Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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no more dangly donglesi'm a CAD technician (structural, civil & geotechnical, if you're bothered!), maybe i can help?
AutoCAD (in the uk) hasn't used dongles for years - i started using the program in 2001 and have never even seen one.
I once went to a seminar presented by Autodesk (for Architectural Desktop 2006, i think) and a large part was about piracy and how they were combatting it.
From what my brain can remember of that hungover morning, every .dwg file contains code that includes all the details of the licence holder and their purchased package records etc and i'm pretty sure that they are within their rights to audit any customer at any time. They can quite easily tell if you are running a moody copy with a dodgy serial number or are running multiple machines on a single licence and can absolutely rape companies and individuals if they are found to be doing this...i forget the exact punishments but i remember thinking they were very harsh. they focus more on selling and marketing the network licences these days as it's impossible to exceed your allowance because it simply won't run unless you get someone else to close theirs down.
i could tell you more, but i'm even boring myself!! Must be the 'Ortho' side of my personality!!
hah, I am lame as fuck!
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