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.
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…
that is so totally nasty, jill. I would expect that kind of comment from Presley, but certainly not you!
heh.
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.
Wow, that’s one nice looking dongle (and I mean it.. I’ve seen the “regular” dongles!)