Comments on: Someone Else’s Dongle? https://voiceover-talent.com/2010/02/01/someone-elses-dongle/ Voice-over talent and on-camera spokesperson specializing in corporate communications/presentations, commercial broadcast advertising, cable-network. Tue, 06 Feb 2018 06:48:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Robert W. Franson https://voiceover-talent.com/2010/02/01/someone-elses-dongle/#comment-26 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:26:02 +0000 http://isdnvoicetalent.wordpress.com/?p=198#comment-26 “Sealed” isn’t quite what it’s supposed to be. Some years ago I bought a factory-sealed (apparently) disk drive at Fry’s. When I hooked it up, I found the drive had software and course-work of some local college graduate student. The upside was that Photoshop was on the drive, which I hadn’t used before. I tried it, liked it, and bought the current version for myself.

The downside was that the drive failed sooner than most. I suspect that the drive had been returned for a replacement, the techs had superficially tested the drive and found no malfunction, so rewrapped it as new — just as one (at least) big local record store used to rewrap returned vinyl records as factory-sealed.

]]> By: iLok Unlocked and Source Connect Installed « Connie Terwilliger – ISDN Voice Talent https://voiceover-talent.com/2010/02/01/someone-elses-dongle/#comment-25 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:37:16 +0000 http://isdnvoicetalent.wordpress.com/?p=198#comment-25 […] reach the official “owner” (well, perhaps we should call that the unofficial owner) of the iLok I bought at Guitar Center last week. After waiting a couple of days I decided to just return that one and get […]

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