Re: How to drag and drop languages in ubuntu?
@Fatih, your question makes absolutely no sense. Can you try and explain your question better?
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015
Dark, that is truly sad to hear that the Peanuts cartoons never took off in the UK. I loved those cartoons as a kid, and I still do.Basically, they started out as a comic strip in the Sunday paper and in the 60s they then began making them into animated
Re: Monthly chat August 2015
Well, I have certainly had a fairly busy last few days. Fortunately, it is mostly good news for a change.Last Thursday I went to see my doctor for a checkup. The good news is my urinary tract is now free of infection, but I am still dealing with a couple of
Re: Monthly chat August 2015
Well, I for one been having a very busy month this month. I dont look for things to slow down for a while so I doubt gamers will be seeing me doing much posting on the forum or Audyssey List.To begin with last Saturday, August 1, we had a small birthday party
Re: all about food!
Thunderfist799, if you mean lasagna, spelled l a s a g n a, I love it. I generally love Italian dishes, but good lasagna is definitely one of my favorites. I always have loved the way my mom makes it, but as we live far a part I never get to eat her lasagna any more. So
Re: all about food!
@Dark, your explanation does make sense. Although, I cant help but find it a bit irrational from my point of view. I certainly dont mind warming up left over pizza and have even eaten it cold on occasion. Obviously, since I dont find it gross I dont mind buying more
Re: What do people believe when it comes to religion and or spirituality?
Well, even though I come at this from a scientific viewpoint I do not in fact believe that science can disprove the existence of God any more than Christians can prove the existence of God. I just do not think the
Re: all about food!
As far as food goes Im a typical American. By that I mean I am a junk food junky. I love hamburgers, chili dogs, chicken filet sandwiches, pizza, you name it I probably love it. Of course, it is all not good for me from a health perspective, but Im of the sneaking
Re: Monthly chat July 2015
@Dark, traveling by train does sound nice. Unfortunately, here in the US most of the passenger train services have gone the way of the dinosaur. Once Americans got use to owning and driving their own cars a lot of forms of public transportation such as passenger
Re: Monthly chat July 2015
Well, in my personal case I have been busy. Mostly with doctor appointments. I have been going to see a specialist who wants to run some tests on my face and jaw to see why my mouth wont open, and he suspects the problem is neuromuscular in nature so will be
Re: What do people believe when it comes to religion and or spirituality?
@Zakc93, when I was going through my transition from Christianity to non-theism I found myself asking the same kinds of questions. I did actually go out and try to find answers for them, and here is the conclusions I
Re: What do people believe when it comes to religion and or spirituality?
@Nocturnus, while I find your discussion of ultimate morality to be interesting it is my personal view that all morality is dictated by rationality. Since I do not believe morality comes from a god or supernatural
Re: Monthly chat July 2015
@Dark, I think your description of potato wedges is closest in concept to our joes. As I mentioned above joes are basically a potato cut into 6 to 8 equally sized wedges, and then are covered in seasoning and fried in a deep friar. They dont necessarily come with
Re: Schools and universities in the USA for foreign students
I actually visited or looked at several universities before deciding. I ended up going to Wright State University in Dayton Ohio for my computer science courses.
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Re: What do people believe when it comes to religion and or spirituality?
@Bladestorm360, weather or not you personally accept the scientific definition of a theory is beside the point I was trying to make. To clarify the point I was making is you shouldnt equivocate the laymans definition
Re: Schools and universities in the USA for foreign students
If you are looking for a college or university within the united states that is both equipped for a foreign student and is equipped for a blind student you may want to look at one of the state colleges or universities. All the
Re: Monthly chat July 2015
@Dark, jo-joes are essentially great big fries. Basically, what they are is someone takes a potato, cuts it into six to eight evenly sized pieces, and then fries them in a deep friar. Thus you end up with something sort of like a fry but much much bigger. They
Re: Accessible email client
@GeneWarner, my personal recommendation would be Mozzilla Thunderbird. I personally find it a decent mail client, and of course it is 100% free software. As far as I know it is fairly accessible with all the major screen readers out there although I only really
Re: What do people believe when it comes to religion and or spirituality?
@Bladestorm, having grown up a Christian I can certainly understand your point of view even though I no longer agree with it in principle.One thing that bothers me about your argument is the way in which you define
Re: What do people believe when it comes to religion and or spirituality?
@Thunderfist799: in post 50 you did exactly what I thought you would do, and unfortunately I think it illustrates one of the principle problems between believers and non-believers. As a skeptic, someone of a
Re: Owning a dog - Is it a good idea?
Hadi, I am assuming by your message you are talking about a pet dog not a service animal. If so having one in your situation could be a little challenging.For one thing most apartments I have ever lived in have pet ownership rules and regulations and
Re: What is highschool like for a blind person, at a public school
Speaking for myself switching to a non-specialized school, going to a public school, was probably the best decision I ever made. That said, I had a lot of help during that transition which you may or may not have, but it
Re: greedom science fiction, what did I just agree to?
Well, while I am personally appalled about Freedom Scientifics end user license agreement I also realize that most of us have a freedom of choice. Today there are a number of alternatives including: NVDA, Window-Eyes, System Access,
Re: Distancing myself from the blind community
Ghost Rider, while I do get what you are saying I also think you are letting a few bad apples spoil your opinion of what is a fairly decent community in the main. The reason I say that is I have been on the web for close to twenty years, and
Re: Owning a dog - Is it a good idea?
Hadi, Ill try and answer your questions as best as I can. To be honest some of those are tough to answer given that dogs arent well liked in your country, and you dont have the same services and resources there as I would here.As for training Im not
Re: Monthly chat July 2015
Well, as for me I have a pretty full schedule ahead. July is of course right smack in the middle of summer vacation here in the States, and that is also when there is a lot of things to do.For example, last Saturday was our 4th of July holiday. I basically spent
Re: What do people believe when it comes to religion and or spirituality?
Many of you are aware that I grew up in a Christian home, was Christian for the first 25 years of my life or so, but have since become much more agnostic towards the belief in a god or higher power. It is not so much
Re: Very disappointed by some people
@Afrim, I get the feeling it is one of those things we will have to agree to disagree about. My personal view is that people who claim to be religious often do more harm in the name of their religion than non-religious people. The reason is because
Re: Very disappointed by some people
@Afrim, I find myself in total agreement with Trajectory. Contrary to what you may believe about religion it has been the most decisive and leading cause of hatred and war throughout the ages. In Europe the Catholics use to hunt down anyone they
Re: Monthly chat June 2015
@Dark, yeah, I have been wanting to comment on the Star Trek Races topic, but have not as yet found the time to comment on it. The way my schedule has been Im either too busy to write a very long message, or I have the time but am physically too tired to write
Re: Very disappointed by some people
[ a-t ]Afrim, allow me to amend my comments above by pointing out my comments were not meant to say that all Muslims were like that , nor did I intend to imply all Catholics etc were complicit in what their more extremist members does. The problem with
Re: SAPI voices for 32 bit Windows 7
Well, the best place to buy SAPI voices from is Nextup. Next up has a lot of voices from ATT, Cepstral, and Nuance. Get them athttp://www.nextup.comas well as their useful tools like Weatheraloud, Textaloud, and Newsaloud.You may also be interested in
Re: Monthly chat June 2015
Well, as for myself one reason I have not been too active on the forum of late as well as add to this thread is the month of June has been extremely busy for me personally. It seems like I have been on the go non-stop and there is no end in sight.To begin with I
Re: Hello!
Hi Gene,Welcome to the forum. Always nice to see new people on here from time to time. Hope you will enjoy this forum as much as the rest of us do.
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Re: Very disappointed by some people
I am very sorry to hear about the situation with that girl, but as others have said Im not at all surprised. In a society where blindness is looked upon as something to be disdained sometimes pitied it is not at all surprising that immature juveniles
Re: What about Kpop or Jpop?
Cant really say I have an opinion since I have never heard either one of those before. I live in the USA and while I listen to pop music now and then the majority of it is American pop music. J-pop and K-pop dont have much of a following here and I dont know of
Re: Bathroom appliaces for blind/VI users
@Dark, Cinnamon is right. Automatic flush toilets are becoming quite common in the USA. Particularly when a brand new store or restaurant is constructed because they seem to equip their rest rooms with automatic flushing toilets, automatic sinks,
Re: Opening ports on a comcast modem?
@Staindaddict, in most cases I can think of an easier way to access your modems router page. Open up Firefox or Internet Explorer and in the addressbar typehttp://routerand hit enter. With luck it will open up your router settings in a nice accessible
Re: Bathroom appliaces for blind/VI users
@Dark, there arent any Frankie and Bennys diners here in the US. I hadnt even heard of that restaurant until you mentioned it. Never-the-less I looked it up on my friend Wikipedia and discovered it seems to be a UK only based chain with a 50s
Re: Bathroom appliaces for blind/VI users
@CW, I know exactly what you mean about the automatically flushing toilets etc. I hate not knowing weather the toilet needs to be manually flushed or not. There have been plenty of times where I am reaching around looking for the flush handle when
Re: Any advice on cane problems?
Trajectory, I honestly dont know what to say other than I find your situation extremely unusual. I have had a number of folding canes over the years and most of them have lasted at least two sometimes three years before having to be replaced. Most of the
Re: Bathroom appliaces for blind/VI users
@Dark, actually having a shaving cream or shaving lotion slot would not be male specific. You are forgetting that many women shave their legs, armpits, etc so have their own razors and shaving creams too. So women do shave but shave other parts of
Re: Bathroom appliaces for blind/VI users
Hmm..Ive been trying to think of something that would fit the requirements and something that occurs to me is a type of shower caddy with braille labels on it with individual slots for shampoo, body wash, conditioner, etc. For those who dont know
Re: Question about Malwarebytes
@Dark, to answer your question specifically about Malwarebytes no it does not do antivirus. It is mainly a tool for finding and removing spyware, adware, and other non-virus forms of malware. So for that reason I would highly recommend it in addition to any
Re: Monthly chat May 2015
@Dark, regarding She-Ra there is no big mystery as to why the dolls were marketed as part of their Barbie line. In the mid 80s He-Man was extremely popular with boys and Mattel wanted to launch a line of similar action figures for girls. Therefore they
Re: Monthly chat May 2015
@Dark, I am also a fan of the original Transformers. As you said the plot and action ratio was well done for an animated series and wasnt over done. While the storylines werent necessarily the best it worked. I really enjoyed the series as a whole as a kid, and
Re: to blind new agers
@Afrim, I do take your point, and agree that archeology isnt perfect. It is an imperfect science a lot of it is based on guesswork as much as physical evidence, and yes you are right that some archeologists do tend to ignore, skip, and even hide evidence that doesnt
Re: to blind new agers
@Steve, as to your point about the main reason for atheism I dont think it is just Christians that push people away from their faith. The bible itself has a lot to do with pushing people away from the faith. That is, in fact, the main reason I converted to atheism
Re: Monthly chat May 2015
Dark, unfortunately, good solid character development doesnt seem to matter any more to a lot of todays film producers. Even franchises like Transformers and Star Trek who had well defined characters are sadly suffering from this lack of characterization. I know
Re: to blind new agers
@Blindncool, you certainly raise some interesting questions in your post, but I think it must be pointed out that you make some assumptions which may or may not be true.In your first question you ask, if we are all god why do people act so badly? My problem with that
Re: help installing gnome shell on vinux 3
@Blindncool, thats strange. Although, I dont run my Linux installs through VMWare Player I wonder if you might be able to get sound to work for an up to date version of Ubuntu Gnome. Said reason being is that Ubuntu Gnome comes with a fairly
Re: Accessible hit counter for websites
Well, accessible hit counters can be found just about anywhere that sells or offers web scripts for free. What scripting language are you looking for? Are you looking for a hit counter written in ASP, _javascript_, PHP, or Perl?
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Re: Monthly chat May 2015
@Dark, I do agree that Bruce Banner could be a much nicer person when he is not the Hulk, but that of course would undermine the storyline. It is Bruces anger, rage, feelings of inadequacy, etc that fuels the change from human to Hulk. Getting rid of those
Re: help installing gnome shell on vinux 3
@Blindncool, as far as I know there is no way to install gnome-shell, certainly not the latest, on Vinux 3.0. For that I would strongly recommend upgrading to Vinux 4, or even better one of the betas of Vinux 5. Is there any particular reason why
Re: Monthly chat May 2015
Well, as for me the month of May is certainly off to a good start. For one thing it is finally beginning to warm up in Ohio, and we are no longer dealing with the effects of the cold we had this past winter. The last couple of days it has gotten up into the 70s,
Re: Monthly chat May 2015
@Dark, Steve Berry writes action thrillers. Most of them have some historical angle that has major bearing on today and involves the Magellan Billet which is supposed to be a top secret intelligence group for the U.S. Justice Department. I personally like them
Re: Monthly chat May 2015
@Dark, I do see where you are getting at. For the most part I agree with you that a lot of books are biased and since they are written by a person of a certain country he naturally props his or her country up as the good guys and assumes his or her readers
Re: A Modern Day Comparison of JAWS and NVDA
I have been using NVDA full time for the last three years, and I personally see no reason to switch back to Jaws or Window-Eyes. I find NVDA is adequate for everything I do from reading e-mail, to browsing the web, to working on office
Re: Ripping An Audio Book?
@Guitarman, you can do this with Goldwave. In the CD Reader rather than selecting the tracks to rip you need to specify a time range, in this case the entire CD, in order for Goldwave to rip it as one track. Not sure if you used Goldwaves time range settings in
Re: Ubuntu
@Diego, are you sure your wi-fi is on and working? Reason I ask is all of your connections should be in the connections menu below those other options.
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Re: Something I found
Just listened to the clip, and I for one did not find it a bit amusing. To me it was very childish, immature, and cant figure out why in the world anyone else would find it funny. If it were me Id be taking it off the forum as I honestly dont think something like that
Re: Ubuntu
Diego, assuming you are on the Unity desktop press alt+f10 to get to the top panel. Arrow over to the network connections menu, and arrow down to the network connections listed in that menu. Once you find the one you want press enter on it and hopefully it will connect.
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Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
Well, as for myself. Currently I am upgrading an older Averetec 6240, restoring it to working order, because although it is old it is a good multimedia laptop.One of the particular features I love about the Averetec 6240 is that it was designed to be a portable
Re: Visit in massachusetts
Viktor, regarding shopping in the USA certainly you can ask a store employee to help you do your shopping. The way to do it is to go to the customer service counter, those are usually located somewhere near the front of the store, and a customer service employee
Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
@Afrim, university can be a very good experience so if I were you not to write it off as potentially being dull, boring, or unexciting. Believe it or not there are many things about university that are better than high school, or at least I felt so.For one thing
Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
@Afrim, I agree with you about high school. I think high school was the best years of my school years because there were a lot more things to get involved in such as clubs, dances, football games, and other sports so it was a really fun and enjoyable time for
Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
Yeah, being blind can be a real bastard sometimes. In fact, a lot of the time, but it happens to be the hand we have been dealt. So have to deal with it the best way that we can.What Im finding difficult is that I am slowly going deaf, am now having serious
Re: What do you think of a game console for the blind?
Ishan, I happen to disagree. It wouldnt take millions of dollars to develop a gaming console for the blind. One could probably crowd fund the entire thing and do it on a fraction of that cost. A lot would depend on how many people are
Re: What do you think of a game console for the blind?
Ethin, there is absolutely no way you would ever need 24 GB of ram for a Linux OS. I should know because I have a number of machines that run on a lot less. I have a system with only 1 GB that boots up fast enough with a full Gnome
Re: Are these kind of behaviours weird and/or childish?
All of the Harry Potter movies have been described. Unfortunately, due to copyright it would be illegal to share them with you guys here unless Dark or someone was willing to look the other way. That said, I agree with Dark about the
Re: building linux programs with Cygwin
Well, I dont know how much experience you have had with building software from scratch so depending on your skill level it could be complex or fairly easy. However, since I dont know what skill level you are at Ill start by giving you an outline of
Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
@Dark, as far as Hardees goes it is a fast food chain. Actually there are multiple chains owned by the same company Carls Junior, Hardees, and Red Wheel and they all basically sell the same type of food. They have cheese burgers, chicken sandwiches, ham
Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
@Dark, yeah, having any kind of medical condition is a major drag. Im glad you are feeling much better. I know I am beginning to which has made all the difference.As for myself today I took my son to see the new Movie Home and then we stopped off at Hardees for
Re: Monthly Chat april 2015
As for myself April is going well. I was out of town a couple of days ago doing a bit of shopping with my family when I found the entire series of Lois and Clark on sale which I purchased. So for a lot of this month I have a feeling Ill be spending plenty of
Re: Ubuntu
Gellman, all stages of the Ubuntu-Mate installation were accessible. However, when the login comes up I have to launch Orca separately. I want to say it is the alt+super+s keyboard command. In any case Orca didnt come up by default, but could be launched with a quick and easy
Re: native sinthesizers?
Chandu, making a synthesizer is no trivial matter. Not only would you have to be a fairly skilled programmer you have to under stand some specifics of language synthesis and so forth. So to be direct it is possible to create your own synthesizer but not something
Re: Ubuntu
Diego, at this point in time Gnome is the more accessible graphical environment for an Orca user. Preferably Gnome 3.14, but Gnome 3.12, which I think ships with the current version of Ubuntu-Gnome, is more than functionally accessible for an average user.Gellman, on the
Re: Ubuntu
Diego, to change the default language you have to logout to the login screen, and activate Orca. Then select the default language and desktop you want the login to use.As for the subject of knowing which you are using, Unity or Gnome, I guess one way to know is by checking the
Re: What do you think of a game console for the blind?
Okay, I have a number of comments on this subject so Ill try and address as many as I have time to address at the moment.First, as for the issue of panning sounds on Linux it is absolutely possible. It all depends on what programming
Re: online dating sites, and help please.
Guitarman, Ill assume by your comments in your post that you are young and still in school. Let me just say finding and meeting people gets harder and harder the older a person gets. Once a person is out of school, not in college, or any place
Re: Let's Discuss Everything About Star Trek
Well, as for myself I have always been a very big Star Trek fan. Although, since Voyager ended and they destroyed Data in Nemesis my interest has waned somewhat. The last two films all but ended my interest in Star Trek as a series, because they
Re: the Scan Soft Tom TTS Voice?
Steve, first of all the voice in question is no longer called Scansoft Tom. Since Scansoft was acquired by Nuance all of the Scansoft voices have been renamed to Vocalizer. There for the voice in question you are looking for is now called Vocalizer Tom not
Re: Ubuntu
Danny, you are correct about prior versions of Ubuntu having an accessible version of the Dash in Unity. The problem is a couple years ago they decided to rewrite Unity, create a newer 3d version of it using different toolkits etc, and the end result is a bunch of accessibility
Re: Ubuntu
Diego, you havent stated what desktop environment you are running so I am going to assume here you are running the stock Unity desktop. Unfortunately Unity isnt fully accessible at this point in time and you might be better off using a Gnome or Mate remix of Ubuntu. In any case
Re: is there any way to play guitar on my computer and to record it?
petrastavreva, yes, it is quite possible. Depending on what sort of gear and software you have it is pretty easy to setup. Usually you will want to have a mono to stereo converter jack that you can plug your guitar amp
Re: online dating sites, and help please.
Dark, Im not sure what your experience with online dating sites has been, but your perspective seems to be unrealistic from my experience. Sure, there may be some disreputable online dating sites that create false profiles to boost traffic and to
Re: accessibility of sound forge for windows
[ a-t ]simba, yes, Soundforge is available for Windows. As a matter of fact there are two different versions for Windows. There is the pro version and there is a less expensive consumer version. In any case accessibility depends on what screen
Re: Life After A breakup
Well, as many of you may already know I have recently gone through a divorce, the hardest breakup of my adult life so far, but I agree with the other points above. Moving on is the only thing a person can do in situations like that. It does nobody any good to spend
Re: lets erge microsoft to develop a fully functional screen reader!
Id like to echo Ghorthalons comments. Narrator for Windows 10 isnt anything spectacular, but it is certainly functional. I have used the test preview with various apps including Firefox, Thunderbird, MS Office, and it
Re: Linux and other questions
As far as copying files to a directory you dont have permission to access you have a couple of options. The first option is to launch your file manager using gksudo and then youll have root access to your entire drive. The other option is to open a terminal
Re: Monthly chat January 2015
Well, as for myself there are a few things on the agenda for this month.The first is I have decided to think more positively. Im tired of feeling sad, lonely, upset, and just angry after my divorce so Ive elected to change my attitude. To think happy thoughts,
Re: My costumed vigilante's hero card
Dark, that is certainly an interesting perspective on the superhero genre, but killing off the hero or changing them over the course of a movie or two is akin to killing the golden goose. I believe what makes some of these long running series so
Re: My costumed vigilante's hero card
Ghost Rider, Im all for good action movies, plenty of fighting, lots of action, etc but unfortunately that is all they seem to have going for them. They often miss out on good character development, good story writing, and focus exclusively on the
Re: My costumed vigilante's hero card
Dark, fair enough. I merely was trying to think of a possible reason why the superhero genre is the way it is. However, upon reflection I think CAEs point about wish fulfillment makes the most sense.When I look back at my childhood I loved superhero
Re: My costumed vigilante's hero card
Ghost Rider, I find myself agreeing a lot with Darks post above. Not only is Stygian a fairly close likeness to Batman I cant find any obvious vulnerabilities or weaknesses in his character mentally or physically. Its a common enough problem in the
Re: My costumed vigilante's hero card
Dark, I would hazard a guess one reason a lot of the superhero comics, cartoons, and movies arent fleshed out more then they are is because they are mainly targeted at children and young adults. Im not sure Superman, Batman, and the rest were meant to
Re: Anyone here got a favorite science fiction tv show?
@Dark, I can certainly see where you were going. As I said in an earlier post some of the episodes, especially in the third season, were extremely cheesy/stupid. The one you mentioned about Kirk winning over the crowd with the Pledge
Re: Anyone here got a favorite science fiction tv show?
@Dark, I am sure if they had wanted to they could have done another movie based on the Next Generation cast and crew. I think the only reason they didnt is because in 2009 Paramount sold the rights to Star Trek to CBS who decided to
Re: Monthly chat december
Dark, yeah, I came across a mention of the case you speak of on the NFB and NCD websites. Apparently it was quite famous, perhaps infamous, because it was an appalling case of denying the womans civil rights.As I understand it after the woman gave birth the
Re: Monthly chat december
Sad to say I have come to realize the situation is worse than what Cinnamon stated. Yes, I was aware of the fact that in the large majority of cases family court sides with the mother in child custody cases, but I wasnt aware how discriminatory and prejudiced our
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