In reading the material on the link that Mike sent, it's sort of a mixed bag as far as usefulness. To make it fairly portible, you would need your authorization on the dongle. In order to use it from computer to computer, each computer would need to have two USB ports available. I don't know if you could use a mini two port hub for this to cut down on machine ports or not. You can only use this version on Windows 2000 or XP machines and you would first have to download two files, the video intercept manager and the dongle manager from files that you could carry on your thumb drive. It sounds as if the synthesizer would have to be loaded on the computer instead of the thumb drive too. Although, that may only apply to synthesizers in addition to Eloquence. So it's not as good or as bad as first and second thought. Clifford >>> yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/7/2005 10:04:01 AM >>> I'm having trouble imagining the practical scenarios for this thumb drive. I hopefully thought it meant what an earlier poster was hoping, that you could travel without your own computer and temporarily install Jaws on other peoples' machines (I imagined something like a limit in terms of days or hours of usage, not the demo mode). But if the other machine has to have an authorization on it, wouldn't that imply that it also had *Jaws* on it already? In which case, of what value would the thumb drive deal be? No, I haven't yet been to the site to see the explanation there, but I'm skeptical that a question as basic as mine is addressed. I presume that others know exactly what the meaning of all this is, but I can't figure out what's being described. And I don't understand what dongles are for, either. I thought they were for a similar purpose. To temporarily install jaws on a computer not your own. If this is really clearly explained online, someone just please tell me and I'll be glad to go there later. Thanks. , I'd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 7:37 AM Subject: Re: JFW on a thumb drive According to the thumb drive FAQ, you need at least 128 MB free on the thumb drive. If the computer onto which you are putting JAWS is not already authorized to run JAWS, the 40-minute demo will run. Bruce -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: dogriver@xxxxxxxx Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Clifford Blackwell wrote: > Hello list, > > I don't really know about this capacity in Jaws7.0. What size thumb > drive would one need to use this ability? I presume you install Jaws > and authorize it on a thumb drive that you can take from computer to > computer? Can you use a synthesizer other than Eloquence such as > Dectalk Access 32? > > I'm interested in this option for use at home. > > Thanks for any information you can give me. If there is a detailed > description in the documentation, point me at it and I'll read myself. > > Clifford > -- > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or > the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather > contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. 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