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bluetooth devices and pc's
by David Mehler 20 Nov '10

20 Nov '10

Hello, Does anyone use a bluetooth headset with a pc? I've got my machine to recognize the device, it's a motorola headset and xp, it's recognized, and paired. It's authorized to access the bluetooth audio service and i connect it up. The problem is I don't get audio from the device. Any suggestions? Thanks. Dave.

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New email lists for blind computer professionals
by John G. Heim 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

I would like to let everyone know that the International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists has two email lists for blind and visually impaired computer professionals. There is a talk list for discussing general and technical issues. To subscribe, send a message to talk-subscribe(a)iavit.org or point a browser to http://lists.iavit.org/listinfo.cgi/talk-iavit.org There is also an announce list for news about the International Association of Visually Impaired Technologis. To subscribe, send a message to announce-subscribe(a)iavit.org or point a browser to http://lists.iavit.org/listinfo.cgi/announce-iavit.org

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anyone use an irc client?
by David Mehler 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hello, Does anyone use a Windows IRc client? I've got Jfw 10 on my box and am needing to get in to an irc channel. I'm looking for a client that is accessible. Thanks. Dave.

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word 2010 and uploading web pages
by David Mehler 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hi, Got a question on word 2010, I know it can create web pages, can it also upload them via ftp or sftp preferred? Thanks. Dave.

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FW: Looking for a good managed security and backup tool.
by Andrew Hodgson 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Hi, This was sent to the bounce address. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Darragh OHeiligh [Darragh.OHeiligh(a)Oireachtas.ie] Sent: 26 October 2010 09:56 To: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: Looking for a good managed security and backup tool. Good morning, I have a few servers and desktops at home that I want to manage centrally for a number of reasons. I had heard a lot about forefront client security lately so thought I'd give that a shot during the weekend. To my surprise, it doesn't support the environment I had in mind for it at all! I had hoped to install it on a virtual machine running Windows 2008 R2, SQL 2008 R2 and with a WSUS server hosted on another machine. I gave the system a reasonable spec. It has a 120GB hard drive, 4GB of ram and two processors at 2.3GHZ. It really doesn't like my ideas. It's still complaining that it only has one processor, It says there isn't enough hard disk space, It still looks for a SQL database. Mainly because according to the release notes it only supports SQL 2005 and finally it wants it's own WSUS server. Why would it have this dependency when there's a perfectly fine WSUS server running on the domain? This is a virtual machine running on ESX 4. If forefront isn't the best option what is? I want to learn about a decent server managed security suite. In work I administer Office scan but I'd like to see what else is available. I'm reasonably certain anything is going to be better than office scan. I'm also looking for a decent backup system. In the past I've administered Backup exec and I know that works quite well but again, I'd like to try something different. I have a technet subscription so ideally, I'd really like to know the Microsoft solutions for these problems. Any thought's? Thanks Darragh

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Looking for a decent managed security and backup tool.
by Darragh OHeiligh 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Good morning, I have a few servers and desktops at home that I want to manage centrally for a number of reasons. I had heard a lot about forefront client security lately so thought I'd give that a shot during the weekend. To my surprise, it doesn't support the environment I had in mind for it at all! I had hoped to install it on a virtual machine running Windows 2008 R2, SQL 2008 R2 and with a WSUS server hosted on another machine. I gave the system a reasonable spec. It has a 120GB hard drive, 4GB of ram and two processors at 2.3GHZ. It really doesn't like my ideas. It's still complaining that it only has one processor, It says there isn't enough hard disk space, It still looks for a SQL database. Mainly because according to the release notes it only supports SQL 2005 and finally it wants it's own WSUS server. Why would it have this dependency when there's a perfectly fine WSUS server running on the domain? This is a virtual machine running on ESX 4. If forefront isn't the best option what is? I want to learn about a decent server managed security suite. In work I administer Office scan but I'd like to see what else is available. I'm reasonably certain anything is going to be better than office scan. I'm also looking for a decent backup system. In the past I've administered Backup exec and I know that works quite well but again, I'd like to try something different. I have a technet subscription so ideally, I'd really like to know the Microsoft solutions for these problems. Any thought's? Thanks Darragh Regards

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Looking for a decent managed security and backup tool.
by Darragh OHeiligh 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Good morning, I have a few servers and desktops at home that I want to manage centrally for a number of reasons. I had heard a lot about forefront client security lately so thought I'd give that a shot during the weekend. To my surprise, it doesn't support the environment I had in mind for it at all! I had hoped to install it on a virtual machine running Windows 2008 R2, SQL 2008 R2 and with a WSUS server hosted on another machine. I gave the system a reasonable spec. It has a 120GB hard drive, 4GB of ram and two processors at 2.3GHZ. It really doesn't like my ideas. It's still complaining that it only has one processor, It says there isn't enough hard disk space, It still looks for a SQL database. Mainly because according to the release notes it only supports SQL 2005 and finally it wants it's own WSUS server. Why would it have this dependency when there's a perfectly fine WSUS server running on the domain? This is a virtual machine running on ESX 4. If forefront isn't the best option what is? I want to learn about a decent server managed security suite. In work I administer Office scan but I'd like to see what else is available. I'm reasonably certain anything is going to be better than office scan. I'm also looking for a decent backup system. In the past I've administered Backup exec and I know that works quite well but again, I'd like to try something different. I have a technet subscription so ideally, I'd really like to know the Microsoft solutions for these problems. Any thought's? Thanks Darragh Regards

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FW: Looking for a good managed security and backup tool.
by Andrew Hodgson 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Hi, This was sent to the bounce address. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Darragh OHeiligh [Darragh.OHeiligh(a)Oireachtas.ie] Sent: 26 October 2010 09:56 To: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: Looking for a good managed security and backup tool. Good morning, I have a few servers and desktops at home that I want to manage centrally for a number of reasons. I had heard a lot about forefront client security lately so thought I'd give that a shot during the weekend. To my surprise, it doesn't support the environment I had in mind for it at all! I had hoped to install it on a virtual machine running Windows 2008 R2, SQL 2008 R2 and with a WSUS server hosted on another machine. I gave the system a reasonable spec. It has a 120GB hard drive, 4GB of ram and two processors at 2.3GHZ. It really doesn't like my ideas. It's still complaining that it only has one processor, It says there isn't enough hard disk space, It still looks for a SQL database. Mainly because according to the release notes it only supports SQL 2005 and finally it wants it's own WSUS server. Why would it have this dependency when there's a perfectly fine WSUS server running on the domain? This is a virtual machine running on ESX 4. If forefront isn't the best option what is? I want to learn about a decent server managed security suite. In work I administer Office scan but I'd like to see what else is available. I'm reasonably certain anything is going to be better than office scan. I'm also looking for a decent backup system. In the past I've administered Backup exec and I know that works quite well but again, I'd like to try something different. I have a technet subscription so ideally, I'd really like to know the Microsoft solutions for these problems. Any thought's? Thanks Darragh

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xp and bluetooth
by David Mehler 24 Oct '10

24 Oct '10

Hi, I've got a laptop with bluetooth. It's running xp. I'm trying to connect a bluetooth headset to it and the one time I got it to prompt me for a pairing password the dialog was gone in the systray before I could get to it. Has anyone got a way to get xp to get and pair to bluetooth headsets in the time needed? My one headset is made by Jabra never heard of that one, the other is a Motorola hs15. Thanks. Dave.

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mysql gui
by Billy L. Irwin 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Do any of you happen to know of a MySQL interface that works in high contrast mode such as windows colors? I've tried MySQL workbench and MyDB Studio and they suck! More and more of the applications are stuck in a color scheme mae by the developer and it gets quite annoying. Thanks in advance. Also, I don't want to use PHPmyAdmin. I need this to be local on my machine and connect to the server. Best Regards, Billy L. Irwin Irwin Solutions 207 Strange Ct. Spartanburg, SC 29301 P: 864-551-2501 Spartanburg/GSP Area C: 864-809-9620 Spartanburg, SC WB4BLI Emergency Coordinator - Spartanburg County Area 1 -2 SKYWARN / ADEC Area 2

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