Nothing wrong with my VPN whatever as this case proves as that's exactly
what I did.
On 26/08/2017 10:09 PM, Gordon Smith wrote:
Interesting. It always has worked from here in the UK. But, OK, what’s
wrong with your VPN these days? Problem solved.
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On 26 Aug 2017, at 11:18, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]
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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.
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On 26 Aug 2017, at 04:18, Iaen Cordell <[email protected]
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Thanks Sire, good tip.
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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>.
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