A dongle dingle

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 20/12/2017 09:06:12:

But still no suggestions of where to get a dingle dongle.

All I want is a dingle dongle to dangle on the Christmas Tree…

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R.I.P. Chuck Berry !!

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Danny M2Z on 20/12/2017 09:05:11:

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We had a licenced version of Autocad but just wanted to show the muppet that his claim of 'uncrackable' was pure wishful thinking and bulls*it.

So to help out our mate Sam I searched and eventually found the code. It's on a 5.5 " floppy disc so I had to hook up a drive to an old DOS box, the file is called dd.exe (dongle defeat) and it was assembled to run under MS Dos 3.3.

* Danny M *

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Danny,

Although we dragged to discussion towards AutoCAD .. Sam has not actually mentioned which software he is using, so dd.exe may not be relevant.

Personally, however, I am interested to see that you reference specifically the parallel/printer port.

… I must read more of John Walker's story [which I referenced yesterday]

MichaelG.

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

Re. Autocad, I sent SWMBO (version1) on a round-the-world trip back in the early 90s. In Hong Kong she picked up some locally available program CDs , with no knowledge of what they were. One turned out to be a 'de-dongled' Autocad, (legit version was circa £2k, I think). Foolishly thinking that I could make use of it, I bought my most expensive paperback – £55.00 – a user manual. Optimism over ability can only produce one outcome … my most expensive throwaway ever!!

rgds

Bill

[Brian GParticipant @briang]

To be honest dongles were a pain in the ar5e neck. At one time I had three different parallel port dongles in my desk drawer, and none could be used via a pass-through, which meant pulling the PC out to change programs. It wasn't as if cracked versions of software weren't available, I am pretty sure I was the only person on one course using a licenced version of AutoCAD.

They aren't quite dead yet though, as the software for my vinyl cutter requires a USB dongle.

Brian

[MeunierParticipant @meunier]

Our male dog wants one (or two) of these as he seems to have gained the impression that a 'dingle dongle' would be the dog's danglies ( since he has 'lost' his)
Sorry…
Happy Christmas everyone
DaveD

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