So, this may not be the least incriminating blog post ever, but I have to start by admitting that, about a year ago, I downloaded some software (for educational purposes I promise). And in order to do so I had to manually change a certain host file so that a certain program would loop back to itself when it went to the internet to check to see if it had been verified.
Needless to say this small change was just that, small, and I went to almost forget about it. A year later, and now that same software is available to me through my university at no cost at all. Unfortunately, I had had the longest and hardest problem of trying to figure out why I couldn't install it properly. I was sure that I was using the correct activation code, but the program kept spitting it out. I sent a couple emails, asked some friends, and even went to IT, but to no avail. Until....
Driving home today I had a flash of intuition, that of the file I had changed when installing the program the first time. Could this be the source of all of my frustration? I went to the depths of google, found out how to find the file I changed all those months ago, went to it and what comment do my eyes behold? "# verification blocker code " Ahhaaa, I said to myself. Commenting out the lines of following code I saved the file and raced to the activation screen for my software, inputted my code and finally.. viola! It accepted!
Now the software is installing and boy does it feel so good.
