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question for the managers ...
by Katherine Moss 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Hey all, Opinions would be great on this ... which is more powerful in hiring decisions in the IT community these days? (Especially in Massachusetts.) I have a college degree, though it's in English, so I highly doubt it was even considered when I got my helpdesk job here. Someone I know who has no college degree, no IT or industry certifications, and he's sitting here getting all the jobs he wants, while meanwhile, I know someone more talented, not to mention, better at what he does, who's been trying for years to get a job, he's got a certification, and not getting callbacks at all, even though he'd be more than qualified for what he's applying for. You think it's the blindness VS sighted battle again? Or do you think it's college VS no college education? (though correct me if I am mistaken, though aren't certifications nearly as powerful and authoritative as college degrees, especially when you've got someone like me working in IT with a college degree in an entirely different field with zero certifications?)

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Update on the PowerEdge T110 ram issue
by Katherine Moss 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Hi all, Just to update you guys. Turns out I've forgotten to give that server all of his firmware updates, so I'll try that and then see what happens.

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Update on the PowerEdge T110 ram issue
by Katherine Moss 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Hi all, Just to update you guys. Turns out I've forgotten to give that server all of his firmware updates, so I'll try that and then see what happens.

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Hangouts and IOS 9
by Jad Wauthier 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Is anyone else experiencing issues running Google Hangouts on IOS 9? --------- Jad wauthier | Problem Solver 512.743.9332 It's all in the perception. Sent from my iPhone

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Hardware refresher: speaking as a blind person
by Katherine Moss 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Hello all, Just had a rather embarrassing moment yesterday when I attempted to insert some new ram modules into my server and then realized shortly afterward that either, I don't know how the heck to do it anymore, or I'm too skittish to, due to last year's events (had a particular person in my life who thought he knew it all, and for him, teaching me and nurturing my tech interests was not in the cards.) Well, so as blind individuals, how do we insert ram modules properly? (I, or rather my father, added eight gigabytes to the existing four, though now only two slots appear to be filled.) They must not be seated properly, because he, fully sighted, was struggling with it as well. If it helps, the model server I have is a Dell PowerEdge T110, and from what I've heard, that board's a pain in the butt to work with. When working with ram as a blind person, is a motherboard a motherboard? Or are they all different? And not to mention the color codes? (this particular board has black and white slots.)

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create a unattended .sif file for windows xp
by mattias jonsson 18 Oct '15

18 Oct '15

Yes yes yes I no xp are outdated.. Any program to create a fully unattended .sif file For xp? I tried setupmgr.exe on win 7 but " unable to reed time zone from registry"

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create a unattended .sif file for windows xp
by mattias jonsson 18 Oct '15

18 Oct '15

Yes yes yes I no xp are outdated.. Any program to create a fully unattended .sif file For xp? I tried setupmgr.exe on win 7 but " unable to reed time zone from registry"

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by Ibrahim Mahsoub 18 Oct '15

18 Oct '15

hi everybody in this groupe i'm starting today to put my hand on developing apps for android with its studio but i found thats not working with jaws so what can i do for use the app? -- ibrahem mahsoub blind computerest

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by Ibrahim Mahsoub 18 Oct '15

18 Oct '15

hi everybody in this groupe i'm starting today to put my hand on developing apps for android with its studio but i found thats not working with jaws so what can i do for use the app? -- ibrahem mahsoub blind computerest

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to users of Image for Windows
by David Mehler 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Hello, Do we have any users of Image for Windows? I used it on a win7 talking install to back up a 160 gb hd which worked fine. I then put another drive in an enclosure, this one a 500 gb hd and loaded the image on to that. This also went fine, booted it up the new drive and all is working. Except... Well, image for windows did not enlarge the partition, I've used ghost way way back in the past from bootable floppy with batch files and it had an option to resize the disk, I've got a 160 gb partition on a 500 gb drive. I'm needing to know two things: first, can this be avoided in the future, can image for windows automatically resize to a larger drive? Secondly, I need to resize safely the 160 gb partition so it will fill the entire disk. Thanks. Dave.

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