Re: JFW on a thumb drive
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:46:12 -0700
I guess I'll have to just go to the Freedom site and learn what dongles are
and so forth. I give up. I mean, all I've ever had was a single computer
on which I used one copy of Jaws, and in order to be installed there had to
be an authorization applied to that computer. At first the authorizations
were codes put onto floppies, and more recently, they're online. That's all
I know. I don't even remember what ILM stands for. So to get into dongles,
which still sounds hilarious to me as I try to imagine a dangling thing you
carry on a keychain to plug into a USB sb port, I'd better bone up on this
stuff, because I'm not getting it by osmosis from this thread. Maybe I'll
just get rich, buy a laptop onto which to install jaws, using up one of my
authorizations, is how I guess that works, and not have to think about this
stuff? dongle. You gotta love it. If the device is upgraded, is the new
version called McDongle? Or if the Dongle clan is Scottish, MacDongle?
Sorry. Just fooling around. Will quit thread now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clifford Blackwell" <cblackwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: JFW on a thumb drive
In doing a little reading on the FS web site, it appears that versions
of Jaws after 6.0 contain drivers for both dongle and ILM authroization.
I guess when Jaws starts up, it looks first for a dongle and if it
finds none, then looks for the other form of authorization.
As you have alluded to and Bruce has made more explicit, the problem
for most users is the need to have administrator privileges to load the
video intercept manager and the dongle manager.
One interesting point that I did run accross is that there are both USB
and parallel port dongles. So if you have the parallel dongle you don't
use up but one USB port with the thumb drive. However, you may well
have an old printer or some other device sitting on your parallel port.
It's a trade off.
Clifford
>>> yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/7/2005 10:46:13 AM >>>
Aren't all current versions of the jaws programs authorized by this ILM
method instead of by the old "keys," however exactly it was that those
worked?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clifford Blackwell" <cblackwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: JFW on a thumb drive
That what I understand. If you already have a version with ILM, I'm
not
sure if you can then also get a dongle or not though. It would be
worth
checking into though.
>>> yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/7/2005 10:35:18 AM >>>
So, if you have a dongle (whatever that is) as well as the thumb drive
deal,
you can provide a temporary authorization to someone else's PC and use
it as
long as you like, until you unplug those devices from the two USB
ports
into
which you had to insert them? Am I getting the idea? Can you call FS
and
order a dongle, and then download the thumb drive stuff, and then
you're
good to go?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: JFW on a thumb drive
The world dongle has nothing to do with JAWS, so I won't go there. But
if
you use a dongle, you do not use up your FS activations. The dongle is
an
authorization scheme used in place of, not in addition to, ILM.
Bruce
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Yardbird wrote:
> ah. Okay. This means next to nothing for someone like me. It
means
that
> if I want to travel and not be computerless, I have to buy a laptop
to
> supplement my desktop. For instance, if I go to visit a friend in
San
> Francisco, also a computer user but not a blind, Jaws-using one,
then
all
> that a thumb drive deal would avail me would be to let me check Web
based
> email as quickly as I could, or something like that. Not sit down
and
> read
> the New York times in the morning while I'm staying at his house.
>
> Oh, well. And the dongle business, that involves something else?
Like by
> plugging it into a computer, you effectively install Jaws on the
system
> and
> use up one of your authorization keys? So again, you wouldn't want
to go
> around wasting those authorizations, right, on computers here and
there
> that
> you didn't intend to return to use again soon, if ever?
>
> And where did this dongle word come from. Having no background
> familiarity
> with it, I keep imagining something related to "dangle," and see
something
> like a Savador Dali (sorry, visual art reference to a famous
painting
of a
> soft clock) thumb drive plugged into a USB port but sagging down
like
a
> piece of melted licorice candy. Maybe it's a reference to some
Irish
> village? Ah, to put down a few pints of Guinness with me old mates
at the
> pub in Dongle...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 8:06 AM
> Subject: Re: JFW on a thumb drive
>
>
> The value, according to the what's new section, is that you can
carry
your
> JAWS settings around with you. I agree, it's not the wondrous
solution
> that it appears to be on the surface.
>
> Bruce
>
>
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