Yeah, it happens to the best of us.

I remember when I was a relative computer neophyte, probably only used a PC 
for about three years, back in the Days of Dos.

I was trying to log on to Voyager.net, which was a regional ISP in 
Mid-Michigan.  They had a bulletin board service and I was trying to log 
into it.  Apparently, I had forgotten my password.

I get a phone call and it is this dude with an English accent?  He asked if 
I was having a problem loggin in?  I said yes.  He was one of the ops.  He 
said, I shouldn't tell you this, but the first three digits of your password 
is 386.

Now, as you probably know, and this is the height of stupidity, those are 
the first three digits of people born in this area of the country assigned 
by the SSA.

Steve, K8SP
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tom Behler
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Jaws incorrect version Instalation Mystery Solved


Hey, Steve.

The IT people up here are also eating crow along with me, so if there's a
crow shortage in the upper mid west, you know why!

Actually, to be totally honest, I tried to explain in depth what happened to
at least one of our IT folks the other day, and, although I couldn't see it
for sure, I think he had one of those "deer in the headlights" looks on his
face.

Oh well, life goes on, and I'll learn not to put so much faith in Windows
Narrator next time.

Either that, or I'll have to get a tutorial of some sort on how to use it
more effectively.

Isn't this adaptive technology stuff fun!!!

Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 1:13 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Jaws incorrect version Instalation Mystery Solved

I wondered why I saw a bunch of crows flying northwest from Lansing a couple
days ago.

I'll send you a dozen eggs to go with them if you need some makeup for your
face.

Lol.

Yeah, that narrator can be nasty sometimes.

Steve, K8SP

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Behler
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 11:02 AM
Subject: Off Topic: Jaws incorrect version Instalation Mystery Solved


Hi, everyone.



You may remember that last week, Jaws 13 inadvertently got installed on my
new work laptop, instead of Jaws 16, which I thought would be directly
installed from the Jaws 16 CD.



It turns out that the fault was on this end, not with Freedom Scientific.



Here's my analysis of what happened and why:



Yesterday, I was nosing around on the desktop  of my new work laptop, and
found an executable file for Jaws 13.  It was called j13.0.92   4 64 bit.  I
checked the file properties, and the file was dated Monday: December 15 and
was time stamped at 10:09 a.m.  This is significant, because this was the
time when the University's I T people were in my office, and had transferred
a bunch of stuff from the hard drive of my old Windows 7 desktop to the new
work laptop.



I think that what happened was this:  Since I had no visual assistance
available when it came time to install Jaws 16, I used Windows narrator to
find what I thought was the Jaws 16 instalation package on the Jaws 16 CD,
and somehow ended up inadvertently choosing the Jaws 13 executable file.



Apparently, I'm not very good at using Windows Narrator in situations like
this, although I do find Narrator to not be as verbose as I would like.  In
addition, it also would have been nice to have visual assistance around, so
that I wouldn't have had to use Windows Narrator to begin with, and could
have gotten the correct file right from the new CD.



The really frustrating part of all of this is that, even though I
uninstalled Jaws 13 from the new laptop, and installed Jaws 16, something
got corrupted with the install, and I had to spend quite a bit of time late
last week with FS Tech support to do a major Jaws repair.



All and all, though, I think I'm now ok, and will certainly keep this in
mind for the future.  I also have sent a rather strongly-worded e-mail to
our IT folks, stressing the need for visual assistance with new adaptive
technology instalations, and also stressing the need for IT people to let us
know what files they are transferring onto any new computer that we might
use.



In closing, I want to sincerely thank Ron Miller and the folks at Freedom
Scientific for all of their help in working through this issue.  Ron, in
particular, went above and beyond the call of duty to help me figure out
what was going on, and that has been truly appreciated.



Tom Behler: KB8TYJ