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Supporting sighted people
by Ben Mustill-Rose 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

Hi all, I'll be supporting a sighted intern in December. At least that was what I thought would be happening until earlier today when I was told that he'd be starting on Monday. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can pear on things? He'll be using a Mac so VoiceOver is an option but I'd rather not as I want to be as unobtrusive as possible. The work is going to be typical devops stuff so a bit of programming and a bit of admin mainly over SSH. We make heavy use of GitHub for the programming side of things so I think I'll get him to work more or less independently then submit a pull request at which point we can discuss the code but I'm completely stumped about the admin side of things. All ideas very much appreciated. Cheers, Ben.

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Supporting sighted people
by Ben Mustill-Rose 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

Hi all, I'll be supporting a sighted intern in December. At least that was what I thought would be happening until earlier today when I was told that he'd be starting on Monday. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can pear on things? He'll be using a Mac so VoiceOver is an option but I'd rather not as I want to be as unobtrusive as possible. The work is going to be typical devops stuff so a bit of programming and a bit of admin mainly over SSH. We make heavy use of GitHub for the programming side of things so I think I'll get him to work more or less independently then submit a pull request at which point we can discuss the code but I'm completely stumped about the admin side of things. All ideas very much appreciated. Cheers, Ben.

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DD-WRT Installation
by David Mehler 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Hello, Does anyone onlist have experience doing a DD-WRT installation on a router? If so, can you get back to me. Thanks. Dave.

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Outlook 2016 and images
by Katherine Moss 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Hey all, Maybe somebody has some input on this that I'm missing? I was sent an image from an iPhone,, and you know how Apple does that where the image is embedded into the email rather than being a separate attachment (though screen readers will often identify them as "attachments"). I was only able to get the image out by finding the message in Outlook on my phone and posting it up on Facebook that way, though I was hoping to save it via my computer. Does anybody know of an accessible way to get these images out via Outlook 2016 desktop and save them, or are we stuck using our phones? More pressing is when I have this situation at work; people will send me screenshots to attach to tickets,, and I end up having to save the actual message encompassing the image as a .msg file to attach to the ticket. All because I can't seem to discover the proper place to click to save the image in its native format.

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Outlook 2016 and images
by Katherine Moss 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Hey all, Maybe somebody has some input on this that I'm missing? I was sent an image from an iPhone,, and you know how Apple does that where the image is embedded into the email rather than being a separate attachment (though screen readers will often identify them as "attachments"). I was only able to get the image out by finding the message in Outlook on my phone and posting it up on Facebook that way, though I was hoping to save it via my computer. Does anybody know of an accessible way to get these images out via Outlook 2016 desktop and save them, or are we stuck using our phones? More pressing is when I have this situation at work; people will send me screenshots to attach to tickets,, and I end up having to save the actual message encompassing the image as a .msg file to attach to the ticket. All because I can't seem to discover the proper place to click to save the image in its native format.

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cannot connect to sql server 2016 express
by Marvin Hunkin 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

Hi chris. Since you are a dba, and maybe a database guru, using sql server and management studio 2016 64 bit, now, it is not letting me connect. So googled, and said, to see if it is added to my firewall, it was not, so added the desktop short cut from the desktop, turned off the windows firewall, as my router has a hardware firewall. And now still getting this error message. Any ideas. Marvin. Ps: will paste below. See if I can repair it. Short of having to uinstall, then reinstall, and losing one database, as tied to visual studio. This is stupid. Marvin. =================================== Cannot connect to MARVIN-PC\SQLEXPRESS. =================================== A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) (.Net SqlClient Data Provider) ------------------------------ For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft%20SQL%20Server&EvtSrc=MSSQ LServer&EvtID=-1&LinkId=20476 ------------------------------ Error Number: -1 Severity: 20 State: 0 ------------------------------ Program Location: at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds..ctor(DbConnectionPoolIdentit y identity, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, SqlCredential credential, Object providerInfo, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnectionString userConnectionOptions, SessionData reconnectSessionData, DbConnectionPool pool, String accessToken, Boolean applyTransientFaultHandling) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOpti ons options, DbConnectionPoolKey poolKey, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionOptions userOptions) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreateNonPooledConnection(DbCon nection owningConnection, DbConnectionPoolGroup poolGroup, DbConnectionOptions userOptions) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.TryGetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal oldConnection, DbConnectionInternal& connection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionInternal.TryOpenConnectionInternal(DbCo nnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.TryOpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.TryOpenInner(TaskCompletionSource`1 retry) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.TryOpen(TaskCompletionSource`1 retry) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlStudio.Explorer.ObjectExplorerService.Vali dateConnection(UIConnectionInfo ci, IServerType server) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.ConnectionDlg.Connector.ConnectionThreadUs er() ps: running windows 10 64 bit pro. Will try again, but this is stupid, did try googling, and tried a couple of steps, so do I reboot my machine, will it connect.repair

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tool to repair sql server 2016 express
by Marvin Hunkin 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

Hi. cannot repair, does not like the sql server file I have, and the location, where I have it, does not show up as a folder. Any help. Any tools to repair. Marvin.

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DD-WRT Installation
by David Mehler 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

Hello, Does anyone onlist have experience doing a DD-WRT installation on a router? If so, can you get back to me. Thanks. Dave.

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about php
by Ibrahim Mahsoub 30 Oct '16

30 Oct '16

hello everybody i'm planing to lear php and i fined a grate toturial on youtube in my arabic language but the instructor useing sublime txt as edetor and he is also using xampp for apatshy and things i need for learning php the problem is that edetor and this xampp are not working any how with jaws so tell me the best in that feeld my os is 7 32 and also am using jaws17 alot of thanks to you and have a grate day -- ibrahem mahsoub blind computerest

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about php
by Ibrahim Mahsoub 30 Oct '16

30 Oct '16

hello everybody i'm planing to lear php and i fined a grate toturial on youtube in my arabic language but the instructor useing sublime txt as edetor and he is also using xampp for apatshy and things i need for learning php the problem is that edetor and this xampp are not working any how with jaws so tell me the best in that feeld my os is 7 32 and also am using jaws17 alot of thanks to you and have a grate day -- ibrahem mahsoub blind computerest

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