Develloping a registrationsystem

[miscdas at boxfrog.com]

Alejandro Tejada writes: 

> Malte Brill wrote: 
> 
>>I´ve been working on a small registration concept
>>recently. I´ve got a stack that generarates a 
>>registration code of 8 characters taken
>>from name and a codeword e.g. email adress.
> 
> Hi Malte, 
> 
> I'm interested too in some code that permits a stack
> to runs only in the machine in which it was installed. 
> 
> Those machine are running Windows XP.
> I've read about getting the hard disk serial number
> in the Developers Tips from Ken Ray's website. 
> 
> My guess is that a combination of the serial of
> the hard disk and the ID number of the Ethernet card
> could be a good combination. But, I don't know how to
> get the id of the ethernet card.

> Thanks in advance. 
> 
> Alejandro
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Mr Tejada, 

I suggest your reconsider the Ethernet card ID as a "permanent" part of a 
system. In more than one company in which I've worked, it was very common to 
swap-out Ethernet cards for a variety of reasons. 

miscdas