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[ale] OT: rant
- Subject: [ale] OT: rant
- From: james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 09:39:22 -0400
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matlab license required eth0. What a pain. Had to create a virtual device
> with a fixed MAC so Matlab would install even though it just used standard
> system network to contact Mathworks to register and get authorization key.
> Matlab 2016a fixed that (and broke a bunch of other stuff).
Indeed. The license hashes both the MAC _and_ the device name into the key.
Makes for fun times when moving the server to a new system.
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