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Hi.
This is a critical note about the uaa buss, this prevides highdef audio.
Thats what softwarepatch reads.
It should read this is the interface for high def audio cards.
Without it you will have no sound.
And if you disable it for any reason then reenable it this will happen.
1. to enable it you need sighted help.
2. you will need a new copy of nvda because nvda will not start.
you will need to uninstall hal and sam because orpheus1 or whatever will not be recognised, also orpheus needs removal.
you can leave your dcm or mirror driver allone.
Now system sounds will not work till you varify each sound in the control panel.
things should work after this.
reinstall hal and update it.
your settings and old maps should still exist.
you need to update to any patched versions though.
you also need to update maps.
One thing that I noticed that is not fixed is the fact on startup of the system the taskbar start button that is usually put up does not get announced at first.
its ok though if you tab to it, it will be announced.
Its probably just me being picky.
I am always that way, essentually you are back up.
Oh be prepaired to have to switch back to your sound card that has the hd audio.
I don’t have the hardware to do this but I wander what would happen if you had the uaa off on the hidef card but had a second card in there that was not high def and switched to it?
Just a stupid thought as I will not do this again.
Also be aware for stupid users.
who ask you to get their system’s set up and then don’t bother continuing.

Hi all.
well its been a little.
I personally wouldn’t trust norton with my life at least anything after 2002 that is in the middle of 2003 symantec got the good norton stuff from norton corp.
They made it dictatorial, ie if you want to turn off autoprotect it will say but its off, turn it back on every 10 seconds.
This was especially anoying if you had removed it from the registry by force.
reformat time please.
It was also hard to remove, ie after an uninstall you couldn’t set the things to start they would just exit.
This really sucks.
I still rate norton disk docter over scandisk and win docter over regscrub xp
speaking of which what do you guys with vista use to clean your registeries
I finally finnished cleaning the system, wander how long it will last for.
Trying to find out if the stupid speech rec can be not put in startup, and if it can be closed and will not try to communicate with itself and the net in general.
if it can then I can avoid the stupid firewall when updating the system, honesly its like only an hour
anyway I hope this will work out.
zonealarm is no real use to me except with nvda.
It would be easier if the thing was not cracked.
Honestly I do dabble in such things but its obvious that the manufacturors have made it hard to get things going.
Fine! they did it, I’m buying.
Not this user, now if this system goes down, I am so cutting back.
Let me think, no joystick, no photos, no scanner, ok ok the photos and scanner as well as office and other things are needed.
But seriouslly the screensavers can go, the joystick and a few nice things like ie7.
Also all the extra weird video players installed pluss the extra junk can go, the extra poker for example.
To be honest all that system needs is office and maybe for the next while.
hmph.
I think after this user finnishes with uni I will clean all the uni software from the system.
That gives me a load more room.
maybe I’ll clean the photos although thats shared so maybe not.
Still I will be watching the system.
If this user does get me hacked off any more I can probably do something ruthless like delete his account.
That will fix a load of issues.
Oh boy.

Well,
My trip to the store was successful, and I’m broadcasting as I write
this covering for a show, then doing my own on an Internet Radio station.
In the meantime, I still have some things I’d like to cover in the podcast,
and I may work on that later today or tomorrow. I hope everyone is doing
well otherwise.

I hope this is temporary, but I’ve been working on our podcast 81 which is
packed and is an hour already. I have not yet covered everything I want to,
but my microphone just gave out. This sucks, isn’t technology supposed to
work? I’ll hopefully be able to get a replacement tomorrow. Keeping
fingers crossed.

Hi all
Well avg has a program update.
I would have sent this but currently the isp is bing a real hastle.
Last night the entire net went offline.
Today I got back on and everything is up, almost.
I can’t send any email.
For now thats ok, I don’t really need to send mail for now, however I was pissed because of the fact I missed my nasa highlights for last night.
In other news a user on the main server wants a firewall, and new draggon naturally speaking.
Vary well but this is one of the users that is realy messy.
I am removing programs and clearing things to the best of my ability
I am also cleaning things.
the system iis old and quite slow although with sojme things its real fast.
There are some limits to what I can do as this user gets viruses from uni and needs full avg on.
Turning this off would aleviate a load of issues I feel but ait can’t be done, yet.
There are a load of things I really could get rid of, but again, others use the system.
photos, and photo package files litter the system as well as 2 poker games a risk game and several screensavers and a mapping program all of which are off limits.
I managed to remove a security module that can be done without, at any rate this user was the only one using it.
At the moment I am clearing his registry and cleaning temp files.
I need to spyscan the box.
Hopefully this will solve some heartakes.
but I am limited by what I have to play with.
The main admins have suggested a reformat.
Frankly a reformat will not fix it.
The system is old, and needs updating.
Also it won’t matter because of said messy user.
He really has no sense in being tidy.
So there is this added abuse.
On top of this he expects me to fix the thing.
So last night I was up from 4pm till midnight doing just that.
If all works well I will have the bulk of it done by lunch time.
I then hope I can get things to run right.
But if not this user will have to cut back on avg, cut back on his stupid good for nothing anoyance firewall, and stuff himself down a deep hole.
I am sick to my ram chips over this.
This is not how I invisioned spending the weekend.
This system has been working nicely for 6 years.
6 years!!! with out reformatting.
I have avoided this by actually caring.

Hi.
Ok guys for those that got the ms updates for office 2007 help the access help is up under optional updates its about 20mb.
Those on dialup don’t get this, its not worth the wait.

Hi.
well the windows security cirts package is released for the next period.
Its in optional updates in windowsupdate.
Digital tv is quite good, I have a freeview box on my new hdtv and the sound is quite good.
Some channels tend to have higher or lower volumes and some crackle and hiss a tiny bit.
I am pleased with the digital tv especially as my family says it displays the channels as names rather than numbers and that you can load a program which will broadcast at the normal time your tv will go on to it.
its not sky but its quite good, we get 6 more channels.
nothing really new to report.
the net is as dry as a desert.
So I will go away, need to update things and get mp3s of the server

Well folks, The last podcast was concepted on November 1st, and it has been three weeks since a show. I did not have time to complete one for Noovember 8th as things were going on. November 15th came around and I had planned to sit down to do a cast, but we had fires in the area, and then I fell sick. So we’re on the 22nd of November, and I’ve recovered quite a bit, but still not in the condision to really sit down to record. I’m hopefully thinking of doing one during Thanksgiving weekend, as I will have the weekend off of work. Don’t worry, my other podcasts have been effected by my resporatory infection, so don’t feel bad. Being out in smoky condisions didn’t help my tech brain at all, it just killed it. I’ve got plenty, including some stuff from Mary Landesman, Trend Micro, and who knows what else I may decide to put within the vast amounts of things that I have saved in my Inbox to read. I thought I’d mention what was going on. Don’t forget you can donate to us through Pay Pal if you wish, its not required, and no button will be placed on the site, as I will not push it. But you can send your donation to tech@menvi.org or write me with any suggestions, comments, or whatever about what you’ve heard. I already plan on making some changes to the upcoming podcast by a suggestion I got by a telephone listener. So I hope you will stay tuned, I hope to start posting some of what I will be talking about within the coming week. For now, I leave you, and we’ll see you soon.

Hi all.
Quick news.
windows update has updated their software.
Also there are the hd realtechs drivers 2.08 and the alc drivers 2.08.
Not that I am updating anymore.
at any rate I have no idea what I would update in any case.
Not much in either of my journals.
Nothing much to do really.
Still playing music, although flopped this week which sucked.
Started playing night of parasite.
Podcasts on the net quite thin although I am downloading books.
Tomorrow most of the family come back from tramping.
As you can see its still not much.
Back to tech, or piano, or something, man its hot here.
laters.

Hi.
acording to uscert all mozilla products have security issues, you should upgrade to the latest versions.