[nfbcs] Jaws and activations

[I. C. Bray]

Brian,

Exactly how does a USB Dongle prevent you from burning keys??

Ian


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Jaws and activations


> ty,
>
> it's all a bs game. if you do anything at all like add ram or swap a dvd 
> drive, it breaks the activation and you have to use another key then 
> eventually get your count reset.
> there's no reason they should give you a hastle as they know all of this.
> i finally got sick of it and bought a usb dongle key a few years ago to 
> solve clients hardware problems without burning keys.
> Bryan Schulz
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
> To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:53 PM
> Subject: [nfbcs] Jaws and activations
>
>
>> Hello:
>> I had a quick question.
>> I was curious what the Jaws license allows in terms of the number of 
>> personal computers and virtual machines that it is installed on. I've 
>> explained that I have it installed on my school laptop and my personal 
>> desktop to Freedomscientific people and they seemed okay with it. Just 
>> recently though, I've been doing some upgrades--my desktop got upgraded 
>> (and might again soon), as did my laptop. Along with these upgrades I had 
>> to install Jaws on the school laptop which used my final activation, then 
>> my laptop got an upgrade in ram--apparently even adding more ram breaks 
>> the authorization. The person I speak to had a super long silence before 
>> he asked me why I wanted more activations, in a tone that suggested I had 
>> personally insulted him or something. He gave them to me, then basically 
>> hung up. it's not really the first time I got that sort of attitude 
>> either. Is there something up with FS staff and activations? Should I not 
>> be running jaws on two systems?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- 
>> Take care,
>> Ty
>> http://tds-solutions.net
>> He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he 
>> that dares not reason is a slave.
>>
>>
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