Frank Cox wrote:
so if it would work, replace shortname with short and short1?
With all of this hokey-pokey surrounding licensing and mac addresses, I wonder if this outfit is actually still in compliance with the terms of their license for this software, whatever it may be?
If the software licensed to run only on Machine X and Machine X has now been junked and replace by Machine Y, then isn't the solution to obtain a license for the software for Machine Y or be out-of compliance regardless of the technical ability to spoof whatever it's looking for?
It's apparently a very good molecular modeling program, and to be real, my users tell me that the company that bought the original company wants, and I'm not making this up, $15k US to generate a license for a new workstation. And there's two? three? workstations that run it.
And this is a US gov't agency (civilian secrot). Budget? We don' need no steenkeen budgets, the Magic Hand of the Market will produce all the results we need.....
mark "not including building maintenance budgets"