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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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portable ssh/sftp program?
by David Mehler 29 May '10

29 May '10

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.

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FreeNX
by David Mehler 24 May '10

24 May '10

Hello, Has anyone ever used from a windows client a program called FreeNX to access a linus server? I know about ssh, but just heard of FreeNX. Thanks. Dave.

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My first recording
by chris hallsworth 18 May '10

18 May '10

Hello all, I have made my first professional recording demonstrating a JAWS Tandem session, as part of my project. If you are interested, here is the link. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1625623/JAWS_Tandem_Demo.mp3 Enjoy. -- Mr Technician E-mail and Facebook: christopherh40(a)googlemail.com MSN: ch9675(a)hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://twitter.com/christopherh40

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My Project
by chris hallsworth 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hello all, I'm a university student, and I have finished all my coursework for my computing course. I am therefore writing to offer you a copy of my project report. As you will see the project is based on a technical support system I plan to set up in the future, using JAWS Tandem to remotely assist somebody in using a computer. If any of you would like a copy, please let me know off list, so I can possibly attach it or upload it somewhere. Note it's 23 pages in length, and it's in Microsoft Word 2007 format. I can, however, convert it if required. Thanks, and I look forward to any offers. From Chris -- Mr Technician E-mail and Facebook: christopherh40(a)googlemail.com MSN: ch9675(a)hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://twitter.com/christopherh40

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