Yet another venting about immediate trial version license expiration

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I know this might not be the place to do it, and that my fellow users here can't help or offer any comfort, but there's no other place to do it. Apologies to those who don't want to hear it. And I don't give a crap whether you had no problems. That doesn't help me at all.<br /><br />I'm gonna go underground to find my fix. Should I take a gun, or some aerosol spray to assuage the suspicions of the black hats?<br /><br />Tried installing the AI CS3 trial yesterday.<br /><br />No problems were encountered during the 35 minute download of the 1.235 GB disk image.<br /><br />I went above & beyond the call of duty in running maintenance routines before the install. System passes with flying colors. I even ran the CS3 cleaning script, just to be sure.<br /><br />I've never tried this demo before. I've never run any betas.<br /><br />The installation proceeded without problems, and returned a "Successfully Installed" message when the procedure was complete.<br /><br />Upon first attempt at launching the demo, I get an alert telling me "the licensing for this trial has expired. I didn't mess with my system clock or do anything else; I dedicated all resources and efforts solely to properly following all instructions about installing and running the trial.<br /><br />Hit up the Adobe knowledge base, and followed all procedures for removing, repairing and reinstalling, to the letter. I even searched out the issue online, to gather as much info about this problem as I could find.<br /><br />No Joy.<br /><br />Called Adobe Customer Support, and after enjoying the music loop for way too long, I'm told that once that "trial has expired" wall has been hit, there's nothing that can fix it, short of a reformat, or installing on a different hard drive. Of course, that's common knowledge. I wasn't able to draw any info from the 2nd-tier tech support guy about what might have caused the problem. Basically, he just told me I'm SOL & FKT.<br /><br />But I'll bet the bad boys know how.<br /><br />It's such a massive load of bu||$h¡t that a reasonably savvy guy like myself can't manage to get through this process and try out the demo.<br /><br />Fetch me my trenchcoat and rakish fedora...I'm going in.<br /><br /><Jerry>"...But I don't wanna be a pirate!!!"</Jerry>

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Hi, I would highly recommend the Presonus Firebox. I use a Yamaha 01x for my main system but wanted something for my PowerBook out of the studio. I tried many interfaces and decided on the FireBox for a couple of reasons. First it sounds great. It has nice sounding inputs and lots of headroom. It is Class Compliant with OS X which means there are no drivers to load and supported at the OS level. That's a great thing, it just shows up in the Audio MIDI Setup and works rock solid. Plus it's a quaility build and nice and compact. It's at the top of the price range for that class of interface but well worth the extra money. I really wanted something that just worked and sounded great.
Hope that helps,
Mike