From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 17 16:40:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE86714C0A for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22586; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:40:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd022539; Wed Mar 17 17:39:58 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA21834; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:39:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199903180039.RAA21834@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"? To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:39:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: marko@uk.radan.com, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Mar 16, 99 10:32:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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