Windows - Graham Perrin on Diigo

11 Aug 09

Indirect referral from http://www.diigo.com/06tj6 - grahamperrin on 2009-08-11
A day or so ago I installed this suite of applications on a new netbook running Windows XP, used by my friend Paul who is visually impaired. When I get feedback from him, I'll probably add a comment here. - grahamperrin on 2009-08-11

WebbIE browser, Accessible RSS news reader, Podcatcher and more
WebbIE is a web browser
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- It comes with the Accessible programs
- Together they provide a way to access websites and other great things online - and they are all free!

LockHunter is a free 64/32 bit tool to delete files blocked by any processes

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file folder directory unlock Windows 2009

Re Rajkumar's comment, http://message.diigo.com/message/584600 - grahamperrin on 2009-08-11
For Windows only, not for other operating systems. - grahamperrin on 2009-08-11
In my experience, administering AFP and SMB/CIFS services, locks were most often due to client-side problems with Microsoft Office.

Users were often unaware of the problems; all signs were that they had simply closed a file after working with it, but the Office application failed to unlock the file and/or its relatives — even after the application was quit and the client OS shut down.

In most such situations — without appropriate signals from the client — it was proper for the file service to disallow normal routes to unlocking. - grahamperrin on 2009-08-11

file unlocker
Windows

28 Jul 09

Microsoft Releases Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: Industry partners are finalizing new products in time for the worldwide launch.

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Microsoft Windows Windows 7 release PR 2009

Microsoft Releases Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2
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- Windows 7 will be generally available to customers around the world on October 22

26 Jul 09

ShareSource » Fuse4Win

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Fuse4Win FUSE Windows 2009

fuse4win
FUSE for Windows
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- has not yet added any
  
  files to the ShareSource file management system

Filesystems using Dokan — Dokan | Google Groups

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Dokan FUSE Windows summary 2009

Filesystems using Dokan library
FUSE4Win
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- JDokan
- MetaFS
- OberFS
- StorageBox
- WinFuse
- XtreemFS
- YieldFS

The next release of Dokan library
April 6th, 2009
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- development of Dokan library is not stopped
- http://code.google.com/p/dokan/source/list
  - http://code.google.com/p/dokan/source/list - on 2009-07-26
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- fixed many Office 2007 specific problems
- I want to release new version soon
- good job!
- great work
- great effort.
  
  This has been a long time coming for Windows.
- automatically mount SFTP filesystems on Windows startup
- python bindings
- A draft python binding for dokan in google code can be find in pywinfuse project: http://code.google.com/p/pywinfuse/
- Please read the discussion group

Dokan » About

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Dokan FUSE Windows 2009

Referred from http://xavimiro.blogspot.com/2009/03/dokan-filesystem-in-userspace-fuse-for.html - grahamperrin on 2009-07-26
Referred from http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5116 - grahamperrin on 2009-07-26
Referred from http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fcode.google.com%2Fp%2Fpywinfuse?tab=comment - grahamperrin on 2009-07-26

for windows
user mode file system
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- using Dokan library, you can create your own file systems very easily without writing device driver
- similar to FUSE
  - MacFUSE — Google Code | Diigo - on 2009-07-26
  - FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace | Diigo - on 2009-07-26
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- The Dokan library works as a proxy and looks like a ‘pipe’

FUSE4Win: Summary

The FUSE4Win library uses the code from Dokan library: http://dokan-dev.net/en/

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FUSE Windows FUSE4Win library Dokan 2009

Referred from http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5116 - grahamperrin on 2009-07-26
Dokan » About | Diigo - grahamperrin on 2009-07-26

24 Jul 09

Apple has 91% of market for $1,000+ PCs, says NPD | Betanews

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Mac OS X market PC Microsoft Windows premium value Apple Inc. 2009

Referred from http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2009/07/24/apple-dominates-higher-end-pc-market-revenue/trackback/ - grahamperrin on 2009-07-24

Apple has 91% of market for $1,000+ PCs
n June, average selling prices for all PCs sold at US retail was $701
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- $690 for desktops and $703 for notebooks
- For all Windows PCs, ASP was $515 in June
- For Macs: $1,400
- Desktop Windows PC ASP: $489. Mac desktops: $1,398
- Windows notebook ASP was $520, or $569
- Mac laptops: $1,400
- Apple chooses not to compete at lower prices
- Mac OS X, iLife and hardware design differentiate Macs
- Most Windows PCs come with Vista, which has gotten lots of bad press
- Design priority
- super long battery life for MacBook Pro
- "Laptop Hunters" commercials, which sought to demonstrate the value of Windows portables compared to Macs
  - I never saw one, never even heard of one. Maybe Microsoft didn't run these commercials in the UK. - on 2009-07-24
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- about value, and at premium prices
- the Laptop Hunters campaign is a failure
- more US retail buyers see more value in Macs in the premium price range

23 Jul 09

Sandboxie - Sandbox software for application isolation and secure Web browsing

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Windows sandbox sandpit 2009

19 Jul 09

PDF can be a nightmare for me and others with disabilities-but WebbIE's free 'Accessible PDF' may help | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

WebbIE,Assessible PDF,PDF

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e-books disability design accessibility WebbIE Assessible PDF Windows Portable Document Format 2009

For easier reading of PDF and other formats on Mac OS X: I recommend Tofu.

http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Famarsagoo.info%2Ftofu%2F?uname=grahamperrin&tab=comment - grahamperrin on 2009-07-19

PDF can be a nightmare
many e-books are not very useful
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- navigate
- PDFs can be like potluck
- Accessible PDF Reader
- “a Web browser for blind and visually impaired people.”
- with Adobe Reader
- screen reader, JAWS 9.0, a text-to-speech program
- sounds like a robot
- With my nose pressed to the screen
- Unlabeled graphic =+36756? 4. Image.gif.
- all I heard was blank, blank, blank, blank
- Tangling with Adobe Reader
- fight with Adobe to just make it read the table of contents
- so frustrating
- deleted the book
- honestly giving me a headache
- I vowed never to read e-books again!
- WebbIE to the rescue
- “Accessible PDF”
- part of the accessible programs package
- Easy to use
- simpler in terms of navigation than in Adobe Reader
- change the font size and color
- menus are nicely laid out
- clean and organized
- Accessible PDF could be still better
- No reflow function!
  - Flow is great in Tofu on Mac OS X. - on 2009-07-19
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- convert images to text
- If an author of an e-book has provided Alt text descriptions to images
- read documents from Web pages
  - Text-to-speech is integral to Mac OS X. - on 2009-07-19
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- just the keyboard and the buttons
- easy to navigate
- make blind people jump and scream in delight
- bad tagging
- Accessible PDF Reader displaying a document with a normal font and contrast.
- Accessible PDF showing a document with high contrast, yellow text on black, in a regular window.

03 Jun 09

Microsoft Acquires Winternals

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Microsoft Windows NTFS MFT fragment 2009

Winternals offerings are no longer available for purchase

How to use Defrag Manager to defragment a computer that does not start because of excessive system file fragmentation

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Microsoft Windows NTFS MFT fragment 2009

Winternals Defrag Manager
- … no longer available for purchase. See
  http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/winternals.mspx - on 2009-06-03
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How NTFS reserves space for its Master File Table (MFT)

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Microsoft Windows NTFS MFT fragment 2009

utilities
that defragment NTFS volumes cannot move MFT entries
fragmentation of the MFT can impact performance
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- NTFS reserves 12.5 percent of the volume for exclusive use of the
  MFT
- unless the remainder of the volume is completely used up
  - So: it is very important to always have a reasonable amount of free space on your Windows XP startup disk. - on 2009-06-03
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- Disk
  Defragmenter displays "green"
- MFT, pagefile.sys
- "MFT Zone" or reserved space
  for "MFT Expansion"
- The defragmentation report
- not mention the MFT Zone