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    Rama Krishna Vavilala
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    68 characters for installing MicroStrategy 7i:

    abcw123w29Ahww5ww9www2h229wwBx8wwwCww6wwwwwwwwsamnxwwABcww12w2cabcd

    I have modified a few characters for obvious reasons. So this will not function in an installation The worst part was that it was all printed on a paper and I finally got it right the third time. Anything that beats it?


    Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

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      68 characters for installing MicroStrategy 7i:

      abcw123w29Ahww5ww9www2h229wwBx8wwwCww6wwwwwwwwsamnxwwABcww12w2cabcd

      I have modified a few characters for obvious reasons. So this will not function in an installation The worst part was that it was all printed on a paper and I finally got it right the third time. Anything that beats it?


      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

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      _Zorro_
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      Yes, the DAP activation key, don't have one now but it's at least four times this one. In fact the textfield used to enter it is multiline and shows aprox 10 lines. At least in the past versions.

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      • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

        68 characters for installing MicroStrategy 7i:

        abcw123w29Ahww5ww9www2h229wwBx8wwwCww6wwwwwwwwsamnxwwABcww12w2cabcd

        I have modified a few characters for obvious reasons. So this will not function in an installation The worst part was that it was all printed on a paper and I finally got it right the third time. Anything that beats it?


        Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

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        Amar Chaudhary
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        yeah i saw a 1024 char long key for a share broking software thank god i don't need to feed it manually :):)

        It is Good to be Important but! it is more Important to be Good [My Question]

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        • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

          68 characters for installing MicroStrategy 7i:

          abcw123w29Ahww5ww9www2h229wwBx8wwwCww6wwwwwwwwsamnxwwABcww12w2cabcd

          I have modified a few characters for obvious reasons. So this will not function in an installation The worst part was that it was all printed on a paper and I finally got it right the third time. Anything that beats it?


          Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

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          peterchen
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          We use ca. 4K licence files :cool:


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          • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

            68 characters for installing MicroStrategy 7i:

            abcw123w29Ahww5ww9www2h229wwBx8wwwCww6wwwwwwwwsamnxwwABcww12w2cabcd

            I have modified a few characters for obvious reasons. So this will not function in an installation The worst part was that it was all printed on a paper and I finally got it right the third time. Anything that beats it?


            Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

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            Matt Gerrans
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            Hmm... I wonder if there is some sort of mathematical pricipal to be derived? "The value of the software product is inversely proportional to the size of the product key" You know, overcompensation and all that. Or is it just that they assign the product key part of the project to the dumbest programmer in the whole company? You know, if the odds are any less than one in 1,230,957,890,097,797,906,348,240,246,472,990,974,368,085,537,415,255,272,388,190,278,139,474,686,302,299,484,447,054,599,436,601,050,074,879,758,467,657,105,408, then someone might guess the product key. Or they might write a little program that could run through and try all the possibilties. :wtf: -- modified at 15:00 Monday 13th November, 2006

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            • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

              68 characters for installing MicroStrategy 7i:

              abcw123w29Ahww5ww9www2h229wwBx8wwwCww6wwwwwwwwsamnxwwABcww12w2cabcd

              I have modified a few characters for obvious reasons. So this will not function in an installation The worst part was that it was all printed on a paper and I finally got it right the third time. Anything that beats it?


              Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

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              Ed Poore
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              Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

              Anything that beats it?

              Easily, the activation keys for the IAR M16C Compiler, was buggered when I had to type those in because at the time I didn't have a floppy for my laptop and the computer we were transferring it from had no (reliable) floppy or network card. I can't remember but it was close to 400 characters long.  Ok, they were meant to be transferred by floppy / network but in this instance we couldn't :mad:.  Worst thing was it was a base64 string so case sensitive and included numbers which looked like letters.

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                yeah i saw a 1024 char long key for a share broking software thank god i don't need to feed it manually :):)

                It is Good to be Important but! it is more Important to be Good [My Question]

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                Richard Andrew x64
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                Amar Chaudhary wrote:

                share broking

                Ahem..the word is brokerage, not broking. :-O

                -------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke

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                • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                  68 characters for installing MicroStrategy 7i:

                  abcw123w29Ahww5ww9www2h229wwBx8wwwCww6wwwwwwwwsamnxwwABcww12w2cabcd

                  I have modified a few characters for obvious reasons. So this will not function in an installation The worst part was that it was all printed on a paper and I finally got it right the third time. Anything that beats it?


                  Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

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                  Dan Neely
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                  Ugh. People who mistake keylength for added security. A validator for a 100 char key is just as easily hacked around as a 10 char one.

                  -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

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                  • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

                    Amar Chaudhary wrote:

                    share broking

                    Ahem..the word is brokerage, not broking. :-O

                    -------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke

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                    Amar Chaudhary
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                    it true but we use nick names actually it was a back Office accounting software specially designed for share brokers and sub brokers i am also thinking of making a similar but better for them in coming near future (it was very poorly designed and bugsy) and brokers here don't have alternatives :confused:

                    It is Good to be Important but! it is more Important to be Good [My Question]

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                      Hmm... I wonder if there is some sort of mathematical pricipal to be derived? "The value of the software product is inversely proportional to the size of the product key" You know, overcompensation and all that. Or is it just that they assign the product key part of the project to the dumbest programmer in the whole company? You know, if the odds are any less than one in 1,230,957,890,097,797,906,348,240,246,472,990,974,368,085,537,415,255,272,388,190,278,139,474,686,302,299,484,447,054,599,436,601,050,074,879,758,467,657,105,408, then someone might guess the product key. Or they might write a little program that could run through and try all the possibilties. :wtf: -- modified at 15:00 Monday 13th November, 2006

                      Matt Gerrans

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                      Brian Bartlett
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                      I like it! We'll call it Gerrans' Law in your honor as it's a truism here. My most valuable software doesn't have a license/software product key at all and I've accumulated quite a bit over the years. All my Mike Lin and SysInternal's utilities are the mere tip of the iceberg.

                      -Bri "The most deadly words for an engineer. 'I have an idea.'"

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