Open Source, Open Minds
I think it is about time for me to begin learning/relearning Cubase SX3 or some other DAW to use for audio production. I have been in and out of doing it for a while. I blame ADHD 
I would love to make some sweet goa trance.
If you know anyone who is willing to teach someone the ropes of Cubase SX3 or something close, let me know.
Where to start!?
My girlfriend, Kayla, has Adobe CS3 and uses it for her pictures and graphic design. As of recent she has run across the same error a bunch of others have run into:
“Licensing for this product has stopped working.”
After many hours of support calls and research, here is my post on what I did that didnt’ work and what I did that did work.
My first call to Adobe the tech told me to go here and do the steps that it said. So I did. I followed all the steps of the License recovery, but that didn’t do squat! So I tried to doing the steps it talked about in regards to the FLEXnet service. (Renaming the folder, copying the files to another directory, etc) That didn’t work either.
By now I am utterly frustrated with Adobe and cursing up a storm. Finally after calling for 3 days straight because nothing was working, I found the CS3 Clean Script. I was hesitant to use this because of what it said on the site:
“The script will clean up any beta and pre-release installations. It will also look for and repair registry permissions and remove obsolete registry entries of older Flash Player versions, to ensure successful installation of the shipping versions of Creative Suite 3″
Before I used the CS3 Clean Script, I tried to uninstall all Adobe products off her computer, and nothing happened. It would only install the ‘Shared Components’ and none of the actual programs. By now I was thinking that I shouldn’t have uninstalled and it would’ve just been a licensing error. Well needless to say, I dont think it would’ve made much of a difference either way. After finally getting a hold of someone on the 5th try of calling, I got a tech that I was able to understand and who was willing to help me with all this.
He instructed that I run the CS3 Clean Script. So I try running the Level 1 and does nothing. I try running the Level 2 and that doesn’t fix the problem. The tech then instructs me to hit 3 when it asks for which level you want to run, so I do. Something I thought was odd that it doesn’t display Level 3 on the script. So I run that and the tech then instructs me to run Level 4 next.
I’m thinkin’, “Dude there wasn’t a 3 where is the 4!”
I hit 4 and run that. He then tells me to try the installer and……..
HUZZAH!!!! It worked. I was able to install all programs fully and re-enter the serial number. Her problems are now fixed. Although I still wonder why they dont list Level 3 and Level 4 on the CS3 Clean Script. I guess I’ll just have to snoop into the script
Hope this solves your problems as it did mine! Now time for a tasty beverage!
of ambient beats and grooves. That is Groove Salad.
I have been an active listener of SomaFM for almost a decade now, and I finally decided it was my turn to donate to their cause.
I want to say thank you Rusty for DJing an awesome station , and for sending me a kickass shirt and stickers.
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Today I was thinking to myself what a good topic for a post would be, and it hit me just now! Why not do a topic on the GNU General Public License!
(GNU GPL for short)
I wont go into much detail here but here is the purpose of the GNU GPL:
Here is a term that you probably haven’t heard, but is associated with the use of Free Software: ‘Copyleft‘. What that means is when you copyright your software, instead of those rights being used to restrict the user, like proprietarysoftware, it gives the user the freedom to make changes as they see fit and distribute it amongst their peers.
If you care to read the license in full detail:
Ever wonder how to encrypt your files? GPG is your answer! GPG stands for GNU Privacy Guard. With this tool you are able to encrypt data and create digital signatures. Let’s jump right in, shall we?
For single file encryption use the following argument: -c
Example:
$ gpg -c mypasswords.txt
Enter passphrase: (enter desired password)
Repeat passphrase: (re-enter desired password)
This will not delete your mypasswords.txt. It will make a seperate file mypasswords.txt.gpg Once your file is encrypted, it would be best practice to delete the unencrypted file.
-c tells gpg to encrypt the file into a symmetrical cipher.
Note: There is no way to recover your password, so DO NOT forget your password.
Now lets say you want to decrypt the file.
$ gpg mypasswords.txt.gpg
gpg: CAST5 encrypted data
Enter passphrase: (password you created for file)