26 Nov
2001
26 Nov
'01
1:03 p.m.
At 11:45 AM 11/26/01, Ethan Dicks wrote:
The original DECUS IDs were numbers, then a couple of years ago they switched
to the mix of letters. They've just recently gone back to numbers.
For those of us DECUS members who have not yet
gotten any hobbyist VAX
licenses, is it too late? I have one of the recent hobby CDs and a bunch
of 6.x originals, so media isn't a real problem, but licenses are.
Its still possible to get licenses if you have a DECUS *number.* The
original DECUS membership "ids" were a mix of letters (basically parts of
both your last and first name) and they were later changed to Encompass
membership numbers. If you have the number then the Montagar page will
accept it, if you have the old LETTER id then that page will not recognize it. What about a
project to hack LMF? There was a lot of controversy a while
back about the "Screw LMF" T-Shirt at a Symposium with, IIRC, a 5.2 and
5.3 patch (details of exact versions fuzzy). Did DEC decide to lock stuff
down after 5.x or is it still possible to simply bypass checks in LMF.EXE
to always grant a license?
Well it has been demonstrated on this list that one can "reverse engineer"
the LMF algorithm and generate your own PAKs. Presumably that is an option,
although it becomes significantly more onerous than being "legit"