The “Wayback Machine”, eh?  Love it.

Sure it is, if you don't multitask, (have multiple programs open at once), leave programs open for hours at a time, and reboot regularly (meaning every day or two), and don't run programs like microsoft office which has some memory leaks that tend to eat memory the longer they're left open.  For some values of normal usage, yes, 2GB is fine, but for the rest of us, 2GB barely qualifies as enough to run windows os by itself.  Tablets are different, since they have a (slightly) different version of windows that optimizes memory usage, but normal windows, under normal usage patterns, it will not be happy with only 2GB of ram, because it will have to swap a lot, and that will slow things down.  There's a reason computers seem to appear so much faster when upgraded from 2 to 4GB of ram in every single case I've seen, and it's because memory swapping doesn't have to occur nearly as often, and that makes the system much faster overall.  Sure, you can get along with 2GB of ram, but it's like driving a bicycle to get around as opposed to a motorcycle.  Sure, the bicycle will work, but the motorcycle is considerably faster, and can do things the bicycle can't.  Same thing with 2 vs. 4 GB of ram on windows.

Don't fool yourself, there's a reason windows states 2GB as a minimum, it's just that, the minimum required to run the os.  That doesn't mean the os will run optimally or even perform adequately, just that it will run.

That is not true.  2GB is fine for 32bit versions of Windows. 

 

Gene

----- Original Message -----

From: Travis Siegel

Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2019 10:27 PM

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Subject: Re: [nvda] Problems With NVDA

umm, you're confusing ram and storage.  An SD card won't give you more
ram, that will only provide more external storage.  swapping SD cards
allows you to copy more files to those cards, but does nothing for your
RAM, which is where programs run.  2GB is poretty low for any version of
windows, except if you're using a tablet, there's not much you can do
about it. If you're on a pc, it's (usually) easy to upgrade the ram in
the computer, providing you have empty slots or the ram you have isn't
maxed out.  Most machines can only take a limited amount of ram, and you
need to know what that limit is before trying to upgrade the machine.
However, though I don't know for sure, it sounds to me like you're
talking about a tablet, in which case, the ram isn't upgradable.

On 2/7/2019 7:05 PM, Ibrahim Ajayi wrote:
> Hello again:
> I thank all those who found time to respond to my issue.
> Brian, My GBRam is a low grid.  It is just 2GB.  But even with that I
> don't have this problem with JAWS.  But as I said yesterday, chrome
> appears to be reasonably fine with the screen reader, although firefox
> and internet explorer are almost unusable.
> I am thinking of increasing my GB ram with an SDCard.
> Regards.
> Ibrahim.
>
> On 2/7/19, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io
> <bglists@...> wrote:
>> Well I'd not go that far but it is faster on lower spec machines,
>> certainly.
>>   Brian
>>
>> bglists@...
>> Sent via blueyonder.
>> Please address personal E-mail to:-
>> briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff'
>> in the display name field.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@...>
>> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2019 8:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nvda] Problems With NVDA
>>
>>
>> Use Chrome, it is better than either Firefox or Internet Explorer.
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ibrahim Ajayi
>> Sent: 07 February 2019 00:07
>> To: nvda@groups.io
>> Subject: [nvda] Problems With NVDA
>>
>> Hello:
>> I am having problems with my NVDA screen reader.
>> The screen reader is just too slow when I am browsing the internet.
>> When I am doing some other work like word processing or reading documents
>> off line, it is not slow.
>> This problem has nothing to do with the websites, as I don't have this slow
>>
>> problems online with JAWS.  I use a demo copy of JAWS.
>> Secondly, when I visit a website, or even some times when I launch a web
>> browser like internet explorer or firefox, I hear "internet explorer
>> unknown" or "firefox unknown" and the screen goes quiet, and when I press
>> the arrow down key, that is what I keep hearing.  Some times, when I am on a
>>
>> site, or trying to open a site, the screen reader crashes, and disables the
>>
>> computer itself.  I just have to shut it down, and then restart it all over
>>
>> again.
>> Does anyone understand the problem I am having with my NVDA screen reader?
>> I use windows7 32 bit on a laptop.
>> I have the latest update of the screen reader.
>> Hope to read a helpful response.
>> I am Ibrahim.
>>
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2019 1:11 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is NVDA Really Dying?

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:49 PM, zahra wrote:

i really hate narrator.
do you remember narrator of windows xp which i use?

Which has absolutely, positively nothing to do with Narrator as implemented today.  Just as the Windows Defender that's on XP has absolutely nothing to do with the Windows Defender, now Windows Security as of Version 1809, on Windows 10 today.

I have come to accept that, for whatever reason, you are clinging to XP like it's God's gift to mankind.  What I cannot accept is making any comments about any software that happens to share the same name, but nothing else, with the long unsupported Windows XP and it's components.   

Talking about these as if they are even similar is senseless.
 
--

Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763  

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

          ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

I knew about the feature in JAWS but I never understood what it would be used for.  Where would it be used?

 

Also, NVDA needs a way, I only saw this ability in the old ASAP DOS screen-reader, to define a column so you can move with the up and down arrow keys or use read to end and only have a certain column of the screen read.  Let's say you have a document with three columns and you want to arrow through one column from top to bottom.  This can't be done now.  It would be useful in some documents and it would be useful on some web sites where tables are laid out visually to look like tables but have no formatting to tell a screen-reader that a table exists.

 

Gene. 

----- Original Message -----

From: Tyler Spivey

Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2019 8:43 AM

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Subject: Re: [nvda] Reading parts of the cursor's line

Then you want my addon.
It's not on the addon site, but should do what you want.

https://github.com/tspivey/partialLines/releases/download/v0.1/partialLines-0.1.nvda-addon

On 2/7/2019 6:12 AM, Robert Geoffroy wrote:
> No problem to read the current line. I often just need reading the line before and/or after the cursor. For instance, with Jaws, insert+7 enable to read the line before the cursor and insert+9 the line after the cursor ! I'd like to do the same with NVDA.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] De la part de molly the blind tech lover
> Envoyé : jeudi 7 février 2019 15:00
> À : nvda@nvda.groups.io
> Objet : Re: [nvda] Reading parts of the cursor's line
>
> Hi.
> Try pressing NVDA plus L. NVDA will read the current line. Press NVDA plus down arrow. NVDA will read the next line.
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Molly
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Robert Geoffroy
> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2019 7:30 AM
> To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
> Subject: [nvda] Reading parts of the cursor's line
>
> Hi, everyone,
>
> This is one first question: is there any way to read the current line before the cursor and after the cursor as well?
>
> I'm discovering NVDA with enjoyment!
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
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>

Thank you guys for your encouragement! I would definitely initiate learning Braille as soon as possible. As many of you have suggested, even if I don't become proficient enough to read books, I would definitely be able to read notes and make presentations more efficiently. Also, I would like to clarify, many of you talked about contracted Braille. Is that similar to learning short hand for the sighted people?

Once again, thank you all for your feedback and support.
--
Regards,
Sociohack

This is what happens when you don't read the whole thread. I know all this stuff about the nature and configuration of the military/amateur radio clock time VS local and civilian time.  I was asking the guy who said that the Clock Add on for NVDA what happened when the clock reached 1 minute after 0 hours.


If you had read his original message, you would have seen that this add on was wrongfully saying 2400 hours when the clock reached 0 hours or 12 AM local time.  I asked him what it did after it had reached that point and he answered me that indeed it kept wrongfully identifying 0 hours as 24 hours as in: 2401, 2402, 2403 and so on.



On 2/8/2019 2:11 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:

No, 24 hour clocks start from 00.

Then its 001 right through to 059.

Then its 100-11200.

000 to 1200 is the same as  am where the 12 hour clock is applied without the extra 0s.

After that its 1300 right to 2359.

24 hour is a military type timescale and can handle just about any timezone.

Where its not critical for normal people in general 12 hours is enough and you start from 1 again, but all clocks are 24 hours they just convert to 12.

The first analog clocks were only 12 hours, I don't know much more than that.

But I know a couple of audio and ham opps that have and continue to enjoy all the time codes and sequences both military and otherwise and have even wrote simulators and have experienced and have demos of the actual military clocks and those first ones were quite large.

The time servers you sync your time to are most likely 24hour.

The reason we civilians use 12 hours is its just easier to handle, but 24 hours is the correct timescale so its worth knowing both or at least the existance of both.

In general unless you are in military, radio, or need to do international business where you need to meet at a certain time you won't need to worry about it generally especially if you do it locally.

If you need to tell someone in a different zone, then you need to refference at some point a universal timezone which is always something like gmt I think could be slightly different, I only know its a us zone and its always 24 hours.

At any rate, even if you never ever have to refference it yourself you may get a refference and have to convert it back for your own zone.

That is basicaly the end of what I have managed to gleen from those I know, as I said earlier I know people that have actually seen the old military clocks and have even toured their instalations and are crazy on that sort of thing.

Its a bit to complex for me to be honest but for the enginiering types  about its used a lot especially if their is interest about.

If you are a ham radio op and there may be a few on here, then you probably know all this and probably know where I am buggering it up to, I can't pretend I know enough of it to fully understand it.

For most of us all you need to be able to do is convert between 12 and 24 hours if you get a time or need to convert a time period.

For that all you need to know is that 24 hours is 23 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds long.

12 hours starts at 12 and ends at 12.

Thats the only difference you need to know about.

For the rest, its not important to know all 30+ timezones.

What will probably happen these days at any rate is if you do whatever you need to do you would have your computer or phone or both set with clocks of where you would do business or whatever and it would handle things for you.

www.thinkman.com has dimention4, that should handle syncing, its old and hasn't been updated in ages, but then it doesn't need to be, as long as we have time servers its fine.

To be honest, the databases don't change that much, the time clocks are located in military bases or universities.

There may be multiple sources.

I have 4 major clocks in my country.

nntp is the main time extention its acurate and quite fast its relyable.

You may also see standard web http servers and may see a few of those.

Now, for whatever reason to set a timeserver on the web is dead easy and doesn't seem to cost, but using the dedicated time extention nntp does cost so only the big military and universities use it or even both.

nntp like pop3 is ancient, there is a lot of stuff via the web now.

NNtp is also costly to run, again you can do all your own research, you can start at www.worldclock.com, but its important because you will need to select the fastest location in dimention4 or other synced system client.

As a general rule dimention4 will start in a military base in a central region of the us but you should select the closest location so know your citties and pick the closest place to get speed.



On 8/02/2019 6:58 PM, Ron Canazzi wrote:

What happens when it reaches the first minute of the new day? Does it say 0 hours 1 minute or does it say 24 hours and 1 minute?


On 2/8/2019 12:04 AM, Ian Westerland wrote:

Hi! I have set up the clock in NVDA and am wondering why the clock goes to 24:0 after 23:59. Usually a 24 hour clock goes back to zero after 23:59.

Cheers.


Ian Westerland