Re: The zombie apocalypse has just started. Look to your left.
An old pillow my guide dog Kirk sleeps on and my bed. I suppose I could use the wooden slats from my bed but I'd have to throw off the matress first and if I needed a weapon right now that would just take too long, so I'm essent
Re: Computer power cycling loop issue
Mine was on for more than 30 seconds before I realised the fan was a problem, turns out the blades were stuck on the fan's power wire. Unfortunately since then I've found my processor temperature going up to the 70 degrees region just with light web bro
Re: Computer power cycling loop issue
Thanks for the suggestions but like I said it turns out it was the CPU fan. The system's not that old, it's an Ivybridge I7 so losing it now would hurt especially since money is really tight.Just as a note, no I can't see the bios info since I can't see
Re: Computer power cycling loop issue
I think I've figured it out, I was having issues with my CPU cooler. I only hope I caught it in time before it did any long term damage to my processor or motherboard.
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Re: Fan speed control help, anyone?
Don't forget you can also get hardware fan controllers, as well as some companies producing temperature controlled fans which come with their own temperature probe.
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Computer power cycling loop issue
I was wondering if anyone here has heard of such an issue. For a while now my self built desktop has on occasion rebooted around the point where I would anticipate the power on self test has just finished, but it started fine the second time. However just a
Computer power cycling loop issue
I was wondering if anyone here has heard of such an issue. For a while now my self built desktop has on occasion rebooted around the point where I would anticipate the power on self test has just finished, but it started fine the second time. However just a
Re: a really cool, neat way to get around
Some regions allow you to buy an iPhone directly from Apple, this iPhone would then be sim free and able to be used with any carrier and any service package you wish. That said without some kind of data connection Uber wouldn't work because it sends
Re: a really cool, neat way to get around
Uber does not use a telephone number. The terms on which you can get an iPhone depend on your region and what is available there, but the activation is necessary for all iOS devices and is no more complex than the usual set up questions you get on a
Re: a really cool, neat way to get around
Availability is limited, it wasn't available in my part of the UK either. It's also worth noting that the company has a bit of a reputation when it comes to privacy matters and seems somewhat boorish, they actually used data from their system once o
Re: new kickstarter project: smart 3D headset
I have no words to describe my reaction to your post K Jones, well done. I'm bewildered and amused in equal measure and that's a rare thing. If this topic were a competition you'd have definitely just won.
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Re: new kickstarter project: smart 3D headset
Complete immersion is a big ask, getting the resolution right while making sure the equipment doesn't distract you with its own weight or attachment method is really difficult. I have heard of attempts at gloves back in the late 90s but of cours
Re: online dating sites, and help please.
I agree. The goal of the first date is to get to know the other person, more expensive dates like big restaurant meals or concerts are more the kind of thing I'd do with someone I already knew and wanted to share the experience with.
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Re: new kickstarter project: smart 3D headset
It seems the only difference between this and my 5.1 roccat cave headset is the motion sensing, and the ability to use it with a mobile device. How it will fare at these prices I'm not sure, a lot of it depends on the audio quality and the quali
Re: I have a somewhat annoying problem with my comp
Oh so you mean it plays the logoff sound when you lock it, I thought you were trying to lock it after you logged off from your description.Bryant, there have been fingerprint readers for computers for years at least since the early XP days
Re: online dating sites, and help please.
I won't say these sites are all a scam because I know of people that have met their SO through a dating site, though I don't know these people well enough to ask details they're not the kind to make things up. What I will say is the chances are the
Re: I have a somewhat annoying problem with my comp
What operating system are you running? It doesn't sound like a standard Windows feature so if you are running Windows you may need to look to third party software you have installed. Also a bios password should only limit access to the bio
Re: I have a somewhat annoying problem with my comp
What operating system are you running? It doesn't sound like a standard Windows feature so if you are running Windows you may need to look to third party software you have installed. Also a bios password should only limit access to the bio
Re: online dating sites, and help please.
I agree about the profile picture but regarding not telling them straight away, that makes me rather uncomfortable. I'd say use your own best judgement.
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Re: I have a bluetooth issue.
If a wireless keyboard comes with its own dongle it's often but not always using its own radio system, your old wireless keyboard is probably one of these not a bluetooth one so that's why it may not be recognised as a bluetooth device.Are you pressing the Fn k
Re: online dating sites, and help please.
ccessible, I managed vaguely to use it via the iOS app but it was still a struggle, but after a year I hadn't really got anything out of it and gave up. The only advice I can give you is stop giving that same girl the chance to break up with you tim
Re: accessible touch screen cell phone suggestions
The reason blacklisting is not avoidable is it's implemented on the network's end, there's a list of phone IDs which all the carriers will block. This is something I've only heard about in relation to making stolen phones unusable, but it d
Re: Where to sell old equipment
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll see what I can do. I'm not greedy, though donating it to the RNIB would also cost me money to have it sent by courier because they don't have anywhere around me and the local institutions probably wouldn't know what it was muc
Re: Where to sell old equipment
Thanks. Truth be told I could use the cash as well, which is what prodded me into looking into selling them after sitting on them for a while. Lets just say there's some family stuff going on that means both me and my mother are going to be moving house, from
Where to sell old equipment
I have some old assistive equipment I'm looking to get rid of and I wondered if people had any advice about where to sell it in the UK? Thanks.
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Re: Some question about IOS
There's a rotor setting for languages. You make sure it's turned on in the voice over settings, then do the twist with two fingers until it announces language, then just flick up and down to choose your language. There are also rotor settings for rate and volume,
Re: Some question about IOS
I always found it a bit odd that Syri now gives you a choice of male or female yet VO doesn't, the voices are already there.
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Re: Some question about IOS
Also note wherever you've been told you can flick down to move through things you can also flick up to go the opposite direction.Touch typing is certainly worth a try but I'd avoid direct touch typing to begin with. I find standard typing very clunky and if I eve
Re: Some question about IOS
Item chooser is where you can type a few letters of something and it'll look through the screen for it. It's a bit like a combined headings/links/whatever list except it looks for the text at any point in the item, so for example if you type log it'll still find
Re: The top games of all time
Maybe this should be moved to the general game discussion rather than being in the off topic room?
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Re: meocloud
He meant in case of someone managing to hack the cloud service it's best to encrypt the files you're uploading.
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Re: extracting sounds from .dat files
Ethin, he never said it wouldn't be in a memory dump, he said it wouldn't be obvious. That's pretty much the same thing you said when you were trying to correct him, it'll be there but you're unlikely to ever find it.
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Re: Major Upgrade For Windows Users's On The Way, For "Free!"
The issue really is that most people on Windows use the major branded software packages, and these brands will likely be unwilling to share their profits with Microsoft via their app store. Like I said with iOS for good or ill th
Re: extracting sounds from .dat files
Or to put it more simply, .dat isn't a file format it's just an abbreviation for data. People come up with various different ways of storing various kinds of data, which can sometimes include sounds, in a single file for whatever reason and use .dat to
Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Given Murphy is constantly complaining about Dresden's attitude I'd say it's Dresden's issue, he even seems to allude to the fact that he knows it's a problem. It's probably a reference to the whole hard boiled detective who knows "women are trouble" but still c
Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Oh Harry Dresden can definitely be a bit annoying when it comes to women, though it's almost worth it for the ammunition it gives to Bob. Part of the fun of Harry is how colossally bad he is with people, heck in the first book he went to an official function hel
Re: Why do screen readers struggle to read math?
Also I never said don't ask, and I never said things are as easy as they should be. Beurocratic inertia and apathy are a problem just about everywhere you look when it comes to service provision. Part of my point was you have to expect at lea
Re: Blind friendly Unattended OS installation
That's why you put in a fake key then replace it in the XML file.
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Re: Major Upgrade For Windows Users's On The Way, For "Free!"
I think we might have ended up with this freebie year even if 8 hadn't been a dud, MS are losing market share and not all of it is down to the horrors of Vista and 8 though they were certainly large contributors. Apple's success
Re: Major Upgrade For Windows Users's On The Way, For "Free!"
Oh without doubt it's a gamble, but then it's got to the point that every new release of Windows is a roll of the dice.I think the hardware refresh issues are more related to the majority of users who wouldn't know how to upgrade
Re: My Dream Machine
180mm? Seriously? Holy crap.I have a general policy of never using fans included with a product, I always get my own because cooling isn't something I want to take lightly. I had a computer burn out on me once way back when because I relied on the fans included with my
Re: My Dream Machine
180mm? Seriously? Holy crap.
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Re: Why do screen readers struggle to read math?
Victorious, good to know. My experiences were admittedly around ten years ago and it was rather awkward to say the least. I ended up having to invent my own notation which I can't remember any of now.Camlorn, $10,000 is a lot when you need to
Re: Why do screen readers struggle to read math?
Victorious, good to know. My experiences were admittedly around ten years ago and it was rather awkward to say the least. I ended up having to invent my own notation which I can't remember any of now.
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Re: Why do screen readers struggle to read math?
Simple answer, the screen reader companies just haven't focussed on the problem.The more complex answer, as someone who took a unit in discrete maths, is that there doesn't seem to be any recognition of the more advanced symbology built into
Re: My Dream Machine
I'd definitely go with an SSD for the operating system at least, and a pair of 6TB spinning drives would still be overkill for most uses but would at least give you redundancy or extra speed depending on if you used raid 0 or 1.A zeon processor is impressive, though if
Re: Major Upgrade For Windows Users's On The Way, For "Free!"
Take a look at the home and student version of Office, it's for any non-commercial use pretty much so home use is fine. It's less expensive than the business version.You also won't need to worry about touch on a desktop unless yo
Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I certainly agree regarding Jiles, Xander and Willow. I think it might just be the utter mind numbing averageness of Buffy herself, though like you I do appreciate the lack of finesse or moral ambiguity in the way they deal with vampires. I suppose that's shared
Re: Ai Squared Statement on Security
I'm not sure asking for tips they can pass onto the proper authorities is exactly vigilante work, it's probably a lot easier and less intimidating for people to contact them than the authorities directly especially for people outside of the US. That said
Re: Blind friendly Unattended OS installation
It might be able to read the screen but it probably wouldn't tell you which option was selected or which control you were in. Screen readers do more than just dump the screen's text into a document for you to read.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.
Re: Major Upgrade For Windows Users's On The Way, For "Free!"
I think they're probably scared Windows 7 will become another Windows XP, I'm guessing adoption rates for newer versions of Windows haven't been very good. Still it's a bold move for Microsoft, not because it's a particularly inn
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
I don't think Apple have a monopoly on media player software so much as they have a near monopoly on digital music sales.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=201880#p201880
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Since I noticed Dark was working his way through Buffy it reminded me I never really watched it, having only caught a few odd episodes. So far I'm five episodes into the first series and a funny thing has happened, I'm feeling really, really flat about it. Has anyon
Re: you can use ms-dos and windows 3.1 again and forever!
Speaking from previous experience with dos games back when I was a mainstream gamer you not only needed to tell your game what model of sound card you were using, or at least what model it was compatible with, but also the hardware a
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
They have their moments. There are also incidents though like them forcing Microsoft to remove windows media player from Windows XP, and forcing Microsoft to set up a browser choice window the first time you try using the internet to ask what
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
MS aren't exactly saints but Google evil? Remember the wifi sniffing scandal? And the google books copyright scandal? And Google telling the German government to go screw itself when they tried declining the offer of the street view service?
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
MS aren't exactly saints but Google evil? Remember the wifi sniffing scandal? And the google books copyright scandal? And Google telling the German government to go screw itself when they tried declining the offer of the street view service?
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
MS aren't exactly saints but Google evil? Remember the wifi sniffing scandal? And the google books copyright scandal? And Google telling the German government to go screw itself when they tried declining the offer of the street view service?
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
MS aren't exactly saints but Google evil? Remember the wifi sniffing scandal? And the google books copyright scandal? And Google telling the German government to go screw itself when they tried declining the offer of the street view service?
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
MS aren't exactly saints but Google evil? Remember the wifi sniffing scandal? And the google books copyright scandal? And Google telling the German government to go screw itself when they tried declining the offer of the street view service?
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
MS aren't exactly saints but Google evil? Remember the wifi sniffing scandal? And the google books copyright scandal? And Google telling the German government to go screw itself when they tried declining the offer of the street view service?
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
I hate to hope but this could be the tiniest sign that Microshaft are learning, slowly very very slowly. Question is, will they learn quickly enough to save their bacon? They're not in the danger zone quite yet but they've certainly lost thei
Re: BBC application for PC: does it exist?
It may but you may have issues with speed, and if your VPN has a usage limit of some kind you may have issues with that.Like I said virtually all on demand services have location restrictions of some kind, for example I can't go onto the on demand
Re: you can use ms-dos and windows 3.1 again and forever!
Might be worth checking whether VMWare has any sound drivers included, sometimes you need to have VMWare install its own drivers onto the virtual machine for the virtual sound card it uses to work. At least I seem to think that's how
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
Oh god, not that crap. The interface changes are bad in the first place but I draw the line at metro.
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Re: Blind friendly Unattended OS installation
This information is useful regardless of what version of Windows you're currently using. The ability to reinstall a system without sighted assistance is something that is sorely lacking, unless you pay for expensive talking windows installer uti
Re: BBC application for PC: does it exist?
True, I forgot about that being in the UK myself. That said since all the US TV networks do the same thing to block people outside the US it's kind of inevitable, depending on where the OP lives they may be used to this already.
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Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
TIFKAM?Oh and I feel I should translate a few of those "computer wootery" terms as Dark likes to call them.You've probably heard vaguely of IP addresses, everything connected directly to the internet has to have one and that includes web site
Re: Blind friendly Unattended OS installation
Very interesting, this is something very important to us techies. Thanks for sharing it.
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Re: BBC application for PC: does it exist?
I had figured the same thing till I checked the site, in fact even in its day I felt WebbIE was kinda superfluous.
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Re: BBC application for PC: does it exist?
Looks like they're still available and being updated, the blog has an update post just from the last few days. webbie.org.uk is the address, iPlayer is the on demand service from the BBC so you'll have to pick the applications you want for either o
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
I had a long post but it got eaten so I'll just list a few things I find have improved with my newer system, I'm not sure they count as "modern conveniences" but there you go.Ten to fifteen second start up time, that's to the point where my s
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
Okay, first up Microsoft don't really wave the security bogeyman so much as they wave the new interface. Their entire marketing strategy is effectively look at the new shiny, which is stupid. In my case I simply got to the point where I felt
Re: Inspiration or Objectification
There are two sides to profitability of course, one side being risk aversion to focus on a guaranteed income. Where companies are risk averse in this way that makes it all the harder for us simply because they see us as a risk.
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Re: starting out with a guidedog.
That isn't how direct debit for electricity works, direct debit is if you are being billed in a post pay system where you receive a monthly or quarterly bill. Many rented properties instead of having the usual postpay meter have a prepay meter with credit,
Re: Inspiration or Objectification
Amusingly in reference to Dark's point London only got public sewers because the smell one summer reached the houses of parliament and all the MPs found it unbearable. Up until that point effluent literally ran in the streets, the roads were actually built
Re: Inspiration or Objectification
But is that quality of maternity leave caused by a desire for fairness or due to a cultural expectation that women should drop out of work in order to care for children? Sometimes you have to check these things, as they say correlation is not causation and
Re: starting out with a guidedog.
Bear in mind the limits on what you can physically carry, unless the taxi is also happy to let you unload your trolley into their boot and then unload their boot at your home. I personally order groceries online and find that the best solution for me but I'
Re: starting out with a guidedog.
You're the best person to make that decision for yourself, just don't rule it out for the future. I avoided getting a guide dog for a number of years in large part due to my lack of confidence in my ability to care for another living creature, though I did
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
First up VB6 is around 15 years old now, it's perfectly possible to upgrade software to newer versions of VB but many audio games have simply been left languishing without support and David Greenwood is frustratingly stubborn in his clinging
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
First up VB6 is around 15 years old now, it's perfectly possible to upgrade software to newer versions of VB but many audio games have simply been left languishing without support and David Greenwood is frustratingly stubborn in his clinging
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
It all depends on the software in question, the more complex the software the more likely it is to fail. XP isn't even built on DOS like 9X was, it emulates it like a poor man's dos box. As for things like VB6, in a sense I can see your point
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
It all depends on the software in question, the more complex the software the more likely it is to fail. XP isn't even built on DOS like 9X was, it emulates it like a poor man's dos box. As for things like VB6, in a sense I can see your point
Re: starting out with a guidedog.
Leaving the dog on their own seems to be something that varies from dog to dog and between trainers, I was specifically told it's a good idea to give them some practice just in case it ever becomes necessary.Some people do think of their dog as just a mobil
Re: starting out with a guidedog.
Ignore facebook, you should know better than to take criticism over the internet. Yes it's annoying and insulting but it's a case of, as one famous actor said, opinions are like assholes... and it goes double online.I was told it's good to let the dog pract
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
While I understand what you mean about security bogeymen my bigger issue with newer versions of Windows is they try to innovate too much and fail, they flat out reinvent the interface with every damn new edition. For me the best changes are o
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
I mostly use Syri for sending quick text messages, often when I'm just around the house so privacy isn't too much of a concern there, it's not something I'd want to write off completely.iCloud drive is a new feature in iOS 8 and yosemite whic
Re: Surviving something major like an EMP?
Ehh, horse manure may not have eaten the ozone but that isn't the primary issue with cars, it's CFCs and other chemicals that mostly eat the ozone. The issue with vehicles is greenhouse gases, primarily CO2 and methane, and livestock produce large
Re: A really good Dr. who related Youtube series
Trying not to laugh at the irony of Moffat trying to shove all the previous plot up a crack, something he would be better off doing with his current plots.I don't think we need to see the entire time war, though having the occasional glimpse
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
If the speaker is faulty on a 6 it should still be under warranty surely? It's inconvenient but at least you don't have to pay for it.As for my comments regarding trains and signals, it's specifically subway trains as in those which run mostl
Re: Surviving something major like an EMP?
I know people can garden and so on but we're talking about a city here, I don't see their being enough land to grow that quantity of crops simply because roads and buildings are on top of the land instead. Come to think of it parks would probably b
Re: A really good Dr. who related Youtube series
Well the problem with the huge battle is surely the Daleks would have bases somewhere? Where do they produce new Daleks, ships, supplies for both, and the resources to make all of those possible? Militarily speaking it is utterly implausible
Re: starting out with a guidedog.
A few differences in the UK to other places.Guide dogs pay for food and vet care, they have an account with the manufacturers and you just call up and order the food using your dog's serial number. That said as well as the six monthly checkn up it's a good
Re: Demons
I'll agree as well, or if you prefer you could always ask your therapist to take a quick look at your blog. One way or another it's important your therapist know about this so they can help you fully and I know admitting things face to face can be hellishly difficult, you feel li
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
My understanding, and this may of course be wrong, was that your card info is stored with Apple just like with the app store or iTunes store and the chip in the iPhone 6 simply identifies and authorises the merchant to take payment through Ap
Re: A really good Dr. who related Youtube series
Well like He Who Moans said, at this point the sheer number of false exits makes it feel like Moffat is just trolling us. When Clara finally goes I think a lot of people will simply say "about bloody time" thus robbing any potential impact th
Re: Surviving something major like an EMP?
I don't think the problem for survival would be computers so much as electrical transformers. As you already mentioned an EMP probably wouldn't hit the whole planet but if it were to it would take an absurdly long time to replace all of the major e
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
Dark, NFC not NSF is near field contact. It's basically an RFID chip standard, the same thing used in contactless payment cards and the like, I know my bus pass has it as well. Having it built into a phone can potentially allow the phone to i
Re: A really good Dr. who related Youtube series
I've one major complaint about the christmas special, spoiler warning ahead...Aaarrrgh, I thought we got rid of the bloody woman then yet again she's right back there as if nothing happened, bouncing in and out of the series like some kind of
Re: just got a Iphone6 plus, cases and questions
As someone with a 5S I can tell you the touch ID is very useful for quickly unlocking your phone, if you need to make a quick call or send a quick message or anything like that when you're out and about you don't need to fumble about entering
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