Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This was an old trick from the DEC PDP-11 days. If your boss did not renew the service contract on the software, you simply changed the computer's internal clock. It worked until the service guy got there and raised a stink. I have not seen this done in a long time..... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net I don't know what excuse the rest of you have but a lot of trial and beta software uses the system clock to tell how many days it has been on your computer. If the software has a 30 trial period, it becomes non-functional a month after you install it. By resetting your system clock to an earlier date, you can fool the software to keep it functioning. Well - it's really cheap but slightly more honest than illegally copying software. Larry Z