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Digital TV, real or converted, is holiday priority - Holiday Guide- msnbc.com. seems very interesting. Take a look. Enjoy this read.

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.

Hi.
This is for the uaa driver.
I posted earlier.
The trouble chuting guide says installing xpsp3 should fix the issues in this driver but if not you should upgrade.
From what I got from scot at softwarepatch.com you will have audio but just not hd audio.
If you click on the microsoft uaa driver and get this device is not working properly and you have xpsp3 loaded and all updates then you may want to load this in if you care about hd audio.
If you got an hd audio card then you may want to concider this.
It makes games more realistic.
I have noticed in games such as terraformas that the hd cards well the realtech I have does not handle that well with playing the game but games like gtc really handle nicely.
If you have good headphones such as senheiser hd202 or higher or cos you will get a quite good sound with base, etc.
You don’t even need surround sound on, it really sounds like vertual reality.
I have not found any downsides to this yet.
So if you have this bus and its not working you should update.
On the other hand I wouldn’t update if you are not a gamer, if you re using your system and its ok I wouldn’t bother about it.
The file is 30mb after all thats not small.
Worse if something goes wrong then you may not have sound and that really is bad news.
If you have sighted help you may get it on, but if not you will need to use your recovery disks and reformat, so if you are not sure, don’t.
this driver does not apply to all new systems either, if your uaa device is working then no issue.
If you had the origional installs of xp or 2k or 2k3 then you will not be able to have hd audio till this support is loaded.
Check if you have an hd card and if you have a uaa buss, and if it is working.
I don’t know how far back the origional disks go back to but I may say xpsp1 disks and maybe the xp retail no service pack disks, xpsp2 should be ok, but someone can edit and fix this, that knows what all this is.
In conclusion I wouldn’t touch it unless you need to, go to www.softwarepatch.com and read the troublechuting guide to see if you meet the conditions.
I will check the other system I have here, I just hope I don’t need to install anything.

Hi.
hp 3500 driver update 9 is out on softwarepatch.
also the microsoft uaa bus driver.
This is where it gets weird.
this driver is supposed to fix issues with new systems not detecting the features or some such.
The guide on the site dictates on how to install this thing, however it also says that if the driver is found and works fine then, well you already have it.
this is something I will now quary.
no point trying to apply this if I don’t know what it does.
Unless your uaa bus driver does not work, that is in which case download the update.
I am going to query this and see what the story is.

Is Your Bank Really Merging?. This is a great article that should be read. Important information in it.

This was posted yesterday. A massive headache prevented me from doing much last night, so hear goes.

Greetings,

We have posted text versions of each section of the Window-Eyes tutorial
on our Tutorial web page. In
addition to downloading and/or streaming the audio versions of the
tutorial sections, you can now choose to read a transcript of the
sections, including the speech that Window-Eyes provides. This is an
excellent resource for deaf/blind users.

A single text file containing all sections will be available shortly on
the same page.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Aaron
–

Hi.
the listings are on softwarepatch.
there is also n update for a logitec cordless mouse look into the site for more info.
updates listed update xml core and smb.
the xml core is the important one since loads of things are in xml
As a data format its small and can be indexed, loads of things use it from drive imagers to games to websites so its important to keep this updated.
Nokia pc suite 7.92 is out www.blindsea.com has the stuff for nokia phones in an easy format.
I may come back later depending on what I find on here.
I have only got started.
On the up side it looks like summer is finally here so starting early is a good thing.
Hopefully things continue as smoothly as they will.
The shuttle launches saturday at some point, well it is saturday for me.

>Hi all.
>This is a multipart post
>Or something.
>its that time of month.
>The following has been released.
>Note yet again softwarepatch does not have the listings yet so the patchy barebones info from us cert will have to do.
>Windows xp/vista have updates.
>Unfortunately I will have to post the listings when I get them.
>Msxml 4.0
>ms office xp 2k3 2k7 security update.
>this includes the junk email for outlook.
>
>all of these are security updates.
>
>Directx november 2008 is now out on softwarepatch.
>This is a standard 4 monthly update.
>All updates are for the xna framework and direct 3d.
>Also included are the 32 and 64 bit versions as well as the cabinets for directx10
>The update is around 86mb in size now.
>
>Warning! the next lot of updates should not be downloaded if you use dialup.
>You can but each is betwene 2 and 20mb in size.
>Why microsoft has decided I will never know but under the optional update section of windows update on office 2007 there is all the help for every program, word, excel, powerpoint publisher one note and script editer.
>I think thats about the entire 2k7 office system.
>In a side note
>http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/
>is where you get the new odf converter.
>Remember when it was 1.0 for word now it is for everything excel powerpoint and word.
>Not publisher yet, but the version is 2.0
>You don’t seem to have to install bits of dotnet if these are already loaded and the installs are faster.
>You need to uninstall the 1.0 update first though, which is no big deal.
>
>Note! directx nov 08 may crash after completing on some networks at least it crashed when updating on my network on the secondary duelcore system.
>If this happens you will not have speech, push the reset button.
>now rerun the update from a flashdrive or simular.
>I don’t care for this much in the wake of the security bad things that got on the server a couple months back and the trogen that got itself on my reasonably secured system last week.
>All these things are easy to clean but it has made me rely on the net share more than my flash drive.
>I will catch you later when I have those listings.