"This thread is locked"

Similar to a family reunion for some happy posters.

Sweet.

Ann Shelbourne wrote on 10/16/2009 5:46 PM:

There was no need to take that action, and to inform the OP of the "Virtual Machine" thread that you had done so.

So I should not have informed anybody?

That was both extremely rude

Why?

and totally unnecessary because the Thread would have ended naturally — probably after the OP had thanked people for their help.

Help? Who provided help in that thread?

All I see is a bunch of nonsense without anybody willing to touch the

core issue that you can not distinguish a VM from a physical one from

inside the VM without help from ring 0, so that any licensing based on

IP addresses and distinguishing VMs is never going to work. Not to

mention that on a remote desktop environment (Citrix, Terminal Server

etc.) we are not even talking about different machines, but multiple

people are using the same machine and hence the same IP address. Or in a

NAT environment multiple systems can have the same IP address without

being VMs.

The licensing whatever from the OP is fundamentally wrong and the

answers provided in the thread make it painfully obvious that this is

neither the venue nor the audience to discuss that problem.

The way I see it I did the OP a service by cutting of any more clueless

answers, pointing in the direction of a more knowledgeable audience and

widening the scope to include options that stand a chance of actually

working.

This Forum has no need for this over-bearing form of "Moderation" — a Forum HOST, with a friendly demeanor and some real knowledge of technical issues (and without a meaningless "Community Expert" badge!) might be a different matter.

The only person with real technical knowledge relevant to the forums

operation I see participating in this forum is me (although there are

some others with an email subscription). Photoshop, Indesign, Premiere,

Illustrator etc. skills are as relevant to the technical issues of this

forum as Java programing, Unix administration, database management,

networking and internet protocols are to print or video publishing.

Ann Shelbourne wrote: Jochem: <snipped> This was yet another example of why so many of us feel that you are not suited to the job of "Moderator". This Forum has no need for this over-bearing form of "Moderation" — a Forum HOST, with a friendly demeanor and some real knowledge of technical issues (and without a meaningless "Community Expert" badge!) might be a different matter.

Good one!

Ann Shelbourne wrote: <snipped> What you have to learn is that you are seen by Adobe's Customers as part of "Customer Service" and acting as you did just helps to build resentment against Adobe at a time when they have every reason to be concerned about the appalling standard of their "Customer Service". <snipped>

It's like beating your head against a stone wall... they just don't seem to get it