Re: carrier grade nat?
Obvious answer: use IPv6. That is the only viable long-term solution. Your applications all need to support it, and sadly many audio games don't (which is terrible).You can, as suggested, start up a VPS and forward traffic through it. Or you can connect to a VPN
Re: Scanner recommendations
It's a good question, actually, and one I can't believe I have cause to ask in 2017, especially since things haven't really changed all that much in terms of choices. And yet here I am. What a coincidence! The only difference is that I'd consider the blindness
Re: Scanner recommendations
It's a good question, actually, and one I can't believe I have cause to ask in 2017, especially since things haven't really changed all that much in terms of choices. And yet here I am. What a coincidence! The only difference is that I'd consider the blindness
Re: Scanner recommendations
It's a good question, actually, and one I can't believe I have cause to ask in 2017, especially since things haven't really changed all that much in terms of choices. And yet here I am. What a coincidence! The only difference is that I'd consider the blindness
Re: Scanner recommendations
It's a good question, actually, and one I can't believe I have cause to ask in 2017, especially since things haven't really changed all that much in terms of choices. And yet here I am. What a coincidence! The only difference is that I'd consider the blindness
Re: Scanner recommendations
It's a good question, actually, and one I can't believe I have cause to ask in 2017, especially since things haven't really changed all that much in terms of choices. And yet here I am. What a coincidence! The only difference is that I'd consider the blindness
Re: Scanner recommendations
It's a good question, actually, and one I can't believe I have cause to ask in 2017, especially since things haven't really changed all that much in terms of choices. And yet here I am. What a coincidence! The only difference is that I'd consider the blindness
Re: dilema, IOS or Android?
The taptic engine is one of the nicer features of the 7, and it's exploited very well by Black Box and some other apps as well as the system itself for providing touch feedback. It's probably not a big enough reason to choose the 7 over the SE if that's all you
Re: dilema, IOS or Android?
I don't disagree it's annoying, but it's also completely inevitable because Apple isn't selling 32-bit hardware any more and they control the store where developers submit their apps, so they're obviously not going to support a subsystem that has a short
Re: dilema, IOS or Android?
I don't disagree it's annoying, but it's also completely inevitable because Apple isn't selling 32-bit hardware any more and they control the store where developers submit their apps. You can still download 32-bit apps you've already purchased on a 32-bit
Free Crackanory Series on Audible
If you have an Audible UK account, and love black humour, go now to Audible home (mobile or desktop) and pick up Crackanory, which is the contemporary, adult version of Jackanory. There are three downloads, clearly marked as free. They cost nothing, and
Re: Window-Eyes No Longer for Sale
It might actually be possible, if you consider that out-of-band remote management technology is useful to corporations. You could imagine your firmware having an interface over the network you could control with another computer or app. That would
Re: Accessible Antivirus?
@Dark: if you launch disk optimisation, you'll soon be told if you have an SSD. Or you can grope around in properties for your system disk, to find out (the hint is probably in the name). Or, try Device Manager and/or storage management. Etc.
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Re: Apple music, worth it?
Well, it works, if that's what you want to know. Unlike Spotify, I'm pleased to say that I cancelled not because I didn't like the service, but just because I had no real need for it, and no real desire to burden the cost for the occasional musical jaunt. But
Re: Window-Eyes No Longer for Sale
Let's compare like for like, shall we? Apache is a sponsored project.But yes, point very well taken. I love FLOSS--use it all the time on servers--but I understand the reluctance of companies to use something for which they feel their is inadequate
Re: Window-Eyes No Longer for Sale
Well, to be fair, not everyone likes Python either. NVDA is a great community project, but I think the curve for mere mortals is still pretty steep if you actually want to improve it yourself. Ultimately, I think this is where GW got it absolutely right
Re: Accessible Antivirus?
Indeed; best case is that you are using a spinning HDD and the cleaning contracted the hive files sufficiently for you to experience a slight speedup, perhaps after vacuum and defrag. On today's SSDs, I can't imagine it will amount to anything at all besides the
Re: Questions about of choice the country
If, at this late stage, that's what you want, then it can certainly be arranged. As it now stands, there are more posts discussing spam than spam itself.
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Re: Monthly chat May 2017
Cats are lovely. They have the correct attitude to life—the right philosophy.
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Re: Window-Eyes No Longer for Sale
Yes, well, about that ... I'm struggling to see how NVDA Remote can seriously compare at all well to a solution like the one FS provides, which hooks the RDP functionality in the OS or in Citrix. As things stand JAWS includes all the docs and tools for
Re: Questions about of choice the country
It's better not to comment on spam directly on the thread, unless for purely comedic purposes, because it makes it much harder for us to remove the spam and still keep the thread understandable. Just report the spam and then create a thread under
Re: Questions about of choice the country
It's better not to comment on spam directly on the thread, unless for purely comedic purposes, because it makes it much harder for us to remove the spam and still keep the thread understandable. Just eport the spam and then create a thread under
Re: Questions about of choice the country
It's better not to comment on spam directly on the thread, unless for purely comedic purposes, because it makes it much harder for us to remove the spam and still keep the thread understandable.
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Re: Window-Eyes No Longer for Sale
Actually many Window-Eyes users would claim that about WinEyes, that it is and always was a screen reader for the advanced user who wishes to take command, much as NVDA is today in many ways. In fact this is still reflected in the Window-Eyes to JAWS
WannaCry
I imagine you already know, by now, of the WannaCry ransomware that spreads using the SMB1 file sharing protocol in Windows, XP through 7.Yes, I said XP. MS have even issued a patch for it (thereby proving themselves to be ransomware merchants of a kind too). Whatever version of
WannaCry
I imagine you already know, by now, of the WannaCry ransomware that spreads using the SMB1 file sharing protocol in Windows, XP through 7.Yes, I said XP. MS have even issued a patch for it (thereby proving themselves to be ransomware merchants of a kind too). Whatever version of
Re: Window-Eyes No Longer for Sale
I asked GW for my SMA counts to be added to my existing JAWS license, which already had a single SMA count, to enable all the feature flags, and to take my license back to Pro. Result is that I now have 18.0+3, which, really, isn't too shabby ...Of
Re: Window-Eyes No Longer for Sale
OK, so purely out of curiosity, I checked out System Access again. Former Serotek employees can't even recommend it anymore, however a couple of observations in my case are: that it did not correctly install on my (snapshotted, of course) XP VM, crashing
Re: Window-Eyes No Longer for Sale
System Access, eh? Now, can somebody here tell us what that's good for? Honest question ...@Dark: since there is absolutely no copy-protection on Window-Eyes whatsoever (one of its genuinely wonderful features, quite apart from either Supernova or JAWS)
Re: MP3 to become a thing of the past.
This whole "story" is simply that Fraunhofer is no longer collecting royalties on the use of the format. I dispute the view that MP3 is obsolete, even if it isn't the most advanced technology there is, on the theory of its sheer and more-or-less
Re: Window-Eyes No Longer for Sale
If you have a current Window-Eyes, you can get a current JAWS. And if you have SMA counts, they'll transfer. Check out the podcast on the linked page.I found Window-Eyes far more stable than JFW. YMMV. I don't think FS will be giving JFW away though, not
Re: Window-Eyes No Longer for Sale
I cut my teeth on Wineyes, starting from 3.0 on Windows 3.x. Gosh, happy days. Happy days ...
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Window-Eyes No Longer for Sale
And, sure as the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening, AI Squared discontinues Window-Eyes sales, and offers JAWS migration by way of an alternative. Existing users can migrate freely, before a July 31 deadline.We suspected that this would happen,
Re: Apple Air Pod alternatives?
I kept my AirPods. I am not blown away by them, but nor do I hate them or think they're terrible. I just don't understand the polarisation on either side, to be honest. Yes they are overpriced, but they have AAC and sound about as good as buds can hope to,
Re: Win10 S thoughts/opinions/etc
My worry is that MS will encourage Apple to do the same with macOS. I doubt they will, but you never know ...The iPad, of course, is already locked down, and is basically, like 10S, a basket case. The primary advantage of iOS is simply the ecosystem of
Re: Win10 S thoughts/opinions/etc
My worry is that MS will encourage Apple to do the same with macOS. I doubt they will, but you never know ...The iPad, of course, is already locked down, and is basically, like 10S, a basket case. The primary advantage of iOS is simply the ecosystem of
Re: Converting audible books to mp3
Inaudible is indeed the dog's bollocks. Or more specifically, ffmpeg (which it uses internally) is. Once you have your activation secret, you can perform a lossless decryption of your Audible books; the resulting files are .m4b which then play in iTunes
Re: Is deliveroo accessible?
I haven't tried Deliveroo yet, but I might because they've clearly got some good deals with some pretty important restaurants that others haven't (I think Dominos and Subways are among them). Right now I'm using and am almost completely happy with HungryHouse.
Re: any accessible mail clients?
I used to use Supernova extensively just for Pegasus Mail, a power-user MUA for Windows. I'd first heard about it because my school had it installed on-site, and Dolphin just so happened to have working "atlas" files for it because Hal was the approved
Re: Google mail and security to stupid levels!
Social engineering, eh? Mmm, time people looked for the padlock and made sure the address in the address bar is what they expect. Yes, yes, asking the impossible, I know. But still the only viable solution, unless we'd all like to have an
Re: Google mail and security to stupid levels!
@Trajectory, so what you're saying is that users shouldn't be trusted to pick secure passwords, is it? If so, I respectfully disagree. The job of any service provider ought to be to help users to choose good passwords, to admonish them to keep
Re: Google mail and security to stupid levels!
I always like these techno-rants. I think they're good for the soul. First thing's first. @Dark, if the service is free, you're the product. If you need quality email services, and you aren't hosting your own, you definitely ought to pay for
Re: Why Are There So Many Screen Readers For Linux?
I keep coming back to this. One day, one day ... but I just don't get the sense, even under GNOME3, that the experience is anything like as snappy or polished as Windows or Mac. I think it's clear that Orca development is very stretched,
Re: a litle surprise!
I also would like a VPS for free, so I can mine bitcoins without any capital outlay. Thanks.
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Re: Monthly Chat February 2017
@Dark yes, I know what you meant, of course ... but your sentence left just enough ambiguity for some dark humour, and you know how I'm always a sucker for that sort of thing. As for keyboards, well the chief reason is simply that if your system already has
Re: Monthly Chat February 2017
@Dark yes, I know what you meant, of course ... but your sentence left just enough ambiguity for some dark humour, and you know how I'm always a sucker for that sort of thing. As for keyboards, well the chief reason is simply that if your system already has
Re: Monthly Chat February 2017
Mmm, I think I'll refrain from further purchasing just now, in case I go bankrupt. Also, if I'm honest I think I need to diversify again a little bit (I got a couple of Big Finish's new Classics series which are looking up to be a lot of fun). Frankenstein
Re: A couple of windows 10 questions
Of course you did. Everybody does that, eventually. Congratulations. I agree, standard procedure with modern Windows (works well on 8.1 also): just keep installing stuff till it doesn't suck anymore.
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Re: Monthly Chat February 2017
I like your spelling of Brexit. Perhaps "Bwrecksit" is better. My brother is looking to live back at home, but since he's now got a job the council won't be supporting us and mother will probably fret about her share of the rent. I have hope yet that we
Re: Supernova disappointments
@Dark that's wonderful.Dolphin made a PCMCIA card for the Apollo II family for use with notebooks of the time, called Gemini. It had a distressing habit of fraying at the seam between the card and the module bolted onto its exterior end, into which you plugged
Re: Supernova disappointments
@Dark that's wonderful.Dolphin made a PCMCIA card for the Apollo II, called Juno. It had a distressing habbit of fraying at the seam between the card and the module bolted onto its exterior end, into which you plugged your headphone jack. In an exam, once, it
Re: Monthly Chat February 2017
Right. Following in from this post, I think you should know that Graceless 4 is out. No comment yet on the performance yet as I've yet to listen to it, but happily I had only just listened to Graceless series one to three (yes, finally!). In fact that's the
Re: Monthly Chat February 2017
Right. Following in from this post, I think you should know that Graceless 4 is out. No comment yet on the performance yet as I've yet to listen to it, but happily I had only just listened to Graceless series one to three (yes, finally!). In fact that's the
Re: Monthly Chat February 2017
Right. Following in from this post, I think you should know that Graceless 4 is out. No comment yet on the permormance yet as I've yet to listen to it, but happily I had only just listened to Graceless series one to three (yes, finally!). In fact that's the
Re: Supernova disappointments
I've been a long-time Dolphin customer, too. Ever since the days of their old external speech synthesisers (Mimmic, Apollo, etc) and Hal for DOS. Great years, great company. A shame they've come to this. Even Supernova for Windows was technically brilliant,
Re: Supernova disappointments
I've been a long-time Dolphin customer, too. Ever since the days of their old external speech synthesisers (Mimmic, Apollo, etc) and Hal for DOS. Great years, great company. A shame they've come to this. Even Supernova for Windows was technically brilliant,
Re: A couple of windows 10 questions
Sorry, I apparently wasn't clear that the subscription fee is yearly, so that's £48 yearly. And yes Amazon is offering you a code, in partnership with Microsoft, so it's a legitimate purchase as long as it's being sold by Microsoft on Amazon's
Re: A couple of windows 10 questions
Office isn't free.Buying standalone is more expensive. This is, of course, by design ... on Amazon, Home and Student is £107, whereas 365 personal is just £48. Maybe, even if you don't use OneDrive (a whole terabyte of storage, which is the only reason
Re: Supernova disappointments
FWIW, I have and maintain a license for all of the screen readers now (I got a head start from Dolphin courtesy of my work experience there). I can honestly say that, even today, every screen reader has its upsides and its downsides. Yeah, at the moment my
Re: Supernova disappointments
Mmm-hmm. Had to happen, eventually.I wouldn't discard it outright. You need at least one "screen-scraping" screen reader. But you're right, Supernova, while very awesome in very many ways, is a highly traditionalist screen reader that only moves when it has
Re: Dual sin on iPhone?
Yes, it can be done indirectly using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth hardware and a separate app. If it's just data then there are loads of these Mi-Fi wireless router device thingies. I use one made by Tp-Link. It has a web interface just like a home broadband router and it
Re: humanware and World Braille Day
The primary reason I'm not big on the BrailleNote Touch as opposed to the Apex is simply that the Apex, with its totally obsolete productivity suite, is still the better choice for actually reading and writing braille and text files, of the kind I'd
Re: monsterclaw all new website PWNER available from david P!
Just to add that I've run the tool in a sandbox and it wants to communicate with http://45.32.225.55:2917 . It didn't "attack" the IP address I supplied (on my own LAN, of course).So the conclusion is that whatever this tool is,
Re: monsterclaw all new website PWNER available from david P!
Just to add that I've run the tool in a sandbox and it wants to communicate with http://45.32.225.55:2917 . It didn't "attack" the IP address I supplied (on my own LAN, of course).So the conclusion is that whatever this tool is,
Re: GNOME 3
Well I'll play with it some more, but for me the lag is quite noticeable. Like, quarter-of-a-second noticeable. I'm not sure I can work with that. It feels worse than Yosemite, even.Anyway, I'm going to try doing a proper installation with Fedora, if I possibly can. I'd like to
Re: GNOME 3
Yes, if you really wanted you could use a GNOME desktop under Ubuntu. I'd give a look to Fedora however as that's natively GNOME. That's what I'm going to try next, although it's been giving me trouble in virtual machines.Firefox is still laggy for me. Your right, it seems
Re: humanware and World Braille Day
OK, I signed up. I don't have my hopes up, but since the cursor routing buttons on my Apex are going, I might as well give it a shot. Have a feeling the repair is going to be expensive.
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Re: GNOME 3
Yes, if you really wanted you could use a GNOME desktop under Ubuntu. I'd give a look to Fedora however as that's natively GNOME.Firefox is still laggy for me. Your right, it seems worse on heavy sites, but regardless it's nothing like as snappy on Windows under NVDA. I don't
Re: humanware and World Braille Day
Is it an international draw? I don't have that email, and I'm sure I'm on Humanware's list, in the UK.
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Re: GNOME 3
GNOME 3 is a desktop environment. Ubuntu is a distribution, which comes with their own proprietary "Unity".eSpeak through speech-dispatcher is all right however the fact that Firefox is nearly unusable makes up for that ... you still need ChromeVox, unless anyone has any
GNOME 3
My enthusiasm for Linux is on the upswing again, particularly as regards GNOME 3.Is anyone using it, full-time, or at least for a significant part of their workflow? Which distro? Has anyone had success with Fedora, which seems to be the cornerstone of GNOME these days?I don't
Re: Amazon echo what does it do, and what do you need?
The app you want is called Amazon Alexa, and here's a link to the UK store.The setup process is accessible, certainly, but I'm not sure about the interactions with Alexa via the app. I assume it's nothing you can't do by just asking
Re: Amazon echo what does it do, and what do you need?
To be honest I think this really just emphasises the problem with all "cloud-connected" things: they're dependent on a server to work. That can be nice, as long as it's just for convenience, but what happens when you need interaction
Re: Amazon echo what does it do, and what do you need?
To be honest I think this really just emphasises the problem with all "cloud-connected" things: they're dependent on a server to work. That can be nice, as long as it's just for convenience, but what happens when you need interaction
Re: Amazon echo what does it do, and what do you need?
To be honest I think this really just emphasises the problem with all "cloud-connected" things: they're dependent on a server to work. That can be nice, as long as it's just for convenience, but what happens when you need interaction
Re: Amazon echo what does it do, and what do you need?
To be honest I think this really just emphasises the problem with all "cloud-connected" things: they're dependent on a server to work. That can be nice, as long as it's just for convenience, but what happens when you need interaction
Re: Amazon echo what does it do, and what do you need?
To be honest I think this really just emphasises the problem with all "cloud-connected" things: they're dependent on a server to work. That can be nice, as long as it's just for convenience, but what happens when you need interaction
Re: Amazon echo what does it do, and what do you need?
I can't speak for the quality, but yes your Echo can behave like a Bluetooth speaker. In other words you go from your Victor to the transmitter, and from there to the Echo. Of course, you'll still have to control the playback from the
Re: Amazon echo what does it do, and what do you need?
I can't speak for the quality, but yes your Echo can behave like a Bluetooth speaker. In other words you go from your Victor to the transmitter, and from there to the Echo. Of course, you'll still have to control the playback from the
Re: Amazon echo what does it do, and what do you need?
I can't speak for the quality, but yes your Echo can behave like a Bluetooth speaker. In other words you go from your Victor to the transmitter, and from there to the Echo. Of course, you'll still have to control the playback from the
Re: Amazon echo what does it do, and what do you need?
I can't speak for the quality, but yes your Echo can behave like a Bluetooth speaker. In other words you go from your Victor to the transmitter, and from there to the Echo. Of course, you'll still have to control the playback from the
Re: Amazon echo what does it do, and what do you need?
I should have known from the cynical tone of the post that it'd be you, Dark, but I thought it was somebody else and was unsurprised when I discovered my error. In fact, as a proud cynic myself, I must say that I do believe my cynical
Re: Drive Encryption
I wonder how BitLocker stacks up. That's the OS subsystem for this job.It seems ... strange ... that anything should be required of you but the entry of your password. If you or anyone else ever do figure out WTF is going on, it'd be nice to hear it.BTW, the Mac's
Re: Drive Encryption
I wonder how BitLocker stacks up. That's the OS subsystem for this job.It seems ... strange ... that anything should be required of you but the entry of your password. If you or anyone else ever do figure out WTF is going on, it'd be nice to hear it.BTW the Mac's
Re: Drive Encryption
I wonder how BitLocker stacks up. That's the OS subsystem for this job.It seems ... strange ... that anything should be required of you but the entry of your password.
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Re: What kind of server would you recommend?
@SLJ no problem; feel free to mail me if you need (it's right there on all my posts).By learning from the bottom up, I mean you should start with the mechanics and principles and go upward, instead of trying to digest everything necessary, at
Re: What kind of server would you recommend?
You certainly jumped in at the deep end, didn't you? This is why I generally prefer to explain Linux from the bottom to the top, rather than the other way around--there's a lot of fundamental stuff you should really know before you go playing
Re: What kind of server would you recommend?
You certainly jumped in at the deep end, didn't you? This is why I generally prefer to explain Linux from the bottom to the top, rather than the other way around--there's a lot of fundamental stuff you should really know before you go playing
Re: Dropbox is ending support for the public folder.
Well it certainly doesn't help that even by the time we get around to adding them, many are already dead. AGArchive.net is of course a great help with this, since a lot of the time this comes up when somebody is asking for a copy of X,
Re: cannot get gigabit ethernet on my pc
Oh right. And remind me again (I'm sure I've seen this somewhere, but I forget) what's the sequence?Did you say your chipset driver is older from the manufacturer than it is from Toshiba?
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Re: What kind of server would you recommend?
Yes. That would download just the file. But (at the risk of putting a damper on things) it's a teensy bit more complicated than that ... the shell characters that might be in URLs need to be escaped. The best way is to use single quotes, or
Re: Dropbox is ending support for the public folder.
@Arq: S3 is primarily intended for developers, so the primary mechanism is an API. However S3 does have a (pretty terrible) web-based interface. I normally use the command-line but there are plenty of third-party clients (Cyberduck and
Re: cannot get gigabit ethernet on my pc
The Windows drivers situation is absolutely horrible.Wouldn't driver signing stop you modifying your driver anyway?
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Re: Dropbox is ending support for the public folder.
Well, of course, it's the wrong paradigm for most services to store your data only on the cloud, by nature; the whole point is that your local copy is backed up by the cloud, is accessible from the cloud, and is replicated to every other
Re: Accessible E-Book reader applications?
While we're discussing this: what's the approved ePub reader for Windows that doesn't destroy formatting?
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Re: cannot get gigabit ethernet on my pc
Replace the cable and try again. If you can't, blame the cable you have, or the switch-port at the other end. Your network adaptor might be just fine, but if you really dispute it, get yourself a cheap gigabit USB adaptor and try again.
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Re: What kind of server would you recommend?
The Mac Mini would be better if it were the 2012 model, quad-core. But the current Minis are still pretty good if your server load will be predictable. Virtualisation is one thing that probably throws this calculation off though.Yours is not a
Re: Dropbox is ending support for the public folder.
Translation: we are tired of being mistaken for a free web host and are taking active steps to make certain people don't make the same mistake again ...I haven't used Dropbox now since Rice began overseeing Dropbox's privacy commitments.
Re: Qube not posting tweets.
For God's sake, it's 2016 and there's still no credible Twitter client for Windows that's accessible.At this rate the only option is to buy an iPad, so I can use a keyboard, so I can tweet! Ridiculous.
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Re: the iPhone's home button
What about the iPhone SE? That's still a practical path for some; newer than the iPhone 5/5S but with none of the inconveniences of 7/7Plus.
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