Without the dongle or activation, the program can be used as a viewer and plot station for any DWG drawings, but it can't save drawings after the 14 day evaluation has expired.

The term " dongle " was originally used to refer only to software-protection dongles ; however, currently " dongle " is often used to refer to any small piece of hardware that plugs into a computer.

These are used by some proprietary vendors as a form of copy protection or digital rights management, because it is generally harder to replicate a dongle than to copy the software it authenticates.

To thwart this, some dongle vendors adopted smart card product, which is widely used in extremely rigid security requirement environments such as military and banking, in their dongle products.

With two-factor authentication, something the user ' has ' is also used ( e. g. a security token or ' dongle ', an ATM card, or a mobile phone ); and with three-factor authentication, something the user ' is ' is also used ( e. g. a fingerprint or retinal scan ).

Paperclip was supplied with a dongle, a hardware key used for copy protection that plugged into the DB-9 joystick port.

The software used to be protected by a USB dongle that will operate on either Mac or Windows.

As of July 26, 2010 it is legal in the United States to use programs protected by this method without a dongle, if the dongle is no longer working and a replacement not available.

For example, a simple implementation might define a function to check for the dongle's presence, returning " true " or " false " accordingly, but the dongle requirement can be easily circumvented by modifying the software to always answer " true ".

Hardware cloning, where the dongle is emulated by a device driver, is also a threat to traditional dongles.

Clarion 1. 0 required the use of a dongle, at a time when industry sentiment was turning against dongles, which was offset by the ability to create royalty-free applications.

A related application is the hardware dongle required by some computer programs to prove ownership of the software.

" Copy protection " is a misnomer for some systems, because any number of copies can be made from an original and all of these copies will work, but only in one computer, or only with one dongle, or only with another device that cannot be easily copied.

For the production of even more restrictive software, a dongle product that supports code porting mechanism is one choice available to software developers.

* Older versions of Autodesk 3ds Max use a dongle for copy protection ; if it is missing, the program will randomly corrupt the points of the user's model during usage, destroying their work.

This form of software protection is effectively using the book as a dongle ; however, unlike other games which use the code book protection approach, the game itself was free.

The RSA SecurID authentication mechanism consists of a " token " — either hardware ( e. g. a USB dongle ) or software ( a soft token ) — which is assigned to a computer user and which generates an authentication code at fixed intervals ( usually 60 seconds ) using a built-in clock and the card's factory-encoded random key ( known as the " seed ".

Without the dongle, Reason 6 will not open saved files, nor will it dump audio to a sound file, but is otherwise fully functional.

A software protection dongle is a small piece of hardware that plugs into an electrical connector on a computer and serves as an electronic " key " for a piece of software ; the program will run only when the dongle is plugged in.

Vendors of software-protection dongles ( and dongle-controlled software ) often use terms such as " hardware key ", " hardware token ", or " security device " instead of " dongle ", but the term " dongle " is much more common in day-to-day use.

In cases such as prepress and printing software, the dongle is encoded with a specific, per-user license key, which enables particular features in the target application.

A simpler and even less secure option is to use unpartitioned or unallocated storage in the dongle to store license data.

In cracked versions of a program, the code to check for a dongle is often deleted or circumvented.

Part of the firmware was held on an external 16 kB ROM cartridge ( also known as the " kludge " or " dongle "), until the QL was redesigned to accommodate the necessary 48 kB of ROM internally, instead of the 32 kB initially specified.

* The Amiga version of Bomberman featured a multitap peripheral that also acted as a dongle.

Reason 6 also requires a USB software protection dongle called the " Ignition Key " to prevent unauthorized use of the software.

A developer can also use the dongle to store user settings or even a complete " portable " version of the application.

Typical dongles also now contain non-volatile memory — key parts of the software may actually be stored and executed on the dongle.

* OSMO — A temporary dongle that attaches to the serial port on the Roomba to update a pre-2. 1 Roomba's firmware to version 2. 1 ; this also can correct the " circle dance " problem ( for all second-generation Roombas ).

It is also dubious whether the dongle produced higher quality sound, since the music did not feature any more channels than regular sound-chip music.

An early example of the term was in 1984, when early production Sinclair QLs were shipped with part of the QL firmware held on an external 16 KB ROM cartridge ( infamously known as the " kludge " or " dongle "), until the QL was redesigned to increase the internal ROM capacity from 32 to 48 KB.

The Syncrosoft protection process allows software developers to insert, what are known as ' Dongle Calls ' in the software to enable the program to check the dongle and the relevant license is in place before the user can use various functions.

In Cubase SX1. 0 the employment of dongle calls was limited to the movement of MIDI notes in the Key Editor.

Similar cracks are available for software that requires a hardware dongle.

Due to their thinness, most Type II interface cards feature miniature interface connectors on the card connect to a dongle, a short cable that adapts from the card's miniature connector to an external full-size connector.

Caddie requires a USB dongle.

* A dongle, a piece of hardware containing an electronic serial number that must be plugged into the computer to run the software.

Rainbow ( SafeNet ), HASP ( Aladdin Knowledge Systems ), iLok ( Copy Protection ) and Matrix Software License Protection System UniKey are popular dongle protection schemes utilizing a USB dongle.

The X1 Carbon requires the use of a dongle to access wired ethernet and some models include 3G cellular modems.

Electrically, dongles mostly appear as two-interface security tokens with transient data flow that does not interfere with other dongle functions and a pull communication that reads security data from the dongle.

Some look deliberately to devices used by creators in the other arts and apply corresponding methods to their own work.

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One cannot help wondering whether Molotov and the rest of the `` anti-party group '' are not being used as China's whipping-boys by Khrushchev and his faithful followers.

Proceeds realized from these pageants are used by the Jaycees to help support their various youth, health, welfare and community betterment activities throughout the state.

Visual and operable training aids developed by the Medical Illustration Service, were used in support of Army Medical Service mass casualty exercises.

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For the year 2000 this means servicing ( A ) the protection requirements of a watershed producing at least 200 million acre-feet of water each year, ( B ) recreation and wildlife resources used each year by 635 million visitors, ( C ) a timber resource supporting an annual cut of 21 billion board feet, and ( D ) 60 million acres of rangelands.

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The aircraft could be used to destroy other mobile, fleeting, and imprecisely located targets as well as the known, fixed and hardened targets which can also be destroyed by missile.

Or put another way, the hardest missile site planned today could be destroyed by placing a one-kiloton warhead ( 1/20th the size of those used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ) within 100 to 200 feet of the target!!

In 1959, according to the Engineers, Lake Texoma was only one of thirty-two artificial lakes and reservoirs which were used for recreation by over 1,000,000 persons.

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Mold was used as pattern and clay cut by holding knife at about 45-degree angle, to form an undercut, making base smaller than the pattern top.

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