Interesting. It always has worked from here in the UK. But, OK, what’s wrong with your VPN these days? Problem solved.
================================================= My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <[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 11:18, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] >>> <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. 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