Getting back to JAWS and to correct you, no the Authorisation reset
doesn't work from anywhere, I tried it first without VPN and I got a
message back from the web site telling me that this facility was only
available to residents of the US, if it had worked then I wouldn't have
bothered trying to talk to Freedom Scientific Tech Support <smile>.
On 26/08/2017 8:11 PM, Gordon Smith wrote:
This works from anywhere! I’ve used that a few times, when I’ve
changed jobs, to deactivate both JAWS and OpenBook on my former work
machines.
I’m going to tell you a little story about when I left work. There is
a technical reason for my doing so, as you’ll see by reading on.
Actually, there was a big argument about this the last time I
deactivated everything on the machine. All of the software, including
Windows itself, belonged to me personally. The original deal was that
if I provided all the software for their clients’ use whilst I worked
there, the Mac which Access To Work provided for my use would leave
with me.
However, when the time came, my former boss mysteriously changed her
mind, claiming she needed all the stuff that Access To Work bought for
me. So, just before I left, I destroyed the Boot Camp partition I’d
set up for Windows.
When I told her what I’d done, she went into a towering temper. She
tried to claim that it had all belonged to her, despite the fact that
I’d bought it all in the first place. Anyway, she even went so far as
to have my former support worker’s boyfriend try to recover the
partition. The tale of the support worker is a joke in itself, because
it turned out that she was in the manager’s close circle of friends,
and in her pocket. But that’s by the by. As I said, they tried to
recover the partition, failing miserably, I would add.
I erased not only the Windows partition, but also the MacOS one using
Target Disk mode from another machine. And it’s this mode which I have
been leading up too by relating this sad sorry tael.
For those who don’t know, Target Disk Mode is a special boot mode
which allows you to manipulate the hardware of one Mac from the Finder
on another Mac. The two have to be connected using Thunderbolt
connectivity, (on modern machines), or Firewire on older ones.
So, what I did was to set the work machine as the “Target” using my
own MacBook Air as the “Master”. I then erased absolutely everything,
using secureWipe, so that it could’t be recovered even by professional
data recovery experts.
I then re-created the primary partition on the Target machine, and
reinstalled the then current version of MacOS, (El Capitan). I handed
back the machine in the exact state it was in when I unpacked it from
its box. In other words, they would have to configure the machine
again from absolute scratch.
When I last spoke to a friend of mine who attends the centre where I
used to work as a trainer/support specialist, he informed me that the
Mac was sitting there redundant, as nobody knew how to set up the base
operating system, let alone Boot Camp and Windows. The manager of the
centre had to pay out for another machine, distributed by one of the
so-called accessibility companies. She bought a full-blown desktop
with Supernova installed. It must have cost her well over £2000.00.
Poetic justice, you might say. But I was damned if I was going to let
her get away with all my licensed software!
Anyway, I wish that there was some way to do the same thing with a PC.
I have a machine whose password we seem to have lost. Therefore, the
only solution I can come up with is to reinstall Windows. Hence, if
anybody does know how to install Windows 10 without visual assistance
from the ground up on a bog-standard HP Pavilion Series 6 machine, I’d
love to know about it.
=================================================
My compliments and kindest regards
Gordon Smith:
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist..
This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can
avoid printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree!
Contact:
• UK Free Phone: 0800 8620538
• UK Mobile/SMS: +44 (0) 7907 823971
• Vic. Australia: +61 38 82059300
• US/Canada: +1 646 9151493
• UK Geographic / Global: +44(0) 1642 688095
----------------------------------------
——
On 26 Aug 2017, at 04:18, Iaen Cordell <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks Sire, good tip.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dane Trethowan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, 26 August 2017 12:58 PM
To: Techno-Chat ... Technology Enthusiasm!
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [Techno-Chat]: Reseting Authorisation: a tip for JAWS users
Hi!
Those of us who use our JAWS license on multiple computers may have
encountered a situation where our authorisation needs to be reset.
If you live in the US then the reset of your Authorisation - computer
count for your license - is extremely easy, just jump onto the
Activation web page, choose reset your authorisation, type in the
information and press the reset button however those outside the US
face another layer to work with, that being the contacting of your
local dealer to initiate a Authorisation Reset.
So why haven’t people outside the US got the access to the automated
Authorisation Reset that US customers have? We did - after all - buy
JAWS just the same.
Well actually those outside the US can access the automated
Authorisation Reset using a VPN, I found this out for myself a few
days ago when I needed to reset my JAWS authorisation and I decided
to give the VPN trick a go having held on to speak to someone at
Freedom Scientific’s Technical Support line for just under half an
hour, I have no objection to waiting mind you but I thought that - if
I could use the Automated system - then I could save a whole heap of
time.
Anyway that’s how its done, for the moment at least <smile>.
------------------------------
This post, like all posts to the Techno Chat E-Mail group has been
scanned by our server-side antivirus/malware solution. This should
not, however, be viewed as a substitution for your own security
strategy. We assume no culpability whatever, implicit or otherwise,
for any compromise to your systems as a result of opening any post to
this group. Suffice it to say that we remain vigilant within the
boundaries of reason. We strongly urge you to do likewise! You have
been warned!!!
You can find an RSS listing of all posts to this group at:
<https://mail.mac-access.net:7025/list/[email protected]>
or at:
<https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=all&[email protected]>
To encourage your friends to join this group, first accept our thanks
for spreading the word. Then, have them send a message to the list
processing engine at:
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
To toggle on/off Digest (batch) mode for this group, please send a
blank message to:
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
To leave the group, please send a blank message to:
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>.
To contact the support address for this group, please write to:
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
------------------------------
------------------------------
This post, like all posts to the Techno Chat E-Mail group has been
scanned by our server-side antivirus/malware solution. This should
not, however, be viewed as a substitution for your own security
strategy. We assume no culpability whatever, implicit or otherwise,
for any compromise to your systems as a result of opening any post to
this group. Suffice it to say that we remain vigilant within the
boundaries of reason. We strongly urge you to do likewise! You have
been warned!!!
You can find an RSS listing of all posts to this group at:
<https://mail.mac-access.net:7025/list/[email protected]>
or at:
<https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=all&[email protected]>
To encourage your friends to join this group, first accept our thanks
for spreading the word. Then, have them send a message to the list
processing engine at:
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
To toggle on/off Digest (batch) mode for this group, please send a
blank message to:
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
To leave the group, please send a blank message to:
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>.
To contact the support address for this group, please write to:
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
------------------------------
--
**********
"Live each day as if you were goiing to die tomorrow, learn each day as if you were
going to live forever"
