Yeah, but you may get the snow a bit later, so enjoy the warmth while you
have it.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


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From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 4:13 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Jaws incorrect version Instalation Mystery Solved

Green grass and warm in WNy and no snow.  Merry christmas.  KB2YAA

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Behler
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 8:56 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Jaws incorrect version Instalation Mystery Solved

And, a very Merry Christmas and happy new year to everyone from here in soon
to be snowy central lower Michigan!

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Ron Miller
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 11:03 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Jaws incorrect version Instalation Mystery Solved

Hi Tom,
You are quite welcome. It was a pleasure getting to know you during our
phon= e conversations and Tandem session.

I'll be sure to pass this on to our Technical Support staff. They truly did
t= he heavy lifting helping you get your computer squared away.=20

I hope you, and everyone on-list have a very merrn Christmas, happy New
Year=  and a blessed holiday season.

73

Ron Miller

> On Dec 22, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Tom Behler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi, everyone.
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> 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.
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> It turns out that the fault was on this end, not with Freedom Scientific.
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> Here's my analysis of what happened and why:
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> 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.
=
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> checked the file properties, and the file was dated Monday: December
> 15 an=
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> 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 
> transferr=
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> a bunch of stuff from the hard drive of my old Windows 7 desktop to 
> the ne=
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> work laptop.
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> 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.
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> 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.  I=
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> addition, it also would have been nice to have visual assistance 
> around, s=
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> 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.
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> 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 lat=
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> last week with FS Tech support to do a major Jaws repair.
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> 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 u=
s
> know what files they are transferring onto any new computer that we 
>might  use.
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> 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.
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> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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