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Hi all.
was reading the iss blog today and found this item.
I also found a way to subscribe to the latest news so expect any updates I find interesting from there.
This will mean more articles from me rather than updates.
speaking of which firefox 3.6 is now official.
Note that at least some users of nvda on the nvda list have found firefox to have some inaccessible issues.
the following article comes from

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jan/HQ_M10-011_Hawaii221169.html

that link also has instructions on subscribing and unsubscribing to the news system.
the text version is at

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jan/HQ_M10-011_Hawaii221169.txt

the article is pasted below

Jan. 22, 2010

John Yembrick
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov

Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-012

NASA EXTENDS THE WORLD WIDE WEB OUT INTO SPACE

HOUSTON — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received
a special software upgrade this week – personal access to the
Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection.

Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer made first use of the new
system Friday, when he posted the first unassisted update to his
Twitter account, @Astro_TJ, from the space station. Previous tweets
from space had to be e-mailed to the ground where support personnel
posted them to the astronaut’s Twitter account.

“Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International
Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! More soon, send
your ?s”

This personal Web access, called the Crew Support LAN, takes advantage
of existing communication links to and from the station and gives
astronauts the ability to browse and use the Web. The system will
provide astronauts with direct private communications to enhance
their quality of life during long-duration missions by helping to
ease the isolation associated with life in a closed environment.

During periods when the station is actively communicating with the
ground using high-speed Ku-band communications, the crew will have
remote access to the Internet via a ground computer. The crew will
view the desktop of the ground computer using an onboard laptop and
interact remotely with their keyboard touchpad.

Astronauts will be subject to the same computer use guidelines as
government employees on Earth. In addition to this new capability,
the crew will continue to have official e-mail, Internet Protocol
telephone and limited videoconferencing capabilities.

To follow Twitter updates from Creamer and two of his crewmates, ISS
Commander Jeff Williams and Soichi Noguchi, visit:

http://twitter.com/NASA_Astronauts

For more information about the space station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

-end-

so there you have it.
another message from me.
In other news entombed has entered rc2.4.
The game is on limited preeorder to the test team.
Right now there are loads ofbalencing bugs and other things to do as the test team fiddles with the new content.later

Hi.
ie and silverlite have updates
java 6.18 is out

hi.
software patch.com the main portal I use for patches is reviewed as security risk about free with a couple small issues, cookies, and a couple other things not sure how acurate this is.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/softwarepatch.com/summary/

its good to know that the site is free of risk and that its really popular and that sites they use for other things are good to.
there are no user opinions or reviews like user comments which I would really have liked to read.
myself the site has most of what I want, the owner is helpfull and I actually like that.
The site serves stuff up quite quickly.
there are a couple popups but thats just life.
Once there was spyware and also some broken links but as I said the owner was quite helpfull in doing something about it.
He is also aware the blind do use it to which means that the site should stay text for some time.
The only site portal semi usable is jfwlite.com although there are no updates to that site anymore after the origional owner died and its being maintained only.
Or rather kept online.
so eventually the links for all the new stuff will go out of date but all the old stuff will not.

hi all
disgust is the lest strong of the words I wish to express about the new google phone.
Saying that it is a rather bucking falier is an understatement of the decade the first of such of this one at any rate.
Unaccessible touch screen, and not much else.
wall papers crashing the system and loads of other dissapointing factors
The list goes on, the iphone has its points that when it crashes it doesn’t totally do it and even then.
I am still of the old style symbian type, however this is just dissapointing.

In the case of skype tv its not as sucky as people may think.

Skype tv is actually quit possible.
From reading www.digitaldarragh.com
I have found that it is possible if you need to to mount an eee pc or other mini computer in the back of a tv meaning internet, tv, email other movies, etc could be watched from the confort of your own couch or loungesuite.
Its also good social
eticate for one thing.
I have been told to actually leave my system and do more things of late like swim in the pool and other wise go out of my room.
Although I chould run the system for a short time on the wireless on the go, as it were I’d still have to focus on it so hmph.
I can see skype tv and maybe direct interface with a computer with the tv as a good idea for the older generation.
My grandpa for example can not use a small laptop keyboard or read a small screen.
He has a new system but does not use it as he should.
If it was on his tv I could see him using it more especially since he does have the resources for it.
Having tv in general for most sighted means you can have access to hidef screens and sound systems.
Again grandpa has one and I think it would rock to play games with if only I could hook the system up to the tv.
Ofcause with an eee pc or other mini system the fact you can have it on the network and not see the system necessarily, would really jazz things up.
My system is a laptop so it can go anywhere.
However by itself I can’t do much with it.
If I need to have external devices then they need to exist making it fill up a desk.
I have hard drives, scanners, bulky headsets external keyboards and mice on here.
and whilst this makes it a nice feature they are all noticable.
To play anything without headphones on good quality I need to connect the system to a bulky pair of speakers and a sub under my desk or a bulky amp next to my desk which is about as high as my chest.
The tv soundsystem is set up with speakers in corners of the room, on top of the set and underneeth, the console of the system is quite flat and ancle hight.
There are also a lot of advantages when dealing with this sort of tech.
Its cheaper to replace things and has multipul benifits.
The only tech that comes close is a mac which could if it wished to run everything you wanted.

forgot the stupid link

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/directxdownload.html

Hi all
here is a description of directx as put out by softwarepatch its an interesting read if nothing else.

Hi.
happy new year and such today in new years eve in new zealand.
I have been out all day and have a party currently going on at my house.
However i wanted to catch up on things.
firstly drivers are out on softwarepatch for realtech usb mass storage controls and version 2.04 for the hd card for all oses are out.

here is an interesting link

http://www.internetfirstpage.com/

now check out

http://www.internetlastpage.com/

weird eh?

Hi all.
A new update for the nokia phones has been released as an optional download also one big 100mb download for pc suite.
Its called ovisuite.
Installer is visual as.
however somehow I got it loaded.
it has to do something with a music store and I didn’t bother with.
the application on the pc looks semi accessible.
If you are a one that buys music on your phone of all things then this may be for you.
For the rest.
Don’t bother.
in fact don’t bother with updating pcsuite, wait for pcsuite to come on www.blindsea.com
If you inadvertantly have got this loaded in your system.
in addremove choose the first ovisuite program and uninstall it.
answer yes.
then do the same with the updater.
after that
enter pcsuite suite and tell it to exit.
next go to the program files folder go to nokia and kill the ovisuite folder
you will have to close a couple services first in task manager.
next go to the all users application folder and kill any ovisuite refferences, and then do the same in each user folder.
start pcsuite, and then tell it not to start.
restart the system.
This should do it.

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