Re: JFW on a thumb drive

  • From: Dave Durber <dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:05:42 -0400

Dongles that plug into the parallel port generally have an output port
to which you can attached your parallel printer or embosser.
Therefore it is a throu put device for the printer or embosser.

sincerely:

Dave Durber

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:26:33 -0500, you wrote:

>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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