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Microsoft training question
by Ryan Shugart 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

Hi everyone: I was scheduled to take an advanced Windows Server 2012R2 course from a local Microsoft training center in a few weeks, but it looks like that may have ran into some problems. The training center used to be very traditional with these courses, a local instructor and for labs they had a workstation in front of you with a few Hyper-V virtual machines. With a little Window-Eyes tweaking it went very well. But now, half the time the instructors are remote, and they have some strange way of running the labs off a central server that doesn’t use traditional remote desktop. I went through this before with New Horizons in my area, and even after showing them how to make accommodations for me, they just didn’t want to talk about it or even consider it. So I went to this other place and now that they’ve been bought out they’re starting to do the same thing. So, I’m wondering if anyone has a good experience with a training center they’d be willing to pass on? I’m all about technical books and setting up test labs yourself, but sometimes there’s still a good place for a good vendor training course. Thanks. Ryan

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windows 7
by Marvin Hunkin 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

Hi. Yes, did create the recovery disks, and yes have legal keys and came with windows 7. So yes, got the dvds, so might just have to go back there and maybe install. So, Is there a tool to do this. Marvin.

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downgrading windows 8.1 64 bit enterprise to windows 7 64 bit pro help
by Marvin Hunkin 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

hi. a blind student doing programming from http://www.upskilled.edu.au and using jaws for windows from http://www.freedomscientific.com. I got a Toshiba satellite pro c-50-a in 2014, and had windows 7 pro 64 bit, and I upgraded to windows 8.1 64 bit enterprise through my lectuer. now they are going with windows 10, and he said he could not activate his windows 10 enterprise versions, at his school. so he sent me a windows 7 pro 64 bit, and have the key. and backed up all my data to an external hard disk. now when I run the dvd, and use jaws, it says to get the updates online. when I try this, it then gives me an error message, saying the installation files could not be found or installed. so have tried four or five times, even did a shutdown and reboot. did not fix that issue. so, it says not to not get the updates, and need them, so, is there a tool to downgrade from 64 bit enterprise to 64 bit windows 7 pro. can you help? marvin.

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Clearing the find buffer Word 2013
by Troy Hergert 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

Hi, Does anyone know the keyboard command for Word 2013 to clear the find/replace buffer, so that control page keys will resume page navigation? In Word 2010 it was Control alt home home then enter. It changed in 2013. I can't find a reference to this. Thanks. Troy

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Clearing the find buffer Word 2013
by Troy Hergert 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

Hi, Does anyone know the keyboard command for Word 2013 to clear the find/replace buffer, so that control page keys will resume page navigation? In Word 2010 it was Control alt home home then enter. It changed in 2013. I can't find a reference to this. Thanks. Troy

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windows
by Marvin Hunkin 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

Hi. My lectuer is going to send me dvds of windows 7 64 bit pro, and windows 10 64 bit pro, and have found my windows 7 key. Also visual studio community edition 2015, 32 or 64 bit. And I do not have to design diagrams. What I can do is research all the diagrams, then write in a report, what they are, what they do, how they relate to the c # application, I wrote, earlier in the course, a application for a toy store stock control program. Thanks. Marvin.

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sql
by Marvin Hunkin 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

Hi. What about using sql management studio. And for web pages and stuff, you need visual studio, and the asp dot net and maybe azure. And then the sql database. Good luck. Marvin.

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Accessible Linux distros
by Jad Wauthier 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

I found this interesting. Maybe someone will find it helpful. https://opensource.com/life/15/8/accessibility-linux-blind-disabled -- Jad Wauthier | Problem Solver Phone: 512.290.3494 Fax: 512.367.5925 It's all in the perception.

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SQL clients for Windows
by Steve Matzura 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

I'm looking for an accessible Windows client that can talk to an SQL database to do not just database maintenance like supply your own SEQUEL commands on a command line, but create front-ends for users that either generate accessible Web pages or accessible data entry and retrieval screens. I'm also interested to know if anyone knows of a company called Cluen that makes their own proprietary front-end to a custom-created SQL database used for executive recruiting.

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PHP and secure Web access
by Steve Matzura 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

I have some rather deep PHP questions that I need answered in order to solve an implementation problem. If this isn't the right place to talk about PHP, even though I consider it a system administration function, I'd very much appreciate a good mailing list name to go to to post the following. I have spent the past three full days trying to learn and understand how to implement secure Web access using SSL on Apache 2.4.10. I got basic password-based authentication to work over port 80, but I'd like to take that a step further--use port 443, use SSL, and make that all-important "s" appear in the user's address bar. I have SSL certificates of all kinds--a certified and signed certificate for my Website, a private key of course, and the intermediate key from the certifying authority. These all work. I know they work because I am using them on my Dovecot+Postfix email system successfully. I could probably cite ten or more articles I've read, most from the Apache Software Foundation itself, on how to set this up, but nothing I'm doing is working, which means I must be missing some key thing. When I browse to my site on port 443 by using https, I get 403 forbidden and have no idea why. If anybody knows what the very basic things I should be doing are, I'd appreciate having that knowledge as well. I've tried so many variants of SSL directives and options, and nothing changes, which probably means the options and directives I'm using do not apply to my situation or need, but there must be some basic ones required to start with, and that's what I'm looking for. Again, if this is the wrong place to ask about detailed PHP stuff, a redirection to a place that is would be greatly appreciated, with my thanks in advance.

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