Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Thanks, Scott. It's quite clear to me that you know a lot more about the who's who at this level than I do. I defer to you on this. I've just learned a lot, and I thank you for that. Seems to me if companies like Akamai, who I understand makes a business of media delivery, are happy with, and per

Re: a concerning innicdnet

May be it was updating? When you get apple window that normally happens because the computer is updating. That's been my experience. Kawal. > On 26 Nov 2016, at 12:56, aliFaisal wrote: > > Good morning, > When I woke up this morning to boot up my mac, I noticed something very > troubling. Th

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Well, first, I had actually built one of the first privately held rings so I was bringing in circuits of all sizes. I had a DS3 run in to my mother’s house at one point where I started my first ISP and then we moved we went to an OC12 then OC48 configuration with channel cards breaking out all

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Ah, T3. How I used to drool over those speeds--beyond the range of the possible, and why would you ever need that much as a single user? And, here today's it's barely qualifying as broadband speed! I hear you about open peering, but would you want your Netflicks stream to come across that way? Af

Re: Redmond pie article on airport replacements

OK, there are some choices in there, although I personally would not do the Google thing, given that they came out with something last year, and never came through with the updates that were supposed to happen. At least I would wait on it. Anyway, my main interest has to do with your play. I wou

Re: Finding special characters in Text Edit

Thanks. I’m hoping this is a temporary problem. I’m doing some file manipulation to get around bugs in a beta version of a program that hopefully will soon be fixed. Mostly asking to get a feel of how folks that have been using the Mac a lot longer than I have would deal with it. Based on tr

Re: Is your password published by hackers?

well, I checked and sure enough, one of the 5 emails I have was P0wn3d. easy enough to change the password. btw, Considering I have an Eidetic memory for password strings, it wasn't hard to change it to something nearly impossible to break and also remember. :) Hell, some of the passwords I use

Re: Finding special characters in Text Edit

Option-tab will insert a tab in the find dialog. Ctrl-enter will insert a line separator. Option-enter will insert a newline. > On Nov 26, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Larry Thacker Jr. > wrote: > > Thanks. I can’t find the line separator but it saves a step to do the > newline. option-t produces “dag

Re: Redmond pie article on airport replacements

I chose the Netgear AC1900 over the AC5300 because it was $100 cheaper. Been working quite well for me and my Apple TV. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/26/2016 6:40 PM, Scott Granados wrote: Redmond pie just posted an article discussin

Finding a file

I tried finding untitled.pages in Spotlite and only got untitled.txt. Where are the .pages files Located. my HD is called madkinnon. Thank you. Angus MacKinnon -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about th

Re: Finding special characters in Text Edit

Thanks. I can’t find the line separator but it saves a step to do the newline. option-t produces “dagger.” Since VO normally says “tab” when encountering a tab character, I’m not sure if that’s the right thing. I’ll be playing with it more tomorrow. > On Nov 26, 2016, at 7:50 PM, Phil Halt

Redmond pie article on airport replacements

Redmond pie just posted an article discussing router replacements for the Airport. They suggest a slightly less expensive Netgear from the same model range I mentioned and a few other interesting mesh options including one from Amplifi and one from Google. Read more here. http://www.redmondpi

Re: Any Way to Disable Signatures

One can drag signatures into a specific account, but this is quite difficult to do with VoiceOver. There is a AppleScript that creates a new message and then appends a random signature to the end of the message. signature Best wishes, Jonathan > On Nov 26, 2016, at 10:12 AM,

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

I’ll tell you what I remember about UUNet, $40,000 monthly for a DS3.:). Seems like another life time ago. Another thing I remember vividly about UUNet was when they went from an open peering network to very closed and depeered with everyone, including me.:). Then again I was always an open pee

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Ah, WorldCom. How well I remember the days of dialup around the planet with my local access number for uu.net! I had to place an international call for tech support on my first trip to Japan. I'd not previously encountered stutter tone as dialtone, and I couldn't remember the Hayes command to igno

Re: Mac OS safe mode

That is interesting. I expect there are a few commands necessary to enable that. Do you have a general procedure on enabling speech output via AirPlay while in safe mode? Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Nov 26, 2016, at 10:39 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: > > Hi. I can't speak

Is your password published by hackers?

It's possible to know whether you've been "homed," as the hackers call it when they discover a password associated with your email. For hacks like these that have been acknowledged, it's possible to know whether you're among them by using the database at: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ I learned tha

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Well, I am in Northern Virginia about 3 blocks away from where UUNET HQ was in the 1990's. They eventually moved out west of Dulles Airport in 1999 / 2000 after being bought by WorldCom. Why do I mention UUNET? Because Verizon bought WorldCom for pennies on the dollar after fraudulent accountin

Re: Finding special characters in Text Edit

Also, if this is something you are regularly doing then creating a sed or perl or python script might be worthwhile. The line s/\t/ / will find all tabs and replace them with 8 spaces. There are "tidy" programs that are often used for learning up program source code that are just more co

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Hi, Scott: Wow! Believe it or not, I remember that Verizon IPv6 page. It gave me hope while I still had FiOS at my last address over 5 years ago! As I recall, they were testing dual stack with Verizon employees in Northern Virginia. What seems to be missing, and I went and looked, is anykind of t

Re: Finding special characters in Text Edit

I'm pretty sure that option T will insert the tab character, and most likely option return or perhaps shift return or some combination thereof will insert the line separator character. I know you can get linefeed with option return. Sent from my IPhone > On Nov 26, 2016, at 5:13 PM, Larry Thac

Re: can't close preview pane in Mail on new MBP?

Thanks everyone. I don't know what I did differently than before, but suddenly, something worked and the pane closed. This is much better! > On Nov 26, 2016, at 17:41, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > > Here are instructions from Anne Roberson on how to close the preview pane in > Mail. > > Disabling

Re: can't close preview pane in Mail on new MBP?

Here are instructions from Anne Roberson on how to close the preview pane in Mail. Disabling the preview pane. Put Mail into classic view by opening Mail preferences (Cmd-Comma) and selecting Viewing in the toolbar then checking the Use classic layout check box. Close Mail preferences and navig

Finding special characters in Text Edit

I need to be able to find formatting characters in a text document and change or remove them. I’ve found that I can copy them to the clipboard and then paste them into the search and replace fields, but I wonder if there’s a better way. For example, I frequently want to change something Voiceo

Re: Trying to install an app from Safari and can't figure out where I go in system preferences to enable the functionality.

Tim, thanks. This finally worked. Joseph Hudson Group administrator for the following groups chat http://list.ntxability.org/mailman/listinfo/chat_list.ntxability.org blind apples http://cruising.ultragroups.com/mailman/listinfo/blindapples_cruising.ultragroups.com blind square GPS http://cruisin

Re: Trying to install an app from Safari and can't figure out where I go in system preferences to enable the functionality.

Hi, The easiest way to handle this is to bring up the Contextual menu for the installer. So, VO-shift-m on the given installer, then choose Open from that menu. The given installer will open and an alert will display asking if you're sure you wish to open this app from an unidentified develop

Re: A Question About Spam Calendar Event Invitations

I have pasted the entire contents of an article that addresses this below: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/technology/personaltech/fighting-ios-calendar-spam.html Fighting iOS Calendar Spam By J. D. B

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Hi Janina, here is a page detailing IPV6 on VZ. This looks somewhat out of date but it’s the only thing I could find that’s officially from VZ. https://www.verizon.com/support/consumer/consumer-education/ipv6 Also found a publi

Re: new file system

Sounds like Apple is catching up to where Unix based operating systems have been for years. I’m totally in favor. Bring on the new Apple file system. It will be more like other modern file systems. Windows should have no impact you run your windows either on it’s own file system anyway or wi

Re: new file system

Jonathan Cohn wrote: > The new file system is not a rumor it was talked about duringWWDC. Also, the > Arz Technica review of Sierra included a bit about the new file system. The features are similar, but not identical to those of ZFS under Solaris and BTRFS under Linux. Microsoft apparently hav

Re: How is everyone finding sierra?

Hi Jonathan, yes, I created a new user but got the same results, as well on my iMac and on my MacBook Air. No special settings, just standard settings. I can hardly beleive you are not experiencing that. Maybe you are not aware of it because you work differently or maybe because you use VO keys

Re: new file system

The new file system is not a rumor it was talked about duringWWDC. Also, the Arz Technica review of Sierra included a bit about the new file system. Some of the key benefits are copy on write for individual blocks of a file, so if you tell the OS to duplicate a directory, it will not actually m

Re: new file system

I suspect by the time this becomes reality that such concerns will be a non issue. Since none of us here are insiders, no one knows what is to come. What I find intriguing is how people want change (they look forward to the Apple events) then when rumors fly, they are none too thrilled.

Re: Braille screen input

Hi How would you complete the full cell? Best Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Nov 2016, at 8:52 pm, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > I can't do braille imput for some reason. Never could. So I use a braille > display. >> On 25 Nov 2016, at 16:55, Sandra E. Finley wrote: >> >> Good morning. Is anyon

Re: Turning down a block in Audio Hijack?

Take a volume block from the effects section and put it between the audio source and output blocks. That should let you adjust how loud the volume is to the output. > On Nov 26, 2016, at 11:25, Joshua Tubbs wrote: > > Hi everyone, > Is there a way to turn down an audio block in Audio Hijack? I’

Re: How is everyone finding sierra?

I have never experienced these issues. Perhaps do you have speak text under mouse enabled and also mouse follows VO cursor? I could see some possibility of how those settings would cause the dialog boxes to speak everything when moving to the last item on screen. It might be worthwhile creating

Turning down a block in Audio Hijack?

Hi everyone, Is there a way to turn down an audio block in Audio Hijack? I’m streaming a game via Fusion and everyone’s telling me the game is too loud. Is it better to just lower the game volume via Windows or is there a way to lower Fusion’s volume by way of Audio Hijack? Thanks. -- The foll

Re: Mac OS safe mode

I don't know if it is possible, but if somehow you could start a linux session from a flash drive from the mac commandline, you could use speakup to get the mack work done. On Sat, 26 Nov 2016, Simon Fogarty wrote: Hi List, I've recently done a mac training course with a certification exam

Re: Mac OS safe mode

Hi. I can't speak for single-user mode, but for safe mode, if you have an Apple TV it will work over airplay to get speech. Sent from my iPhone 6S Plus > On Nov 26, 2016, at 3:30 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi List, > > I’ve recently done a mac training course with a certification exam to c

Any Way to Disable Signatures

With the Christmas Season upon us I would like to include several seasonal signatures in my catalog of signatures. What I’m looking for is a way to have the Christmas signatures enabled while disabling the non-seasonal signatures. And then, of course, after the Holidays disabling the Christmas

Re: new file system

I honestly didn’t get the impression that Simon was “getting hot under the collar.” Rather, seems to me he was merely manifesting some concern that tools he uses might no longer be available. It’s improbable that those that are uncomfortable with change will not have such concerns; there’s no

Re: new file system

Hello Simon, Why you getting hot under the collar? Every year Apple release a new OS and it has been clear that users want easier integration with their portable devices. Apple have not hidden their intentions upon making the user experience seamless across their devices. Do you really think t

Re: new file system

I can’t imagine that Windows would be unable (BootCamp) to run on a non-Intel architecture. The user interface software typically does not interact with the platform hardware; the connection between the user interface (Windows/MacOS/Unix) and the hardware architecture is implemented via drivers

Re: can't close preview pane in Mail on new MBP?

Hi all, I can't get this to work. I've double clicked (simulated and real), dragged with the mouse, used VO to try to close it, tried in classic and standard layouts, and nothing. I've even tried AppleScript, toggling the "preview pane is visible" item, but the script says that Mail can't get th

a concerning innicdnet

Good morning, When I woke up this morning to boot up my mac, I noticed something very troubling. The mac chime sounded as per usual, but voiceover for some odd reason failed to start talking. From what I can tell, my mac was on a screen which somehow was causing voiceover to not activate. I trie

Re: new file system

Hi Simon. How are yu? I hope is not true since I use windows on my Mac. I do have a windows computer, but carrying that to somewhere where I can just use a computer that has both operating systems is not very beneficial. I was considering in purchasing a new Mac computer next year and use wi

new file system

Evening folks, Just wondering if anyone has heard about this new Apple File system that is seemingly to be released at some point next year! This apple training course I took last week the trainer was talking about it, Seemingly it will bring both Mac OS / OSX IOS Watch and tv OS devices in a

Mac OS safe mode

Hi List, I've recently done a mac training course with a certification exam to come, this is for el capitan currently but I'll be looking at updating it in early 2017 with a sierra certification as well. Two sections of the course dealt with problem solving issues within the Mac OS version, I

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Well, it saddens me to agree that Comcast service bites the big one. If my issue is simple and straight forward, I can usually get good service, but anything slightly above Level One support is bound to take time and persistance. Scott Granados writes: > You know what bugged me worse than the net

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

This is good to know, Scott. I'm glad they're finally rolling IPv6 on FiOS. Do you know if they have a page documenting their rollout? For the record Ipv6 is long since rolled out on T-Mobile across the U.S., predating their rollout of LTE. Their prefix is 2607:fb90 ... On some phones, you may nee