I love exploring things on my BN, but I shudder to think about
holding down keys with Reset that are not in the User Guide. I
have tried running most of the .exe's in /keysoft system
disk/windows (on my classic) and love looking at all the new
system files in that directory after an upgrade. All the tech
support people I ask, however, do not seem to know (or are not
allowed to say) the answers to many of my technical questions. I
just hate to take chances on a $6200 piece of equipment. I am
extremely glad that you and those like you are there to answer
tech questions that no one else knows (except for HW staff who
probably cannot say out of product security or something.)
Have a great day,
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Horspool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]
Date sent: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:13:36 -0000
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] KeySoft Bootloader
Hi,
Alex Parks wrote: "1. Is there any danger of corruption or other
software damage in this?"
Yes, but only if you're stupid... basically, if you decide to
upgrade your unit on 1% battery, you're going to currupt your
machine.
Similarly, if you decide to be really clever and take the card
out during the upgrade, you're in the same position.
"2. What sort of display?"
Any visual display will work, from what I can tell. The best
thing to do, though, is use Hyper Terminal - this can work with
screen
readers as it's running off a PC. There's a template available on
the HW website, somewhere in downloads - just run it and it'll
set
up your system.
"That would be neat to watch..."
No, it wouldn't. I thought the same, but it's useless to most -
it's just binary data, and Hyper Terminal tries to interpret it -
great fun, but no use.
"3. How do you know all this?"
The trick is to want to explore absolutely everything that
happens on your BN. It's hard to describe it in any other way...
when
you're next doing something that seems technical, like upgrading
your machine, analyse every step you take and see what questions
they pose. Then go and analyse the questions, try to answer
them, bug HW support...
HTH,
Matthew
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