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