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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Terje Mathisen Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: older copy protection... Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 09:08:48 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <100eldv$1gdmo$1@dont-email.me> References: <1000ik8$233o6$1@dont-email.me> <10037hd$2o7l0$1@dont-email.me> <10039g6$2ohk0$1@dont-email.me> <100c5ap$tdbq$1@dont-email.me> <100e3sc$1cgi$1@gal.iecc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 09:08:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bb78ddce11123b8d30215b437e26bb8e"; logging-data="1586904"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Hb4isb/DWIkKSy2gEC1nOispyycLMNcpSz7byQ1UwRw==" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 Cancel-Lock: sha1:a852v+QtpzvejcLVx23bTtWsFRY= In-Reply-To: <100e3sc$1cgi$1@gal.iecc.com> Bytes: 1856 John Levine wrote: > According to Chris M. Thomasson : >>> "It was impossible to create a disk image without this hardware" >>> >>> The disk has been cloned on the Applesauce. >> >> Thanks! I need to ponder on this. Thanks again. > > The usual approach was to patch the program to disable the code > that checked the copy protection. The usual "protection" against this was to distribute the checking code across both time and space, only loading/decrypting the next part after verification. Terje -- - "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"