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I wish to once again receive the email digest of the mailing list.
How do I do this?
You'll have to have a Google account associated with the address
you're using on the list. Then you use http://groups.google.com/ to
log in and change your
Even if the radio button appears checked for your selected networking method,
press it again and authenticate. Sometimes it happens that the VMWare
networking driver gets out of sync with the configuration of your virtual
machine. This will especially be true for bridged networking.
Cheers,
iOS devices can be backed up to either iTunes or iCloud on a regular basis.
However, if you enable iCloud backup, iTunes backup will not occur
automatically; you have to perform it manually by choosing File, Device, Back
Up from iTunes when the device is selected or, if it's the only one you
I'm absolutely fine and dandy with Daniel on iOS, having become used to it; I
hate it on OS X. I have no idea why this is, but think it might have something
to do with the speakers; on smaller speakers with less range, the Ss are
clearer to understand, whereas on my desktop speakers they are
I have long had these. They're excellent. The Time Capsule makes sense for
backups, of course, but you can use the disk for other purposes too. And the
AirPort Express is way nicer than messing about with dedicated AirPlay
speakers. Supports MiniSPDIF, for those who know what that is.
I
Just to add to what's already been said:
Be aware that iCloud backups *DO NOT* include media that you synced with
iTunes. You will not get media that you ripped from CDs unless you have an
iTunes Match subscription. Podcasts may not all be available, although your
subscriptions may still be.
Ideally, the worst that can possibly happen to you is that you lose your USB
disk or its contents with the installer, lose the recovery HD (well,
partition), and have a Mac whose firmware was updated to support Internet
Recovery, but not so as to install the latest OS. Then you would turn on
On 23 Jun 2014, at 09:10, Jason White ja...@jasonjgw.net wrote:
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But that really is the worst possible scenario. Lots of bad stuff has to
happen first, like you've lost local backups, lost the USB installer, lost
the recovery HD, etc. This almost
On 23 Jun 2014, at 10:03, Jason White ja...@jasonjgw.net wrote:
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Fair enough, but a baseline Mac is booting from an external machine from
code in the firmware. That's pretty special.
that's exactly what PXE does, which is why I mentioned
Hi Eileen,
To be honest, braille on OS X is a bit substandard. As you can see, it doesn't
even quite work as designed in some text fields. I'd encourage you to open the
same document in TextEdit, for comparison. Don't get your hopes up for
anything like the quality of support from the
Hi Robert,
An alias (in iCloud terminology) is simply another recognised address for your
account. Apple Mail automatically allows you to choose from among your enabled
aliases as the sender, but in other email software you will have to manually
supply such addresses as potential From:
Yep! Braille for me, but only with BRLTTY, and only at the command line in
text mode. That is the complete braille experience, IMO. At all other times,
it's essentially required that you have speech, which is really no good for
anything except reading numbers over the phone.
And peace and
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Yep! Braille for me, but only with BRLTTY, and only at the command line in
text mode. That is the complete braille experience, IMO.
Indeed it is. Does BRLTTY still run on OS X
On 24 Jun 2014, at 08:48, Dionipher Presas Herrera dionip...@gmail.com wrote:
i wish they included the functionality of the modem on it, because most
router now have modem included, which i am using now a D-link modem router
Yeah, I know. But you can often put your cable modem in
How long have you had it for? Some flash chipsets respond to complete wear by,
you guessed it, turning read-only. I wonder if perhaps the disk has had it?
Did it come with software, do you remember? Perhaps you have need of it now,
to Unprotect it. Doubt this is the real reason if you've
Still an issue on the latest Mini, unfortunately. When I used to have a KVM I
was in a much better place, but now I need the Thunderbolt port long-term, so I
just reluctantly put up with it. It only affects the window server; other
processes ought to be fine, including server services that
It's not strictly necessary to use any external tools to create your bootable
media, in fact, unless you really want to avoid the command line. If you can
brave the command line, however, the tool comes in the Mavericks installer
bundle, under Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia; run it with
You can do the installation from the recovery mode, but unless you're using
Internet recovery it's not quite as Pure as creating from and then booting
the installer media, repartitioning the target disk, and then reinstalling to
that. You get a fresh Recovery HD that way.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
Use Internet Recovery if both these are true:
* Your Mac came with Mavericks
* You are connected via Ethernet (cable) to the network
Otherwise, get a USB flash disk whose contents you don't care about at all, and
create media with it. Buy one, if you don't have one. They're cheap. 8GB
Create folders on your iOS home screen by putting apps on top of one another.
Hope that was the answer you were looking for.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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You can do Internet Recovery using wi-fi, however you will need sighted help.
If your machine came with Mountain Lion then the chances are fairly good that
you'll be clean-installing Mountain Lion using this method.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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Hi Traci,
Having Googled about a bit (this interests me, even though I don't have a
ChromeCast) it seems to me that your best resolution for this problem is to
chuck your ChromeCast in the bin and then stamp on it. Thanks for bringing this
up so I don't have to buy it, and also I'd keep a
If you'd like to delete mail from an email account on one device and see it
deleted on another, set up an IMAP account. This is supported by most service
providers; check with them for details on the settings. iCloud supports IMAP.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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Hi again Traci,
Sorry about the confusion, but I hate oversimplifying things. I'm not Apple. :)
Got it regarding your compare of Apple TV and ChromeCast, and I think you have
it about right; AppleTV works in the particular set of circumstances that Apple
have designed it for, and indeed most
Just to add to what Tim's said, it's important to realise that iTunes never,
ever replaces your existing songs with matched copies, even when the local copy
is of lower quality. You would have to delete the copy in iTunes and
redownload in order to obtain the 256K AAC versions.
I use iTunes
Basically, yes. When you turn on Match on iOS, you can consider any storage
for music to be essentially dispensable and ephemeral. There is a download
button for albums and songs that are not yet on the device, so that you can
grab stuff before you go, but at all other times it's just
I just ordered five of these and will let you know how it goes:
http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/fit-headless/
They deliver worldwide.
These are devices that connect to your HDMI port, and emulate a monitor, just
like we were talking about earlier. Anyone else used them?
Cheers,
Sabahattin
AirPort Express used to only have one Ethernet port, which was for your
Internet connection, unless you put it into repeater mode. Now, it has two
ports, allowing it to either be your Internet router and provide an Ethernet
port for wired clients, or to bridge the two ports together onto your
iCloud aliases always accept email and messages addressed to them are always
dropped into your mailbox, filtered or forwarded according to your rules.
Mail.app lets you pick the default alias from a list, just like on iOS.
Folders are IMAP, so they're shared across platforms and devices. If
If you just delete tracks from iCloud, they are hidden from iCloud. They
remain in your Purchases list. To get rid even of purchases, use iTunes on the
Mac to go to Purchases and then choose Not on this computer and hide each
item. You hide items by routing the VO cursor to the button in the
Anyone know where we are with regard to Flash on OS X, or is it the same old
game of passing the ball?
Yeah, I know, silly question and I already know the answer, but I'll ask
anyway. :)
The BBC have made the regrettable decision to continue using Flash, even on
Macs, in spite of
Yes, you can have different default aliases on Mac and iOS.
You can't change that both addresses deliver to the same mailbox; you'd have to
create a separate iCloud account. Alternatively, filter the mail on your Mac
or in iCloud such that mail for the other aliases goes into a folder.
You
Unfortunately, the BBC have decided to insist on Flash on the desktop, and
provide HTML5 only to iOS. You can use tools like get_iplayer to work around
this, of course, but meh. As long as there are content publishers who use DRM,
Flash will always have a place, sadly. I'd like this to change,
Following the Snowden revelations, I'm working on bringing myself down from the
cloud a bit. Right now the only public cloud data I have is for website
hosting, and for my email account with iCloud. I'm thinking of bringing my mail
server in-house again soon.
I used to use Dropbox; I don't
You can't power on or off the Mac using a Bluetooth keyboard. However, you can
wake your Mac from sleep, if it is configured to do so, when activity is
detected from a Bluetooth keyboard. Take a look at System Preferences,
Bluetooth, Advanced.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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Hi Robert,
Even compared to iOS, Mac braille support is very rudimentary. Off the top of
my head:
No support for direct input, only predefined function keys.
Poor computer braille table support outside North America.
Buggy, sometimes unusable grade 2 translation, where punctuation is adjacent
Hi Alex,
Yeah, I get the same thing. My first thought was just that this was part of
the vetting process for new subscribers, because I've only recently rejoined
here. I don't do this on my Google groups, and as far as I can see all other
GG traffic goes to where it needs to be. But you
Apple has Apple Remote Desktop, for which the client and server parts are
already in the operating system, but for which the user interface is exposed
fully by the paid ARD application.
BTMM (Back To My Mac) is a specific method for accessing services on a remote
Mac with the help of Apple's
I feel a little bit guilty for saying this, as I just *know* there's a clear
conflict of interest going on here, but ...
It's obvious that Swift is the language Apple want you to use, and I don't want
to discourage you from that, because it's clearly designed for efficiency and
enjoyment. But
Gmail IMAP is broken to the point that any rational human being would struggle
to understand how its designers created it the way they did. Indeed, as you
discovered, deletion operations take an extraordinarily long time, during which
the messages are still available. Don't worry; eventually
I should have been clearer when I said that by learning Objective C one would
inherently know how to program in C, because I really meant to emphasise that
it's C you should learn, but as it happens it's actually the case, because
Objective-C is a proper superset of C, unlike C++. So while you
If you've signed up as an Apple developer, go to developer.apple.com and sign
in with your Apple ID. Visit your Member Centre page, and you should find
links to your enrolled programs there. All that is required to begin receiving
seed updates is a one-time change to your Software Update
Hi Robert,
If you just want the sync part, there is BitTorrent Sync or SyncThing. These
tools let you replicate changes across computers, in the fashion of Dropbox,
but without a central server. However, dumb clients like iOS devices can't
access the data unless one of your machines is
But again, those are simply features of Objective-C. If you simply don't use
Objective-C features and therefore Objective-C syntax, your program is valid C
source. So if you learn the entire grammar of Objective-C, you also know the
entire grammar of C, no matter how incidental it is to your
Ah, the Gmail issue is separate. Gmail automatically discards multiple copies
of messages, which means that a message you just sent doesn't reappear in your
inbox via the list. Another reason to drop Gmail. :)
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Hi Tim,
The problem comes when you need an interactive utility, such as Directory
Editor, System Preferences or, most frustrating of all, the Mac App Store.
Though you may use the softwareupdate command-line tool to fetch software
updates, you can't get Mac App Store updates, including to
Just curious, I took a look. It's not the server certificate that's the
problem, it's that it's requesting client TLS authentication, which is
obviously broken if it's meant to be public-access. Unfortunately Safari on OS
X insists that you make a choice, regardless of whether or not you even
It's in our Dropbox folder. Link:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/quqwcm244sqoh5a/AAAjzc-O6RMNwBzAtFYIFKCEa/experimental/AudioQuake-2014.0-beta1.mac.zip
This is experimental. Please don't write just to complain; we already know
it's at least partly broken. :)
If you would like to get involved and
I have the following policy regarding buying stuff from Apple:
1. Buy it only if it was just announced.
2. Buy the highest amount of every upgradable resource.
In this way, your investment is maximised.
You will find this a difficult policy to enforce. You will probably also
be glad to hear
Hi Jonathan. BTMM does use IPv6 for the internal cloud addresses (unique-local
addressing), but the endpoints are still IPv4. It's entirely possible that
Apple has changed their protocol since they last documented it, but at the time
the home gateway needed some kind of NAT traversal support,
Hi Desi,
You should be able to turn on iCloud mail reception in the iCloud preference
pane in System Preferences. Find the Services group, interact, and then look
for Mail. When you switch this on, you should be prompted for your new primary
iCloud address (you can create three more aliases
Yep, ditto. You can log in using your new iCloud address, but Apple seems to
give them special treatment, such that you can't actually make your primary
identifier your iCloud address. Annoying as hell, but just ignore it.
And a caution: whatever you do, do not remove your old email address
Hi Tim,
Thanks a lot, I'll give it another try. Obviously I would be a much happier
person if it worked 100% reliably, but indeed the hard part is getting the
Server app updated, and then restarting it; often it's easier to just remember
to bring the keyboard, even when I'm remoting close
When you say disk recovery, do you mean disk repair or data recovery? Of
course, the native disk repair tools can be booted from an external volume.
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When I used to be on IRC and other networks a lot, and I ran my own Jabber
server on my VPS, the best solution I found was to run an IRC transport and
then join IRC channels much as any other MUC room on Jabber. This was highly
accessible but resulted in latency problems as the machine was
The rule is that a disk less than or equal to 32 GB should be formatted as
FAT32, whereas disks larger than 32 GB should be formatted as ExFAT.
Exception: for interoperability with Linux, always use FAT32. This works
because the overhead required for maintaining the directories and FAT is
Assuming Apple and Nokia are still mutually uninterested in increasing QT
accessibility, then the outlook is still pretty bleak. Ironic, because there
was a time when things were significantly better; I think QT4 messed everything
up. VirtualBox is a QT app, and we all know how that went.
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Assuming Apple and Nokia are still mutually uninterested in increasing QT
accessibility, then the outlook is still pretty bleak.
QT accessibility has been completely reworked
Hi all,
Just wanted to report complete success with the HDMI-connected Fit-Headless on
the Mac Mini 6,1. The performance is now every bit as good as though a real
display were connected, which is especially noticeable in the Finder. So, if
you were put off a Mac Mini because of the need for
The Fit-Headless is the HDMI adaptor; it plugs into the HDMI port and has no
other end. Presumably if you wanted to use a telly you could without one of
these; the whole point is to avoid the silly performance degradation that
results from having no monitor attached at all. And of course
The device essentially tricks the GPU into being used, which speeds up OS X
rendering the UI. You need a similar thing to run OpenCL applications on
Windows. I'm not sure whether or if Linux can be made to work without it, but
if I do put Linux on a Mini I'll try it both ways.
Yes, the
Probably best not to surf porn or download torrents at work, or on a work
computer.
HTH :)
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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Mmm. Unless you have a filtered Internet connection, which is unusual at home,
I can't imagine why you'd be getting messages like that. Which torrent client
are you using? I find both uTorrent and Transmission to be accessible, to
varying degrees.
As for your porn problem, I really wouldn't
You can install BitTorrent clients on either platform, Mac or Windows. It's
not clear to me why you'd be getting issues on either side.
Which client are you using? What software did you download? If you got it
from some dodgy place, and not from the official page of the client, that might
The number of email clients on OS X, much less those that are any good and also
accessible, is tragically limited. I'm an advanced email user, so this bothers
me a lot.
Of the native clients I have found, MailMate appears the most promising.
Sadly, the release schedule is very long, and when
It's not peachy, but I'm fairly optimistic. Although for various reasons I
don't believe Ofcom has real teeth, we do have social acceptance of
audiodescription and subtitles on public broadcasts, which goes a long way to
making the case for it. That's one genuine advantage of having taxpayers
On 11 Jul 2014, at 19:28, erik burggraaf e...@erik-burggraaf.com wrote:
Second, The Freedom Scientifics, GW Micros, and Humanwares, of the world are
a thing of the past and becoming less and less relevant every day as they
refuse to adapt and find ways to grow in a world where accessibility
Hi all,
Anyone know of a way to share links on Twitter direct from Safari? I know
there is a share function, but it only copies the URL and not the title into
the tweet; the only other option appears to be to set up a full-fledged Twitter
client like YoruFukurou. But I was hoping for
It's just my opinion, but I think it's the divisive and antagonistic way in
which the NFB makes its resolutions which is the source of all the trouble. I
don't doubt that what they're advocating for is valid, but their pompous,
self-indulgent manner of doing it is highly aggravating and
The title of the page is already the introduction. YoruFukurou has a function
to copy the currently browsed page title and URL into a tweet; I'm simply
looking for a way to add to that text from within Safari, without having to
install and configure the client.
Then again, by the time I have
Wait a few hours and try to reopen your Gmail All Mail folder. Deletions
take a very long time. Eventually, assuming you've correctly performed a
delete and expunge, your All Mail should be empty or very nearly empty, and all
the mail should be in Trash, from whence, in 30 days or so, it will
I doubt very much that track numbers will ever factor into iTunes Match
matching. As long as the details of the track are reasonable, i.e. including
album and name, you should be all right. The bulk of the work of identifying a
song is actually down to the sound data itself, and not the file
If you use the Partition tab in Disk Utility, which is visible when you select
the disk device in the table, then select 1 partition in layout, you can
erase the entire disk and repartition it with one partition in one step. Make
sure to press Options and make sure that GUID partition table is
To get to Internet Recovery, press Command+Option+R at the chime after power on.
You may need sighted help to pick from available wi-fi networks from which to
boot. I recommend using Ethernet (including Thunderbolt/USB adaptors from
Apple) as these require no sighted help.
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Yes. Once the unit boots off the network, you can turn on VoiceOver. But not
before. Use Ethernet, and you don't have to do that.
It certainly is convenient to build a disposable USB installer thumb drive.
Remember to go to the Mac App Store and download and remake your USB stick
whenever
At some point in the life of Snow Leopard they broke it, such that it does not
seamlessly read the output of commands. I have no idea why, but it has never
been the same again.
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I'm pleased to have the latest iMac with an optical drive. In this
curmudgeon's opinion, Apple's removal of an optical drive from a desktop
computer simply so that it is very _slightly_ thinner is in extremely poor
taste. The fact is that we keep DVDs and CDs in our homes, and are glad of the
If you install Mavericks again without reformatting first, you'll end up
upgrading the OS you already have, or repairing a copy of Mavericks you already
have. You may even find that if you run Software Update, you are offered
updates you already installed. That's about the extent of it. To
If the DVD is unprotected, it's sufficient just to create a disk image from the
DVD using Disk Utility, and then burn that image to a blank DVD of sufficient
size. Make sure that you choose Master (OS X extension .cdr) as your disk
image format. Select the volume in Disk Utility that you want
No, you mustn't use Finder at all to do this, and I think that's where your
problem is. If you can read the original DVD fine, then you can do all the
steps in Disk Utility.
Start with the source disk inserted, and select the volume on the disk in the
table. Choose File New Disk image from
Yes. Your new account will have separate name and password, and if it's just
used for email, that email address is its username.
Both Mac and iOS impose limits on secondary accounts, but email is not one of
them.
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No, this isn't DMARC; Google Groups only mangles the From field when it needs
to do so for DMARC purposes.
The problem lies with the regrettable (but very common) practice of lists
munging the Reply-To field so that the list address is listed, thus directing
replies back to the list. Mail.app
Google only replaces the From when necessary for DMARC. If a Yahoo user were
to post to this list, you would see the message as coming from them via the
list (it would say so in the sender's name) and the address in the From field
would be that of the group. I don't know for certain whether
I agree; it's even less fun for list admins and postmasters who now have to
patch stuff up for no conceivable reason just to keep the messages flowing,
trust me. The world would be a better place without either Yahoo or AOL, and
if we could just stop them from posting, our problems would be
Warning: whiny rant ahead.
I made the mistake of reinstalling Snow Leopard on one of my older machines
that supported it. I also learned that my desktop iMac originally came with
it, and that although difficult, I could choose to use it. This would still be
preferable to going back to
For the disk you are partitioning, in Disk Utility, select the number of
partitions you would like to have. There is no explicit delete option; you
select the disk's name (not a volume name, but the disk), choose the Partition
tab, and then set the number of partitions you would like, and
Is this your internal disk, first of all? You have to be very careful ...
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Select Current in the layout menu. What partitions do you already have? You
must somehow have allocated all the space.
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Yep, just bought my copy, for old time's sake.
Unfortunately, it's 10.6.3 and no later; Apple stopped making the discs
available for retail after that, and the only way to get the latest version is
if it came with a particular Mac. (Insert rant about Apple locking its media
to specific Macs
If your Mac journey starts with Lion, then I'd agree that anything subsequent
is a vast improvement. Of the three released since Lion, I think ML has proven
to be the least annoying and most stable, but Mavericks will probably prove
less frustrating at the current rate of VoiceOver instability
At any rate, with this new yearly schedule, I think the strategy of waiting
until the worst is ironed out is a very good idea. Apple is now patching two
releases prior to the current generation, so you have the option, within those
limits, of waiting for the dust to settle, which I highly
Well, when you Add a new partition, you are shrinking the partition whose
free space you are using transparently; this is all handled by the disk
management framework in OS X.
To be honest, Disk Utility isn't the nicest tool to use for these sorts of
jobs, so if you're up to it, I'd use the
Of course, you may continue to jump (VO-J) over to the message preview while
it's selected, but I prefer to have that pane off altogether to avoid messages
being marked read when they're selected.
I'm in classic mode because I always want the subject line read first while
skimming. As you
Can you send us the output of diskutil list so we can see where you are?
I do advise you to take that backup now, just in case.
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In Windows, delete temporary files (disk cleanup), defragment, and then shrink.
Shrink is done using the VMWareToolboxCmd tool from the command line, because
for some stupid reason VMWare removed the control panel applet from the tools.
Shut down, and finally clean up the VM using Fusion.
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Alpine also does this; I just tried and it prompts you whether or not you'd
like to reply using the reply address.
The problem is that using a textmode client makes it rather hard to be
efficient with speech only under OS X. It works reasonably well, but not well
enough to replace a native
OK, so we now know that you do, in fact, only have about 8GB of unpartitioned
space. Let's resize this to 70% of the disk, leaving 30% for your
testing--that would be about 20GB. Adjust as required. You'd type this, and
enter your password (hope you've got that backup):
sudo diskutil
I've got ProblemReporter logging to notification centre and almost every day
that I look VoiceOver has crashed several times. It seems to be particularly
bad when opening PDF files on the web or on pages where there's a lot of script
and dynamic content.
No, of course it's not shallow.
I'm not sure why DU is forcing such a small value. You ought to be able to
specify any size up to a maximum for each partition such that they all occupy
all of the space of the entire disk. This is really where DU just falls down,
as far as VO support is concerned.
You're correct that about
The command you now need is:
sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 45G JHFS+ Testing 0
The only time I consider Disk Utility to be reliable with VoiceOver is when
partitioning from scratch; then it's usually more convenient to use DU instead
of the CLI. But ultimately you can do more with the
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