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New Payment Processing
On January 1st, the code behind the PayPal payment buttons changed without notice. This rendered the existing donation buttons broken because, while the appearance did not change, the buttons redirected to the home page instead of the intended payment form. The buttons we first generated a couple years back were all saved. The new code…
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Virtualization Succeeds for Phase 1: Remote desktop to Windows 10
The first phase of virtualization was successful! The glitch in installing Windows 10 as the primary operating system, and the error with Window-Eyes restarting at regular intervals, caused another week delay. Yet once speech was activated and the remote desktop connection found, we were ready for action. Everything behaved beautifully from the remote server as…
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The Server Arrives
After a week of configuration, today the new server arrived! If you have never seen a server-grade computer, the first thing you will be surprised by is the size. It is bigger than any standard tower PC, with handles on each end of the top to facilitate transport. Second, you will find no standard serial…
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Humanware design flaw revealed in the Braille Note
Modern conceptions of note takers have a serious flaw. Calling a computerized device a "note taker" implies that the primary purpose is to write notes and documents in a form that can be easily referenced and stored forever. Anything that does not meet this basic requirement should not be labeled a note taker. So why…
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Happy PI Day!
Happy PI Day!
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The Computer Daemons Strike in Force
Today the forces seem to aligned to bring out the computer daemons. The morning started with Visual Studio locking up in an endless test run, withoug giving any indication of where it was stuck. Despite all the debug log messages included for such a bug, only quail chirped. That was fine because the code debugger…
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System Crash Strikes on Lunar Eclipse
Today my Braille Lite 2000 crashed again. It has been functioning flawlessly over the past year since the last memory corruption occurred (when for the first time I found null charactors popping up in the files). This is the worst yet and rendered the unit effectively inoperable. The miracle is that “interface Rick” had just…
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Customization of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for a Screen Reader
How to Make Visual Studio Talk Correctly At last, after days, weeks and months of pain and punishment inflected by a rude and unfriendly Visual Studio IDE, after searching for a solution to the time-wasting effect of VS2008 not talking, finally today a major break-through is made! Microsoft’s Visual Studio can actually be made to…