[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I�ve been working on a small registration concept >>> recently. I�ve got a stack that generarates a >>> registration code of 8 characters taken >>> from name and a codeword e.g. email adress. >> >> Hi Malte, >> >> I'm interested too in some code that permits a stack >> to runs only in the machine in which it was installed. >> >> Those machine are running Windows XP. >> I've read about getting the hard disk serial number >> in the Developers Tips from Ken Ray's website. >> >> My guess is that a combination of the serial of >> the hard disk and the ID number of the Ethernet card >> could be a good combination. But, I don't know how to >> get the id of the ethernet card. > >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Alejandro > ===================== > > Mr Tejada, > > I suggest your reconsider the Ethernet card ID as a "permanent" part of a > system. In more than one company in which I've worked, it was very common to > swap-out Ethernet cards for a variety of reasons.
There may be many good reasons the biggest players in the industry don't do things like that. Most of them use a much simpler scheme of non-user-specific reg codes. Sure, piracy is unpleasant, but unless you're in an unusually piracy-prone market (music tools come to mind) why take a larger percentage of your time away from feature development to work on security than the major software publishers do? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
