I've had FS give me more activations to run VMWare. I didn't tell them I was running it on a Mac however, none of their business anyway. On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Why didn't he approve? Why would FS even care. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > >> I rang up Freedom Scientific last year as I wanted a reset of my activation. >> I told them that I was running Jaws on my Mac under Fusion and as soon as >> the representative heard that he said he would not support me by giving me a >> new activation unless I wanted it for a native windows PC. This year I went >> to Site Village (an exhibition for all access Technology) and Eric Damerie >> was there and I told him that I was running Jaws on a Mac and he simply did >> not approve. >> >> Kawal. >> ___ >> Kawal Gucukoglu >> (E-mail/MSN): >> kawa...@me.com >> >> (Skype ID): >> >> kawalgucukoglu >> >> (Mobile/text): >> >> +447905618396 >> >> >> >> >> On 7 Sep 2011, at 21:20, Eric Caron wrote: >> >>> Hi Kawal, >>> >>> Freedom Scientific would not be happy to hear this but at least three >>> of the tech reps I talked to were very supportive of my Mac use. Two years >>> ago I was uncertain about buying a mac and mentioned that when working on a >>> unrelated JAWS problem. The Rep told me to get the Mac and I would love >>> it. He was correct! The other day I had another issue and before I knew >>> it the rep was asking me questions as she said she loved her iPhone and was >>> considering getting a Mac. Most recently I called for help with my work PC >>> and Jaws. I mentioned my problem with Jaws not starting in my VM and told >>> him I didn't expect him to answer that question as it was not supported. >>> In fact, he gave me a good idea to try and seemed familiar with the Mac. >>> The Mac seems to, in my experience, be becoming popular with at least some >>> of these reps. It really was one of these reps that was the final straw >>> resulting in my purchase of my Mac. I've never looked back! >>> >>> In all fairness I was dealing with real JAWS issues when I called, but in >>> all these cases the reps were supportive and either all ready knowledgeable >>> about the Mac or curious about them. >>> >>> >>> Even though I don't have all the bugs worked out of my VM yet I am >>> convinced that the over all experience with Windows on my Mac will be >>> better then my experience on a native PC. >>> >>> Eric Caron >>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: >>> >>>> Bood job you did not tell the Freedom Scientific representative that you >>>> were planning to install Jaws on a Mac as they do not support this. >>>> >>>> Kawal. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On 7 Sep 2011, at 12:57 PM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Eric, >>>>> Last week, a friend of mine bumped into someone who had the same problem >>>>> as you seem to experience, in that settings you make in jaws, don't hold >>>>> from shutdown to next run of jaws. And it is now resolved. We, that is my >>>>> friend and his friend, and I, have all been looking into the problem. We >>>>> have checked the permissions on the mac hd volume. We have checked inside >>>>> windows, to see if somewhere in documents and settings, where jaws stores >>>>> its configuration data, a rights problem was sitting. Why, would jaws, on >>>>> other systems, retain its settings, while on the vm it would not. We were >>>>> starting to think that this was a fusion problem. Even one of the Belgian >>>>> freedom scientific workers helped debugging the problem one entire >>>>> afternoon, but no luck. Until my friend's friend, came up with the >>>>> solution, found by accident. >>>>> >>>>> What you need to do, and this as worked for 2 people already that I know >>>>> of, is that you reset jaws to its factory default, thereby destroying all >>>>> your user settings. But, when you reconfigure jaws afterwards, you may >>>>> find that from then on, jaws will remember its settings. Albeit spelling, >>>>> autostart, and whatever. Please try that and report back on it, because >>>>> it seems that this is a nasty jaws bug, but so difficult to trace. To be >>>>> clear, my friend's friend encountered this same problem on a native >>>>> windows pc. He passed it on, and now it works for my friend as well. >>>>> Hth, >>>>> Paul. >>>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Eric Caron wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Kawal and Paul, >>>>>> >>>>>> thanks for this added info. >>>>>> >>>>>> My imported Boot Camp partition seemed to be working ok until I deleted >>>>>> the real Boot Camp. now each time I start the virtual machine I get a >>>>>> strange message that says something like can not connect file >>>>>> User/ecaron/library/application support/VM Fusion/Vertual >>>>>> machine/BootCamp/ Boot Camp.vvmwarevm//auto Detect as a CD rOM image Can >>>>>> not find the file. Vertual Device IDE 1 will start disconnected. I then >>>>>> press OK and things seem to work all right. this error message made me >>>>>> concerned so I decided to create a new virtual machine with my windows 7 >>>>>> disk and instal JAWS directly. That went ok until I decided to set up >>>>>> JAWS, still in 40 minute mode. It seems to work except it won't hold >>>>>> the check box setting to start at log in. This makes me concerned that >>>>>> it won't work correctly. Plus I need it to come up talking. >>>>>> >>>>>> So, I have two machines available at the moment. I only on ant one but >>>>>> I can't get either one to work correctly. >>>>>> >>>>>> I really appreciate the tips and information. Even just knowing someone >>>>>> else has Lyon working with VM and JAWS is helpful. I'm close to having >>>>>> this working! Perhaps there is just a setting I need to fix in one of >>>>>> the machines. >>>>>> >>>>>> Tips are greatly appreciated. >>>>>> >>>>>> Eric Caron >>>>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:10 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Eric, >>>>>>> I'm aware that people sometimes have issues with jaws when importing >>>>>>> their bootcamp partition into fusion but I can't tell you what is >>>>>>> wrong. Can't you remove the authorization from bootcamp, and then >>>>>>> reinstall it into fusion? >>>>>>> Hth, >>>>>>> Paul. >>>>>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:57 AM, Eric Caron wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Listers using VM Fusion, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> By the thime I get this working I'll be able to be a consultant for >>>>>>>> future listers. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I created a new VM not with Boot Camp and after fighting a bit I got >>>>>>>> Jaws 12 to instal. No matter what I do when I restart the virtual >>>>>>>> machine Jaws will not come up talking. I noticed that once I check >>>>>>>> the box for it to start at start up the check box is unchecked the >>>>>>>> next time I look at it. >>>>>>>> I don't want to wast a license on the machine if it will not hold the >>>>>>>> JAWS settings. Anyone have this working and the settings and >>>>>>>> authorization sticking? Any tips? This mac lover has been spending >>>>>>>> way too much time trying to get this VM working! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Eric Caron >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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