For 2 years, working in Localization, I had to scramble around for a Trados dongle whenever I had to do some analysis or Translation Memory maintenance. Though I work for a major localization vendor, with global offices and almost 2000 employees, we still had to share dongles… expensive little buggers.
Today, however, I finally received my own. I was so accustomed to the old Parallel-port version, that I was excited to get my hands on the smaller USB one.
Only problem is, now I can’t use the excuse “I don’t have a dongle”, when my boss asks why I’m not working.
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wrote on Feb 10, 2005 3:19 PM
Ok, not being a part of the savvy computer gadget world, this dongle looks like a dildo with which to diddle. And sharing them? Wow! I think I might say “I don’t have a dongle” at work every now and then just to throw people off…
wrote on Feb 10, 2005 4:32 PM
that is so totally nasty, jill. I would expect that kind of comment from Presley, but certainly not you!
heh.
wrote on Feb 10, 2005 7:16 PM
Ultimate Power Dongles!
In my day, we had parallel dongles only, and that’s the way we liked it. Well, no one liked it… but I liked it when the company’s in-house translation memory software went open source and didn’t need a dongle any more… for like a week…and then projects started requiring Trados. And then I ran screaming out the door.
wrote on Feb 10, 2005 8:14 PM
Wow, that’s one nice looking dongle (and I mean it.. I’ve seen the “regular” dongles!)