From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 16 16: 6:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE60515217 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:06:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10N3qJ-000DTV-0C; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:05:52 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id AAA00366; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:05:05 GMT Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id AAA00637; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:02:14 GMT (envelope-from marko) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:02:14 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"? Message-ID: <19990317000214.C260@marder-1.localhost> References: <36EE7FEF.5B2D6587@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:32:18PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:32:18PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Mark Ovens writes: > > 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, I realize that, but it's the same _type_ of thing and could be used in the same way as the PIIIs serial number. The point I was making is that the idea is not new, which judging by the reaction to the PIII you'd think it was. > 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). I didn't realize that the could be changed. We never do, we just make a new licence file. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message