How I broke my activation

Here's a little lesson for anyone who happens to give presentations or needs to run ID in strange situations.
I'm down in Australia at the Mogo-Media Creative Suite Live event, when a glitch developed on my computer.
There was nothing I could do to get my machine to be recognized on the facility's projector.
This had happened to another speaker, so they knew what to do.
I booted my machine into the "Target" mode and attached it like a Firewire drive to another machine.
Then, I used my machine as the startup disk and launched InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
Imagine my shock to discover a message that said I had a "broken activation" and had five days to activate the software or it would storp working.
Thank goodness I had a good internet connection back at the hotel. (Unlike some of the other places I've been recently.)
But the bottom line is if you try to mount your machine and run it through another one, your activation will automatically be broken and need to be repaired within five days.

On a positive note, at least you had five days.
That's the first time I've seen anything other than activate now.
Good to know.
Bob

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