So obviously the fsactivater cookies don’t like Australians, which is weird. 
Maybe Freedom is trying to tell us something! Snigger, Snigger, Snigger. ;-)


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> On 26 Aug 2017, at 13:18, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> 
>> 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 
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>>   Contact:
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>> • 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
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 26 Aug 2017, at 11:18, Dane Trethowan <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[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
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 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>.
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