Re: Ekta Install Help

[Todd Phenneger <phen9461@uidaho.edu>]

Ahh,
	I must have missed the whole Family album Posts.  But I have seen
it on the list lately.  makes sense.  Anyhow, thanks

	Todd Phenneger
	1983 ur-q / black / getting a MC
	1984 4000 quattro / modified/ turbo conv almost done.
	1987 4000 quattro / Saphire Metallic Blue/ Girlfriend's
	1996 A6q / Volcano / Dads Car
   *****1985 5kt / PARTING OUT!

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Ti Kan wrote:

> Aleksander Mierzwa wrote:
> > Original ET... I mean, Family Pictures need a hardware key to run. The
> > version which circulated through Q-list some time ago is hacked so it
> > doesn't need the key.
> 
> Todd Phenneger writes:
> > What the heck do you mean.  In English??  Whats an ET.  How does this
> > effect my program not running.  Whats a Key.  If I dont need it, why does
> > it matter?
> 
> ET?  Aleksander just blurbed out the partial name for our family album CD.
> You know, "ETxx".
> 
> Anyway, a hardware key is a device that plugs in to your computer
> (usually the parallel port).  The software will attempt to read the
> hardware key when it starts up.  If the key is not located the software
> doesn't start.  This is a fairly common copy-protection scheme employed
> by some software applications.
> 
> As Aleksander says, most of the family album CDs that we qlisters have
> were hacked by someone, so that the hardware key is not needed.
> 
> -Ti
> 96 A4 2.8 quattro
> 84 5000S 2.1 turbo
> 80 4000 2.0
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