Re: MB Pro Battery Failure

From	Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject	Re: MB Pro Battery Failure
Date	2015-07-30 10:14 -0400
Organization	albasani.net
Message-ID	<mpdbga$9k5$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink)
References	<290720151211192722%star@sky.net> <mpbka4$sub$1@news.albasani.net> <290720152122042976%star@sky.net>

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On 7/29/15 9:22 PM, Davoud wrote:
> In article <mpbka4$sub$1@news.albasani.net>, Aldo Raine
> <apache@scalpem.net> wrote:
>
> Davoud:
>>> ...This laptop is important to me because
>>> it contains a piece of astronomy software that is no longer available
>>> and that the a-hole developer who sold it does not allow it to be
>>> transferred to a new machine...
>
>> This would be Plan C or maybe Plan D, but if it all goes south, pull the
>> HD, stick it in an external USB housing, then jack it into your new
>> computer when you want to run that program.
>
> Nope. The developer was onto that old trick. The software license is
> tied to something or other in the computer's hardware. It cannot be
> made to run on a machine other than the one on which it was registered
> after installation. And it had to be registered or it wouldn't run.
>

I remember those days from the 80's...

-- 
I think of myself as a man's man. I like my whiskey neat, my steaks 
rare, and my Pop-Tarts untoasted.
						- @patsajak

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