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ebay
by Ben Mustill-Rose 26 Jun '10

26 Jun '10

Hello all. I know this isn't exactly sys admin related but I'm posting it here since I'm guessing that some of you may have done this before and also because people on this list are very knoligeable. I'm getting tired of posting to other lists / forums where a topic gets hyjacked completely by someone who clearly can't help me with my question but still sees fit to ask something that could easily be googled. Anyway, rant over, here we go. I do a fair bit of selling on ebay - mainly hardware that I don't need anymore with the odd computer every now and again that I've made out of parts that I have. I'm wanting to become more active on ebay which has made me think a bit more about the look of my listings. In other words, I'm wanting to make my descriptions more ahem...pretty. At the moment, I write the description with a little bit of html for new lines and paragraphs but that's about all. I've been told that this looks unprofessional in comparison to other peoples descriptions and I'm worried that this will effect the price that my items sell for. I'm wondering how other blind people who list on ebay make there auctions look visually appealing? For a computer for example, I usually have a quick spec at the top, then a bunch of stuff about why people should buy from me instead of someone else, then a couple of suggested uses for the box along with a more extencive spec. At the bottom I have all my terms. Is there a program or website that has some templates where I can copy & paste all the stuff in that will make my descriptions look better than they do at the moment? Again, I'm sorry for bringing this question to the list, but I've consistantly got really helpfull answers from people on here when I've had questions. Any pointers at all would be very welcome. Chears, Ben.

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I.t. Professionals
by Sean Murphy 26 Jun '10

26 Jun '10

All. I am seeking for people in any country who are I.T professionals or wish to join the ranks to get in contact with myself. The goal here is to establish a network of people to identify common barriers and how we can help others to get into the I.t. industry or advance in their current career. Such as barriers in certifications. Access to books. Employer programs to employ disable people. Development of resources outlining accessibility of products. Etc. This is not focusing on the Blind but all disable people. In the world wide networking industry, the large networking vendors/providers relise there is a shortage of people with talent in this area. If this is the case here, then where else in I.t. So at this stage I am collecting resource material, contacts from other disability groups and names to bounce ideas off. To try and get more disable people employed. Sean

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gdm3 startup sound
by John G. Heim 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

Anybody know how to make gdm3 make some kind of sound when it starts? Previous versions of gdm would beep when the login sscreen appeared. YYou could also make it play a sound file like the ubuntu drums when gdm started up. But I configured gdm3 the same way as I did my previous gdm version and it won't play the sound file. You used to be able to get it to play a sound file by editing /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and adding these lines to the [greeter] section: SoundOnLogin=true SoundOnLoginFile=/etc/gdm/welcome.wav

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unformat partation?
by Ibraam Wahib 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

hello my friends: I'm in a great problem, I've computer office, we put all data on a hard disk, and we not take back-up from some times, after restore windows from ghost on C partition, D )all data( become unreadable, each time click give me format the disk yes/no... even on dos not read it. please which tool can I use to not format fix file system or at least copy data to another disk.. its sata hard disk D size is 100 gb.. please help me as quick as possible.. thanks very much.. ibraam

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let's talk Backup Exec
by Ryan Shugart 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Hey everyone: I just got a promotion at work, and with the goodness of a promotion comes more responsibilities. I'm now in charge of our backup infrastructure. We run Backup Exec 12.5, and have 16 or so media servers in various branch offices around the world. While Backup Exec used to be very accessible, over the last two versions accessibility seems to have gone into something of a decline, I already use scripts just to read the main table of jobs, and might need more just to get around the scheduling window so I can actually schedule a job. I'd consider the rest of the program accessible but clunky, tabbing doesn't always bring you where you think it will, on some screens tab order seems to be dynamic. Backup Exec also has an odd way of bringing up alert windows and grabbing your focus, even when you tell it specifically not to. While clunkyness is OK on one server, when you have fifteen individual servers to manage and no way to do it in a centralized fashion clunkyness is less acceptable. This is also less than a quarter of my new responsibilities as well. The current admin has the remote desktop console setup with all the Backup Exec servers in his favorites, stays logged into each server with a Backup Exec window open, and flicks from screen to screen and can easily glance at the output from each job. For us screen reader users, that doesn't work well. I've already got e-mail alerts set up and am using some Outlook rules to sort failure jobs out from successes, but was wondering if there's anything else I can be doing? I'd think people in really large environments with hundreds of media servers aren't logging into each server on a daily basis, so there has to be better ways to handle this. Any ideas? Thanks. Ryan

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Reminder: Coming Up on Main Menu in a Little Under 9 Hours - CAPTCHA!
by Darrell Shandrow 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hello Everyone, This announcement represents a friendly reminder for all of you to listen to an important, two hour live Main Menu coming right up later today. Coming up on an exciting two hour live program, we hear from a panel of technology industry experts all about CAPTCHA (visual verification) and other forms of visual authentication, accessibility challenges to existing visual verification systems, the balance between human rights and security, existing solutions for providing reasonable accomodations to visual authentication and emerging accessibility solutions. We are proud to introduce an impressive panel of experts and their primary areas of focus: * Matt May from the Adobe Systems Accessibility Team will discuss his 2005 W3C note on the inaccessibility of CAPTCHA. * Luis von Ahn from ReCAPTCHA at Carnegie Mellon University will describe their accessible solution. * Steve Dispensa from PhoneFactor will tell us all about an innovative, telephone based two-factor authentication system. The accessibility of CAPTCHA (visual verification schemes on the web) and other similar forms of visual authentication is a topic of utmost importance to the blind, visually impaired and others with print reading disabilities. Real, universally accessible solutions are going to require significant amounts of effort, good will and out-of-the-box thinking. We encourage active participation by the blind community, members on all sides of the issue from the mainstream technology industry and those sighted people who care about what happens to us. Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333. You may email your questions to: mainmenu(a)acbradio.org You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu(a)acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe(a)googlegroups.com Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu Main Menu Live - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_… Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow The Main Menu Production Team

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Problems with ping on win7
by Mario Percinic 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Hello there. I need some help with solving the problem with ping on my win 7 machine at home. I just found out that by default ping doesn't work on win7 and that windows firewall has to be reconfigured by creating new rule which would accept icmp. I created new rule with the following settings: rule type, custom, allowed connection yes, access from and to any ip address yes, under protocol tipe i selected icmpv4 and under settings, i selected specific icmp tipes, where i checked the box which says, echo requests. However after applying the rule , nothing changed and ping can not be acomplished successfully. Oh btw, the machine goes out thru thompson 780 w router, with its firewall turned off. any suggestions? Mario Percinic ICT specialist for accessible technology mail/googletalk/msn: mario.percinic(a)gmail.com skype: acousticman GSM: +385922630259

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Zoomtext on W2k3?
by Denning John W 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Anyone know how to install Zoomtext 9.1 on Windows 2K3 Server? I've seen it done, and believe the person doing it had to enter a command line switch when running the installer. Need it for a class. John Denning -JD- System Administrator EOPS-ECC-T2WB-SS-PM TOD 6:00-14:30 A+ MCP MCSA MCSE ITIL 404-788-2780 mobile 770-455-2033 desk

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Zoomtext on W2k3?
by Denning John W 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Anyone know how to install Zoomtext 9.1 on Windows 2K3 Server? I've seen it done, and believe the person doing it had to enter a command line switch when running the installer. Need it for a class. John Denning -JD- System Administrator EOPS-ECC-T2WB-SS-PM TOD 6:00-14:30 A+ MCP MCSA MCSE ITIL 404-788-2780 mobile 770-455-2033 desk

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] portable ssh/sftp program?
by John G. Heim 31 May '10

31 May '10

I have openssh installed on a thumb drive. It works with both jaws and nvda. I have nvda on the same thumb drive so I don't need to install anything on a borrowed computer if I need to do some work. -----Original Message----- .From: "David Mehler"<dave.mehler(a)gmail.com> .Sent: 5/28/10 7:19:11 PM .To: "blind-sysadmins"<blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> .Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] portable ssh/sftp program? . .Hello, .I'm going to be taking a trip this holiday weekend. I'd like to do .some web development and testing while i'm gone. I'm wondering if .anyone knows of a portable/accessible ssh/sftp client so i can send .files to my test server and/or edit them on the server? I'm also .looking for a notetab like editor or other portable editor something .with a little more kick than standard windows notepad. The box these .apps will be running on is running xp and has jaws on it although i'm .wanting to try system access, is there a demo of it i've heard it's .remote features are quite good? .Any help appreciated. .Thanks. .Dave. . ._______________________________________________ .Blind-sysadmins mailing list .Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org .http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins .

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