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 -- 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, 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 > > -- 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.11/121 - Release Date: 10/6/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.11/121 - Release Date: 10/6/2005 -- 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. 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