Re: JFW on a thumb drive
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 08:22:31 -0700
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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On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Yardbird wrote:
> 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
>
>
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