Re: [Blind-sysadmins] does anyone else hate thetrendtowebGUIsinnetwork equipment?

Your sound card could take the SPDIF in and would only play the front 2 channels, you probably have an out for the center / back channels. If not you can do 2 speaker simulated surround or just listen to the front 2 which has all the audio anyway. Splicing introduces defects in the sound. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" To: "Blind sysadmins list" Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 5:03 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] does anyone else hate thetrendtowebGUIsinnetwork equipment? Maybe that might work, but my TV only has output for that connection as far as I know. If it's an optical signal, my sound card on the computer could take it, not sure what it will do if surround is coming out of the box and the other speaker jacks aren't being used on the computer, maybe a couple splitters to combine the front and rear jacks together. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Granados" To: "Blind sysadmins list" Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] does anyone else hate thetrend towebGUIsinnetwork equipment?

Do you have an SPDIF out that you can use?

If you do and you have a TV / receiver that decodes SPDIF digital you should be good because that's a straight digital stream.

I take a digital handoff from my dish receiver and drop it in to my receiver and the output is fantastic.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" To: "Blind sysadmins list" Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 2:25 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] does anyone else hate the trend towebGUIsinnetwork equipment?

Unfortunately, it's done at their site. I was looking for a workaround, and while I'd be at it if I could find a direct interface into it, to crank the maximum audio level it puts out because the TV won't go up any higher and the box is at maximum even with a brand new TV, so it's in the box or where they send it from, most likely. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Granados" To: "Blind sysadmins list" Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] does anyone else hate the trend toweb GUIsinnetwork equipment?

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So that's interesting? Which part of their device was accessible? Could you actually open a browser and control the set top box or were you dealing with a centrally hosted site from ATT that remotely provisioned your set top?

I have a receiver that has a web front end (which I actually like) but haven't seen that in many devices.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" To: "Blind sysadmins list" Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] does anyone else hate the trend to web GUIsinnetwork equipment?

Is there another way into the Uverse DVR boxes because they made their site totally inaccessible now for programming it when it used to be totally usable before. I practically came to depend on this for recording stuff on weekends or other times when I might not be around or listening to something online or whatever. If not, how hard is it to get a JFW script made so I can at least do the basics with it, set my shows to record, search for something, and delete old reruns that accumulate from doing series recording? Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg B." To: "'Blind sysadmins list'" Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] does anyone else hate the trend to web GUIsin network equipment?

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I don't think it is the fact that the equipment has a web based front end, the problem is JAVA. JAVA is one of those things that just doesn't want to cooperate with screen readers.

Greg B.

-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:48 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] does anyone else hate the trend to web GUIs in network equipment?

I'm a little disturbed by a trend in network hardware where everything has to have a web front end to configure. Even gear like the Cisco ASA has this

totally inaccessible java based ASDM thingy that sucks on a whole new level.

(even to sited users) What's happening to the command line? It's so much better and more efficient for working with network elements and frankly for servers.

Everyone tell your Cisco reps that this is a bad thing. (tm)

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