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Who said anything about a floppy? If my TS5 doesn't come on a CDROM I'm
going to be very upset. To the best of my knowledge you can't copy protect
a CDROM anyway because (currently) you can't write to it. Pentium III's
can't be used for copy protection because the serial number can't be written
to the CD. And even if they were writable, this scheme is easily cracked
because the code that checks the number has to exist somewhere on the disk.
Also, there's little chance that you're going to have a removable hardrive
with windoze and TS and run it on 2 machines. This is remotely possible
with Win95 (98?) and impossible with NT (I've never seen it done). NT is
bound to the hardware configuration of the machine you installed it on
unless the other machine is identical to the original you installed to
(small chance). So what's the worry? Omega has said that TS would not use
a block and (inferred) that it would be as open as any say MS product, but
that installing a copy on a second machine wold violate the licensing
agreement. If Omega releases their product without a block and without any
contrived copy protection scheme I will have to applaud but I'm skeptical.
They'll still make bucketloads.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin B. Lake [mailto:rbl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 9:41 AM
To: he96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Re[2]: TS2000i upgrade
Sorry, but only the Pentium III supports a processor serial number
capablity. Any other PC can have all its software moved to another
machine. Some software requires the installation floppy
be written upon during the installation process, but you can
copy the install floppy BEFORE installing. The counter to this
is that some install floppies have a certain sector corrupted so that
you can not install from a good floppy!
Cheers,
Rob Lake
rbl@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Yes
> >
> > ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> > Subject: Re: TS2000i upgrade
> > Author: ED KARLIN
> > Date: 2/25/99 11:06 AM
> >
> > Is it true that TS2000i will not require a printer port block?
>
> that can only mean that TS will be bound to THE PC you use - i.e the PC
fails
> youre in trouble ! TRUE ?????
>
> last summer or spring OMEGA suggested that method and it was DEEPLY
> BOOOOED here -> afterwards they said, they will offer BOTH ways, i.e.
BLOCK
> and PCbound.......
>
> CANT ANYBODY REMEMBER ???????? like usually ?
>
> rgds hans
>
>
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