Extra Thimian

When you enter your serial number, you will be redirected to a website in order to fully register and activate your product. This website will require a new Autodesk login id – different from your student community login id.

Apparently, it isn’t enough to remember Yet Another Set Of Login Credentials(tm) for any given website I want to use semi-regularly (Sorry, NY Times, but your login wall works quite well in keeping me from perusing your news section), but AutoDesk requires bloody two of them. Which is rather obvious nonsense. Even my college manages to provide a SSO behind the scenes. Too bad my college uses AutoCAD, too, so I’m pretty much stuck with it. Awesome.

BTW, AutoDesk: Acronyms are capitalized. It is “ID”. Otherwise, I’ll call it Autodesk cad, m’kay?

And a 13 month limit on an install is rather ridiculous, considering that college takes at least 3 years, and that I could, you know, use a torrent instead. Great job in punishing me for being honest. Gotta love market leaders. Always the same crap.

Also, an explanation for the long silence: I was busy applying for college to get a mechanical engineering degree. That took up a lot of time, and cost me a lot of nerves, so I couldn’t sit down to properly write something.

Filed under: English Language Posts, SSO, Single sign-on, Things you shouldn't do, What were they thinking? by Phill