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Apologies accepted...but

The burden of proof is still on the customer. I like to swap hard drives and reinstall my software ten times a day. Am I forbidden to do that? Let alone the many crashes and upgrades a creative and experimental PC user may experience.

Deactivation and unlocking software has to be immediate and in my own hands and not something to be begged for...

So get rid of this system and use your brains to invent something morally sane, because I may soon be angry again...

Are you the "......as my anger grows" person? That was an awesome post.

i feel your pain...

personally, i like to keep my system as stable and workable without touching it too much, but i know some computer geeks, that happen to like music technology as well. these guys usually don't end up making a lot of finished tracks, but i do know that they come up with brilliant devices, complex routings, uncanny sounds,... that they happily share. but, they also experiment alot, especially with their soundcard (fwiw, i'm talking about the fantastic creamware (rip) scope cards and software) and all software they can get their hands on.

we need those people and yes, they regularly do crazy stuff to their computers that would need them to install their software again.

i'm what you could call a computer illiterate, but what is all this paranoia? i remember reading somewhere, that in the not so far future, you can't 'use' digital media, like DVD, on other computers if inserted once...

who apologized - you or ableton?

Why don't you contact them in advance if you are going to reinstall your system. That's what I do, then I don't have to wait ...

OR SCREAM CURSES AT THE SKY!!! BY ODINS EYE, WHY MUST I WAIT FOR MY AUTORIZATION KEY AND POST RANTING STATEMENTS TO STRANGERS ON A FORUM, WHY GREAT ODIN, WHYYYYYYYY!?!!?

Hyperion wrote: I like to swap hard drives and reinstall my software ten times a day. Am I forbidden to do that?

Well, no..but why the hell would you want to?

How have you got time left for making any music if you spend all your time reconfiguring your computer?

timothyallan wrote:Why don't you contact them in advance if you are going to reinstall your system. That's what I do, then I don't have to wait ...

OR SCREAM CURSES AT THE SKY!!! BY ODINS EYE, WHY MUST I WAIT FOR MY AUTORIZATION KEY AND POST RANTING STATEMENTS TO STRANGERS ON A FORUM, WHY GREAT ODIN, WHYYYYYYYY!?!!?

ROFL @ that

That works? Huh... must try that. Contacting in advance, that is, not hassling deities

evernaut wrote:

Hyperion wrote: I like to swap hard drives and reinstall my software ten times a day. Am I forbidden to do that?

Well, no..but why the hell would you want to?

How have you got time left for making any music if you spend all your time reconfiguring your computer?

Hyperion - these are women.

they're soft and fun to play with, try talking to one sometime, even though it means you'll have to leave mom's basement I think you'll find that your life will be better for it.


what a drama queen.

^Nice Pic...
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On your issue: there is an issue: that's what I mean.

I you can figure me out, I say Firebox mixer, faster than you can blink Presonus.

Thats what I mean.

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You know, with a bit of research, and careful planning, you can all but eliminate re-activations, legally and ethically and without breaking a sweat.

On Windows:
Acronis True Image
Norton Ghost

On Mac:
SuperDuper!

Swapping hard drives is trivial with these.
"Reinstalling" to an earlier state is trivial with these.

In a few instances, you'll still have to reactivate this or that or everything... new CPU, new motherboard, etc. But, surely changing those things happens less often than most everything else (or you have FAR more money than I, and more time).

Learn to live by backups and restores, rather than reinstalls.

- zevo

*cough fdisk coug*
mm, buggy new beta linux releases.
yeah, that gets me going.

bye live.

what?

inmazevo wrote:You know, with a bit of research, and careful planning, you can all but eliminate re-activations, legally and ethically and without breaking a sweat.

On Windows:
Acronis True Image
Norton Ghost

On Mac:
SuperDuper!

Swapping hard drives is trivial with these.
"Reinstalling" to an earlier state is trivial with these.

In a few instances, you'll still have to reactivate this or that or everything... new CPU, new motherboard, etc. But, surely changing those things happens less often than most everything else (or you have FAR more money than I, and more time).

Learn to live by backups and restores, rather than reinstalls.

- zevo

not if you happen to mess with your partition table.
or even better, wipe your drive clean.

i once was going to install a linux distribution, and the installer defaulted to wipe my drive clean without my authorization.
granted i knew the riscs with installing beta releases, but still.