October 2017 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Buying a NAS for my home
by Simon Eigeldinger 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

Hi all, I plan to get myself a NAS. I am thinking of the Synology DS216J. What do you think? We have QNAP NASs in the office which are unfortunately not very accessible with their Web GUI. We also have 2 old Buffalo DiskStations which still work though they are very old. their interface is also pretty accessible. I pretty like Synology's interface which you can also check out online: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/live_demo Great when you can have a look at interfaces. Greetings, Simon --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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portable power
by David Mehler 14 Oct '17

14 Oct '17

Hello, I'm in the market for portable power. I am looking for recommendations for products that people have bought, used, and liked, and why you like them. The first is a portable power bank. My goal is portability, but the biggest battery I can find. I've read about several, I don't mind if it looks like a brick, if it can go in a laptop bag it can go with me, but it's got to have a big battery, be able to handle multiple devices if needed, and would be nice if it would support quick charge/fast charge. The second item I'm looking for is a wireless fast charging pad. I've seen a few of them, ones by Choetech but they don't have the charger with them and some of them are not even fast charging, they're just wireless. Any recommendations appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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JFW reading terminals
by Kieran Little 14 Oct '17

14 Oct '17

Hi, Not sure if this is the best place to ask this but it's the only list I'm subscribed to. I'm supposed to be working with a lot of cisco equipment at the minute, through SSH and terminal sessions. I'm using JFW since it was bought for me, all of our cisco equipment requires you to be on a remote server to configgure it and I can't use NVDA remote anyway because of firewalls, ETC. I've got JFW working fine remotely, but either on the local JAWS or remote JAWS I can't get it to read terminals. I'm using both PUTTY and tera term. It reads CMD fine just not terminals. Are there any special settings ETC I need to change? Cheers for any help. Kind regards, Kieran. -- Kieran Little IT Apprentice Information Services Northumberland County Council County Hall Morpeth NE61 2EF tel: 01670623699 Email: kieran.little(a)northumberland.gov.uk Website: www.northumberland.gov.uk -- <http://family.northumberland.gov.uk> *Save Time Do It Online!* We have made a few key improvements to our site to make our services easy to access. Now you can do everything from paying your council tax, to reporting a faulty street light online. Go to: www.northumberland.gov.uk and click 'pay, apply or report' to access the relevant forms. This email is intended solely for the individual or individuals to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this email is prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the email from any computer. All email communication may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with internal policy and relevant legislation. *Please, consider your environmental responsibility. Before printing this e-mail ask yourself: "Do I need a hard copy?"*

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NVDA with Secure CRT is amazing!
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 14 Oct '17

14 Oct '17

Because I'm having a lot of problems with Jaws at the moment, I'm using NVDA a lot more than I would have. NVDA is slowing me down in Outlook and of course, I cant use it in remote desktop environments reliably but where it is really shining is in SecureCRT! I've just successfully connected to a Linux machine, Then used SSH to connect to a remote server where I needed to update some files. I used simple commands. Ls, pwd, ps etc and the feedback was perfect every single time. Then I ran nano and to my delight I was able to accurately navigate by character and by line. I haven't had that kind of reliability from a Windows screen reader in an SSH session before. I'm just delighted! I've also found good success in the command line and in powershell. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Websites: Personal: www.digitaldarragh.com<http://www.digitaldarragh.com> Professional: www.computersupportservices.ie<http://www.computersupportservices.ie> Music: www.ceol.fm<http://www.ceol.fm>

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Accessibility improvements in the Windows console
by Gianugo Rabellino 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Since quite a few of you use the Windows console, I thought I'd bring to your attention some major accessibility improvement in the terminal/console experience coming in the next Fall Creators Update. You can find more details and a short demo at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/10/11/whats-new-in-window…. We would love to hear your feedback on the new integration with Narrator (and other screen readers): I, for one, am excited to see the new architectural changes that will hopefully pave the way for better integration going forward. Gianugo

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Android development on Linux
by Fernando Botelho 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Hi everyone, I am told that in most corporate environments Android development is usually done through Android Studio. I am also told that Android Studio is currently inaccessible on Linux because the Java ATK Wrapper has not been worked on for a while: https://git.gnome.org/browse/java-atk-wrapper/ Can anybody confirm for me that what one needs to use Android Studio on Linux is an updated Java ATK Wrapper? Any idea of where one could find dev help or funding to fix this wrapper? I am probably able to find some funding on my own, but not enough. Thanks, Fernando

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vhd boot
by mattias jonsson 07 Oct '17

07 Oct '17

How to create a vhd with e.g win 7? Levtec vhdboot are out of question On https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/boot-… ms will describe it but to tecnical Skickades från E-post<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> för Windows 10

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vhd boot
by mattias jonsson 07 Oct '17

07 Oct '17

How to create a vhd with e.g win 7? Levtec vhdboot are out of question On https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/boot-… ms will describe it but to tecnical Skickades från E-post<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> för Windows 10

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server tools
by Marvin Hunkin 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hi. Asking for a friend, and he's not too technically and just got banned from a mailing list or two, not sure why, but they have a good reason, and cannot even remember what the mailing list or group. So he was asking, is there any server tools, that would him to unban him self from any servers. If this question, gets me banned, then fully accept and just my stupid fault, thought I did read the rules some where or maybe did google. Hope this is on topic. Thanks. Ps: so is there a way for some one like my friend, and just call him fred, to protect his privacy, so, any ideas, or is this getting close to illegal software or illegal activity, did try to google this question, and did not seem to find a real answer. So did try and do research, and trawled through about 30 pages. And did try yahoo search and also start page, but nothing even came close. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Mail handling for personal domains (was Migrate from Office365 to Outlook.com)
by Jason White 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

I'm presently running a mail server for my personal domain via a Linux installation hosted at linode.com. It works well, and the virtual machine is also offering various other services that I've configured (DNS, a small Web server, telephony via FreeSWITCH - not functional at the moment but likely to be reconfigured when I have time, etc.). There is no calendar, though I would like one that is compatible with both iOS devices and Microsoft Outlook. The main problem with the mail server is spam. I've tried SpamAssassin, rspamd and, the most successful of the options, crm114, which regrettably isn't currently maintained but still runs. The best that I've been able to achieve regrettably yields too many false positives. Thus my options are either to rework the antispam solution or to consider having the mail hosted by a large mail provider. Google and Microsoft, for example, can host, but it appears that one has to be a business in order to host domains with them, under a business plan. Of course, I love command line administration and the flexibility to configure everything - I would rather not go to an entirely Web-based UI designed for nontechnical users that doesn't provide the desired degree of control. I'm not running a business of any kind - I'm an individual in ongoing, full-time employment. Suggestions are welcome. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart via Blind-sysadmins Sent: Monday, October 2, 2017 7:26 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Ryan Shugart <ryshugar(a)microsoft.com> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Migrate from Office365 to Outlook.com Hi: I looked at doing this myself a while ago for my personal domain, but in the end decided not to go there for now. Outlook.com is using Exchange on the back end, but you don't admin it like an Exchange account, AKA it didn't look like you had access to the EAC or Powershell CMDlets like you do with Exchange Online. I also couldn't figure out how to do some things like set up email aliases for users so multiple email addresses went to one account, set up group distribution lists, etc. So if you're looking for just basic email accounts and nothing more this may be OK, but if you want more advanced functionality, for now at least, you may want to stick to O365 with Exchange Online. I've always had the O365 business essencials package which doesn't have any Office downloads (accept for the Skype for Business client) and then used other options to get copies of Office. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Monday, October 2, 2017 8:52 AM To: blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Migrate from Office365 to Outlook.com Hi, For those of us who use Office365 as Exchange accounts for personal use, you may like to know that outlook.com is now powered by Exchange Online and has the same features as Office365. You need to subscribe to Outlook Premium and pay a domain adding fee yearly to get this, but that gives you 5 email addresses. For those of us with 5 Office365 subscriptions that is quite a saving. I haven't done the migration as I pay annually for my subscription, and still may continue with it at the moment. From what I have read there is downtime as you need to delete your domain from the Office365 control panel and then add it into Outlook to make sure everything migrates across, there is apparently a nasty situation if you cancel the account without doing this where your domain is in limbo for 90 days in the database. That gives you an outlook.com and a domain email, you can then invite 4 more outlook.com members to sign up for your domain, giving you 5 addresses in total. If I don't do anything else I will be migrating to the Office365 personal next year instead of paying for the Office software as part of the subscription as it works out cheaper and gives you 1GB of OneDrive space per account which is actually quite useful as other apps use OneDrive personal and can't access OneDrive Business. Just thought it would be interesting for people. Let me know if you do it, Andrew. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.hodgs onfamily.org%2Flistinfo%2Fblind-sysadmins&data=02%7C01%7Cryshugar%40microsof t.com%7Ccf3c3c27bcf249b53a8008d509ad95ab%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47% 7C1%7C0%7C636425563536744144&sdata=2%2BXxLD3TzOIEq5ERe13UO3RnLMvdlEM8%2FcPq% 2BvqK4Ds%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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