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I hope Omega does not do that with their software. I know someone who
bought some software like that, and it would run on only one computer and
guess what, he had computer trouble, upgraded and bought a new faster
computer and his software would not run without a new password! So he tried
to get in touch with the spftware company and guess what? They are out of
bussiness and he can't use his software any more! I would think long and
hard before I bought software that used the users computer to generate a
password so it wpould work on only one computer! I know people who upgrade
computer every year or two and software like that would be useless to them!
Does anyone know if there is a way to use software like this if say a
company has gone out of bussiness? How can one some how generate a password
own his own? Any ideas? Omega I hate the Doggle, but it is better that
what I described above, so don't do it!!
At 10:58 AM 1/28/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I've had software (Elliott Wave Analyzer) which is locked to the drive. I
>needed a new password when a) disk drive crashed and I swapped in a new
>drive, b) when I changed file system from FAT to NTFS, and c) when I
>repartitioned drive. I provided the developer with some code used in his
>system so we had a relationship of some trust. In each case, the software
>would (at my request) gather the new drive config info and email it to the
>developer who provided a new password during regular business hours. I
>suspect that an organization which is more hard-nosed about security would
>be more difficult to deal with. Also, I have to wonder if the new Diskkeeper
>3.0 NT defragger which can completely reorg an NT drive during pre-boot
>might break such a scheme.
>
>Earl
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MarkBrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <MarkBrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 2:03 PM
>Subject: Re: E*TRADE and Omega Research Marketing Alliance
>
>
>>expire on me some monday morning when I got a load of trades on. Omega told
>me they were
>>doing away with the security block for the printer port, but would have new
>security that would
>>assure them complete security. I can already tell you I bet they are going
>to lock the software
>>to the hard drive some how. This would mean if you change hard drives your
>out of luck, ect.
>>I hope I'm wrong but I got this feeling after talking to Mitch, it is a
>wickedly thorough method,
>>whatever it is.
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