Well now that you mention it I'm sure Freedom Scientific were ttrying to
tell me something and thanks Guys as I finally have your message, some
people who have your new products - The El-Braile in this instance -
can't read what's shown on the thing it seems, so the next question is
of course who's to actually blame for this, is it on the users head or
not <smile>.
On 26/08/2017 10:23 PM, Gordon Smith wrote:
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]
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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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