On Saturday 19 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: [...] >The Steinberg dongle seems to be ok, since it's from the 80ies or >beginning 90ies and was used for several years without getting broken. >But exactly because it's that old I fear it could break one day. > >I 'guess' that I also could get cracked versions of Cubase for the >Atari, but while the dongle version is 100% stable and the latest >version ever made for the Atari, there aren't cracks for the latest >version and the cracks I know were '99%' stable.
Since most of those dongles back then were themselves protected by grinding the part numbers off the chip, that damage to the expoxy-B covering is probably largely responsible for their short life, both from the instant heating caused by the grinding, but also from moisture migrating into the assembly through the damaged epoxy-B coating. >For Windows there are dongle hacks available by torrent, they do work >'99,9999999999999%' ok and can be used with cracks, 'I heard'. Dunno if >they would work with bought software too, this might be interesting for >people who bought the original and wish to use it on wine. > >I 'guess' I could get all I need for Windows as a crack, but I don't >like cracks and I can't pay for legal versions and I don't wish to have >USB dongles. Btw. I don't like the 'philosophy' of Microsoft. >While bus dongles using oldish gate chips, are less damageable, I don't >trust USB micro controllers. >When I was young I tuned my motorbikes and cracked software and used >software other people cracked. Juvenile law isn't valid for me today, >just one reason not to use cracks. And when I was a juvenile, transistors had not been invented yet. ;-) >While open sources might not be important to everybody, people also >might not care about malign US major corporation, at least keeping our >own slates clean is a reason to get Linux more capable for music too. Naw, I'm not the least bit allergic to tweaking the M$ nose. :) Their little 'easter eggs' that cause the loss of an important file that can only be replaced by purchasing a new copy of the os, in this case NT-4.0, have bit me enough times that I have no respect for M$ for about 20 years now. My limited experience with XP showed that it did work, but never felt like a true os to me, just patches to DOS. Their most stable was 95, it ran for 46 days at a time, till the tick counter rolled over. Reboot on day 45 and everything was cool. I would have to assume that DOS-6.22 also suffered from that, we had one of those that crashed about every month & a half but never had the clues to point a finger at that. Just one of those things... >2 cents, Mine too. But I'd imagine the list people are about to police us, this is sort of off topic. ;( >Ralf > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Q: How do you fix all Windows bugs at once? A: Type DELTREE C:\WINDOWS _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
