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tails privacy usb distribution
by David Mehler 30 Aug '17

30 Aug '17

Hello, Is anyone using tails from a bootable usb stick? If so, does it have audio and will a screen reader work? Thanks. Dave.

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tails privacy usb distribution
by David Mehler 30 Aug '17

30 Aug '17

Hello, Is anyone using tails from a bootable usb stick? If so, does it have audio and will a screen reader work? Thanks. Dave.

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VMware tutorials
by luke scholey 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Hello Has anyone got any tutorials or advice on using VMware with NVDA? Thanks Luke

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setting up a VM
by Mike Fulton 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Hello, Has anyone had experience setting up a virtual machine? I am having trouble installing the operating system. Which VM software program do you recommend? I am taking a course that recommends Virtual Box, but I can use any program. I need to set up a VM that runs windows 10. Thank you, Mike

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setting up a VM
by Mike Fulton 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Hello, Has anyone had experience setting up a virtual machine? I am having trouble installing the operating system. Which VM software program do you recommend? I am taking a course that recommends Virtual Box, but I can use any program. I need to set up a VM that runs windows 10. Thank you, Mike

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Direct access Windows server 2016, anyone?
by Katherine M. Moss 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Hi all, Has anybody gotten this to work? I want to try; would love to get my group off of the free version of PulseSecure VPN since it's obvious that it's broken, and we don't have the networking skills to fix it, nor the money to buy a license. Plus I want to succeed in getting a native Windows complex technology working. Everyone has tried but me, and none can get it going. We have a setup where the DA server would be behind a NAT, not on the EDGE (except for the one in the datacenter, but all of the local internal networks would have their behind a NAT.) We would also have to avoid use of the Teredo protocol, considering we don't have multiple public IP addresses to play with. Any suggestions on a good configuration to connect a few sites? Thanks.

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repeaters
by David Mehler 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Hello, I'd like to get some advice from those who have set up home repeaters for wireless range increases. Currently I have two routers, my primary an Asus RT-N66U running Merlin firmware and a Linksys not sure running DD-WRT. I've also got a buffalo that I'm going to convert. I am wanting to set up the buffalo and the Linksys as repeaters. I am quite confused as to how to do this as my primary router is putting out three different SSID's, the main 2.4 GHZ, the primary 5 GHZ, and a guest network on 2.4 GHZ. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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repeaters
by David Mehler 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

Hello, I'd like to get some advice from those who have set up home repeaters for wireless range increases. Currently I have two routers, my primary an Asus RT-N66U running Merlin firmware and a Linksys not sure running DD-WRT. I've also got a buffalo that I'm going to convert. I am wanting to set up the buffalo and the Linksys as repeaters. I am quite confused as to how to do this as my primary router is putting out three different SSID's, the main 2.4 GHZ, the primary 5 GHZ, and a guest network on 2.4 GHZ. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Excel 2016 crashes, solved!
by Anatoliy Shudrya 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

Thank you everyone who responded to this. It was very frustrating when excel crashed on the admin workstation, especially after I did whole OS reinstall, applications reinstalling, configuring etc. Timothy, I don't think I will send the crash dump file now, I got it all fixed. Here is what happened: I have reinstalled my OS from manufacture recovery disks, installed JAWS, NVDA, and of course first stop to uninstall all manufacture bloatware. On the list was Ms. Office 2010, I have uninstalled it and proceeded with setup of office 365 ProPlus. This is where all crashes started. Oh, little did I know that I needed to use Microsoft easy fix to completely remove partially preinstalled Office 2010 by Lenovo. The uninstall from programs and features did not work at all, even when everything seemed to be uninstalled. Tonight, after a day off out of office. Remotely logged in, uninstalled office 365, rebooted machine, ran MicrosoftEasyFix50450 to remove all remnants of office 2010 partial preinstall, installed fresh office 365 and voila, excel works like a charm. I recall this have helped me multiple times already, when dealing between different versions of office; don't know why I could not think straight yesterday. One time in-place upgrade from office 365 2013 to office 365 2016 crashed my outlook, the other time installing office 365 2016 crashed end-user's excel because I didn't uninstall office 2010 beforehand. It seems like fresh copy of office, no matter what package cannot coexist with any older versions of office packages, at least in my observations/experiences. Kind Regards, Anatoliy -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Spaulding Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 7:21 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Excel 2016 crashes I did receive Anatoliy's data file, but I am unable to reproduce the crash. What I don't have is a Windows 7 environment with the current branch of Office 2016 O365. The closest I have is Windows 7 with the deferred branch of O365. For those that do have a lot of crashes, please share your Windows and Office versions. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Eigeldinger Simon Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 1:28 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Excel 2016 crashes Hi, Seems to work fine over here: Win 7 Pro 64 Bit Office 2016 Pro Plus 32 bit Microsoft Excel 2016 Version 16.0.4266.1001 Agreed, this copy hasn't been updated for a while. Greetings, Simon Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Eigeldinger Informatik Nebengebäude 1, OG1 ------------------------- Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems Österreich Tel.: +43 5576 7101-1143 Fax: +43 5576 7101-1149 E-Mail: simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at Web: www.hohenems.at Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Im Auftrag von Anatoliy Shudrya Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. August 2017 22:27 An: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Betreff: [Blind-sysadmins] Excel 2016 crashes Hi, Anybody experienced excel crashes with any kind of screen reader? I have Office 365 2016 32 bit on a fresh new OS, windows 7 professional 64 bit and excel just won't work no metter what. When I turn off JAWS, the spreadsheet works just fine, when I have either JAWS or NVDA or even Narrator on, the spreadsheet crashes. All other applications from office suite work perfectely fine, just excel acting up. Any tips or suggestions? Kind Regards, Anatoliy _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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multiboot USB thumb drive
by David Mehler 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

Hello, Is anyone using a thumb drive of sufficient size to boot multiple operating systems? For the purposes of this discussion i'm not talking USB2 or 3, just a big enough drive to load it, and then boot say two or three Linux versions? If so, does any of this speak from selection to the OS's? Thanks. Dave.

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