December 2008 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Reminder: Coming Up on Main Menu in a Little Under 9 Hours - CAPTCHA!
by Darrell Shandrow 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hello Everyone, This announcement represents a friendly reminder for all of you to listen to an important, two hour live Main Menu coming right up later today. Coming up on an exciting two hour live program, we hear from a panel of technology industry experts all about CAPTCHA (visual verification) and other forms of visual authentication, accessibility challenges to existing visual verification systems, the balance between human rights and security, existing solutions for providing reasonable accomodations to visual authentication and emerging accessibility solutions. We are proud to introduce an impressive panel of experts and their primary areas of focus: * Matt May from the Adobe Systems Accessibility Team will discuss his 2005 W3C note on the inaccessibility of CAPTCHA. * Luis von Ahn from ReCAPTCHA at Carnegie Mellon University will describe their accessible solution. * Steve Dispensa from PhoneFactor will tell us all about an innovative, telephone based two-factor authentication system. The accessibility of CAPTCHA (visual verification schemes on the web) and other similar forms of visual authentication is a topic of utmost importance to the blind, visually impaired and others with print reading disabilities. Real, universally accessible solutions are going to require significant amounts of effort, good will and out-of-the-box thinking. We encourage active participation by the blind community, members on all sides of the issue from the mainstream technology industry and those sighted people who care about what happens to us. Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333. You may email your questions to: mainmenu(a)acbradio.org You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu(a)acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe(a)googlegroups.com Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu Main Menu Live - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_… Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow The Main Menu Production Team

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importing public self signed certificates via GPO
by Dave 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

Hello, This might be a simple question, but googling hasn't revealed the answer. I've got a web server that uses ssl to protect areas. This ssl is enabled by a self signed certificate that i issued from my own CA. I can manually import the CA's public certificate in to each machine then each system will trust the site and not pop up a warning dialog box about an untrusted cert. What i was wondering is if it would be possible for a GPO to be able to distribute the public cert to all domain computers. Thanks. Dave.

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WSUS 3.0sp1 accessibility?
by Dave 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had setup and was using windows server update services v3.0sp1? I was using 2, then the update to 3 happened and it's wizard seems very unaccessible. I was wondering if anyone had workarounds? This is with jfw9. Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell RAID to SATA
by Andrew Hodgson 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hi, Actually there are many different controllers that Dell put into their servers, depending on what you wanted at the time. It is possible that you could disable this in the BIOS, even with the add-on controller, by changing the disk mode from RAID to SATA, though I have tended to only do this with higher end Poweredge models. On another tack, why are you trying to get rid of the RAID? Thanks. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Frank Ventura [Frank.Ventura(a)littlebreezes.com] Sent: 29 December 2008 12:58 To: Andrew Hodgson Subject: RE: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell RAID to SATA Hi Andrew, I believe the Dell has their own branded 5i/R RAID controller installed. It is an exspansion slot on the motherboard, not intergral to the motherboard. Thanks Frank -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson [mailto:andrew@hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 2:36 AM To: Frank Ventura Subject: RE: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell RAID to SATA hi, do you know which RAID controller you have in the machine currently? thanks. andrew. --- original message --- From: "Frank Ventura" <Frank.Ventura(a)littlebreezes.com> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell RAID to SATA Date: 29th December 2008 Time: 4:38:34 am Hi all we have a Dell Poweredge SC440 which currently has a factory RAID controller with two 250gb drives in a RAID 0 configuration. We would like to eliminate the RAID configuration and boot from a SATA hard disk. What is involved in this? Is it as simple as removing the RAID controller and installing a SATA controller and attaching it to a SATA hard disk? Are there any changes to the BIOS that must be made? Thanks Frank _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.1/1867 - Release Date: 12/28/2008 2:23 PM

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell RAID to SATA
by Andrew Hodgson 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hi, Actually there are many different controllers that Dell put into their servers, depending on what you wanted at the time. It is possible that you could disable this in the BIOS, even with the add-on controller, by changing the disk mode from RAID to SATA, though I have tended to only do this with higher end Poweredge models. On another tack, why are you trying to get rid of the RAID? Thanks. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Frank Ventura [Frank.Ventura(a)littlebreezes.com] Sent: 29 December 2008 12:58 To: Andrew Hodgson Subject: RE: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell RAID to SATA Hi Andrew, I believe the Dell has their own branded 5i/R RAID controller installed. It is an exspansion slot on the motherboard, not intergral to the motherboard. Thanks Frank -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson [mailto:andrew@hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 2:36 AM To: Frank Ventura Subject: RE: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell RAID to SATA hi, do you know which RAID controller you have in the machine currently? thanks. andrew. --- original message --- From: "Frank Ventura" <Frank.Ventura(a)littlebreezes.com> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell RAID to SATA Date: 29th December 2008 Time: 4:38:34 am Hi all we have a Dell Poweredge SC440 which currently has a factory RAID controller with two 250gb drives in a RAID 0 configuration. We would like to eliminate the RAID configuration and boot from a SATA hard disk. What is involved in this? Is it as simple as removing the RAID controller and installing a SATA controller and attaching it to a SATA hard disk? Are there any changes to the BIOS that must be made? Thanks Frank _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.1/1867 - Release Date: 12/28/2008 2:23 PM

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell RAID to SATA
by Andrew Hodgson 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

hi, do you know which RAID controller you have in the machine currently? thanks. andrew. --- original message --- From: "Frank Ventura" <Frank.Ventura(a)littlebreezes.com> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell RAID to SATA Date: 29th December 2008 Time: 4:38:34 am

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Dell RAID to SATA
by Frank Ventura 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hi all we have a Dell Poweredge SC440 which currently has a factory RAID controller with two 250gb drives in a RAID 0 configuration. We would like to eliminate the RAID configuration and boot from a SATA hard disk. What is involved in this? Is it as simple as removing the RAID controller and installing a SATA controller and attaching it to a SATA hard disk? Are there any changes to the BIOS that must be made? Thanks Frank

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WindowsServer2003-KB914961-SP2-x86
by Stewart Hamling 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

Hello All, Background to my enquiry I am attempting to setup a small home network comprising 4 PCs. Three of these PCs are running W XP professional, the fourth machine is running W Server 2003 with SP2. When attempting to update the server from Microsoft Windows update site, I receive error number 0x8024402C. I am considering installing WindowsServer2003-KB914961-SP2-x86, but I am not sure how to verify that it has not already been installed. I have looked under control panel add-remove programs, it does not appear there. Is there a more certain way to check whether or not this patch is already installed? Has anyone else installed this patch and have there been any adverse outcomes? Any thoughts would be very much appreciated. Thank you and regards, Stewart.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] knoppix with speech
by John G. Heim 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Kernel.org never supported speakup. Well, it might now but that's fairly recent. Knoppix and grml used to install the speakup patches you could download from linux-speakup.org -- same as anyone else bulding a custom speakup kernel. That was a nice thing they did. They may still be doing that. I've been trying to rescue a machine by booting from a grml CD the entire time we've been discussing this. I've been taking time out from that job to answer your questions. But I have a hardware synth. And I'm not sure what version of grml I'm using. Anyway, it's not that hard. Goggle is your friend. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" <dave.mehler(a)gmail.com> To: "'John G. Heim'" <jheim(a)math.wisc.edu> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 3:37 PM Subject: RE: [Blind-sysadmins] knoppix with speech > Hi, > Thanks. I don't have a hardware synth, unfortunately. I've thought > about getting one but with the way things are that's going to be a good > while off. > If you've got procedures and urls for these distros so i could test > them out i'd appreciate that. > With speakup i thought they used a custom kernel, but as a result i > thought i read that kernel.org dropped them, so how do they supply speech > now? > Thanks. > Dave. > > > > David Mehler, MCP, Network+, A+ > -----Original Message----- > From: John G. Heim [mailto:jheim@math.wisc.edu] > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 3:33 PM > To: dave.mehler(a)gmail.com; Blind sysadmins list > Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] knoppix with speech > > By "drop in" you mean they come up talking even if you press nothing on > the > keyboard? No, they don't do that. With ubuntu, you have to press a few hot > keys. With grml, you have to enter parameters at the boot prompt and then > run a script when it finishes booting. > > Actually, I haven't downloaded grml for months. By now they may have > modified it. Speakup has been modified so you don't need a custom kernel > any > more. So now there's no reason to have to enter boot parameters. Having > to > enter both boot parameters and run a script was brain damaged anyway > because > they could have run the script automatically and had it do nothing if the > software speech kernel module was not loaded. > > I don't know how to remaster any of these distros so that software speech > comes up automatically. I tried to modify grml to speak automatically but > I > couldn't get it to work. That is probably because I couldn't understand > the > grml init.d stuff. It was crazy for them to mess with that stuff. But it's > not at all like standard init.d scripts. > > It's fairly easy to remaster either knoppix or grml so that your hardware > synth is used. All you have to do is edit the linuxiso.cfg file and add > the > boot parameter for your synth. > > I can give you a URL for an iso file for grml remastered to use a > doubletalk > hardware synth if that will help you any. The file isn't available right > now > but I could put it somewhere that you could download it if you want it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave" <dave.mehler(a)gmail.com> > To: "'Blind sysadmins list'" <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 3:07 PM > Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] knoppix with speech > > >> Hi, >> Thanks for your response. What i was looking for was for a two >> situation solution. The first and the reason i asked about knoppix was a >> drop in CD that came up with speech, software speech, in a graphical >> interface, a CLI would also work, that i could use for diagnostic, >> backup, >> and troubleshooting purposes. Are any of these distros drop in and up >> talking or can they be remastered to do so? >> Thanks. >> Dave. >> >> >> >> David Mehler, MCP, Network+, A+ >> -----Original Message----- >> From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org >> [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of >> John >> G. Heim >> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 3:03 PM >> To: Blind sysadmins list >> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] knoppix with speech >> >> Knoppix has support for speakup built into the kernel. I don't know if it >> comes with software speech but you can use any knoppix CD if you have a >> hardware synth. >> >> For software speech , I would use grml or ubuntu. Ubuntu gives you speech >> via orca in a graphical user environment. Grml gives you speech via >> speakup >> in a character interface. >> >> I use all 3 on different occasions but I probably use grml the most. You >> can >> google for the addresses of their web sites. They're easy to find. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dave" <dave.mehler(a)gmail.com> >> To: "'Blind sysadmins list'" <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> >> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 2:34 PM >> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] knoppix with speech >> >> >>> Hello, >>> Has anyone got knoppix with speech or a howto to make one? I'm >>> wanting to boot a box with an accessible distro then install another >>> which >>> does not have terminal or live support. >>> Thanks. >>> Dave. >>> >>> >>> David Mehler, MCP, Network+, A+ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Blind-sysadmins mailing list >>> Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org >>> http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blind-sysadmins mailing list >> Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org >> http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blind-sysadmins mailing list >> Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org >> http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins >> >> > > >

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knoppix with speech
by Dave 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hello, Has anyone got knoppix with speech or a howto to make one? I'm wanting to boot a box with an accessible distro then install another which does not have terminal or live support. Thanks. Dave. David Mehler, MCP, Network+, A+

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