation scheme of some
sort. Maybe REAL could be cajoled into writing a simply function that
returns a unique identifier for all platforms -e.g. UniqueID()
I have read on this and other programming lists/forums how futile it is to
even try to protect your product using a protection scheme... But I
disagree. Sure those that participate on those lists may be able to defeat
any given protection scheme... However most people aren't programmers and
don't troll warez groups so even a modest level of protection will protect
you from all but the most determined.
That said, I give my stuff away (thus far) but I empathize...
~ joe
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Sean
Arney
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 4:11 PM
To: RB Getting Started
Subject: Re: hard disk code
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
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> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 7:41 AM
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> Subject: Re: hard disk code
>
> 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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