July 2011 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

network cables, do you make your own?
by Zameer Mahomed 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Hi listers, ok, if this is inappropriate, you have all the right to boot me off this list. But I write this because I'm just burning with curiosity, I have no other visually impaired person to ask, and wanted to know if any visually impaired people can do this in someway or another. So, do you make your own ethernet cables? I'm doing N+ and I know we'd have a problem when it comes to putting the colours in the right pairs but what about cutting, crimping etc? Unfortunately I'm studying this thing by myself so no practical assistance here. Hence one of the many reasons for asking. regards,

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How Do I fill my E-mail address In Reach Edit:
by Mubanga Chipalo 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Dear Listers, I need your guidance on the following questions: First of all When I come across an e-mail address with reach edit, I don't know how to fill my E-mail address; Therefore I would like to know how you do it. secondly, Kindly provide me with E-mail addresses where to find computer braille books so that I can buy them.

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Valuable pleasment for tutorial how to use remote desktop like a visually impaired user
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

GOod afternoon, I AM very glad, that i can read somethink about using remote desktop with screen reader. Please, is there any tutorial about this how to work with this feature with screen reader? How to start remote desktop in WIndows 7 operating system? Jaws is using Tandem, but i expect, that this feature is usable only if other user is also having Jaws awith Tandem application and The best is also The same version of Jaws. Team wiever is not accessible while triing to browse The remote computer screen. Any link to some tutorial or kind message about is is very welcomed. Thank You very much. I AM very appreciating all member of this very kind mailing list. -- Mgr. Janusz Chmiel

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somethink about Windows operating systems and virtualisation
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Good afternoon, I would like to also inform You, that Vmwareplayer for Windows is supporting very excellent fully unattended feature. It is very simple to fill out all required information and original CDS can be perfectly installed to The virtual machines created by Vmware foR Windows. It is even possible to run those virtual machines from some Linux live CDS. Or by using some Linux live bootable USB stick. The disadvantage of this procedure is The need of big amount of RAM awailable, and, and this is very sad, user can not access The other harddrive than The virtual harddrive, YOu can not access NTFS internal harddrive and use my computer or Windows Explorer for files browsing. Vmware player will always prevent You from directly accessing The internal harddrives. To be more exact. You can for example use Ubuntu live CD and remastersys for creating remastered Ubuntu with Vmwareplayer on it. You can use external USB harddrive and You can put previously created virtual machine files, which have been created previously by using Vmwareplayer for Windows. The issue is, that if virtual machine will be successfully loaded, if You will use bootable USB flashdisk for loading Linux live system with preinstalled vmwareplayer for Linux on it, YOu will be able to run Windows XP virtual machine from USB harddrive by using Yours loaded bootable USB Linux live CD. You can even specifi on Vmwareplayer for Linux, that You want to share The whole root folder of Your NTFS harddrive with WIndows files on it. Yes, this will work, but Windows XP will recognize this device like a network drive, and You must use Linux live CD with NTFS-3G support to access NTFs volumes by using running Windows in virtual machine. The advantage is, that You can use WIndows Explorer for browsing NTFS volumes, The disadvantage is, that You will still USE Linux NTFS-3G for accessing NTFS, by The other words, WIndows core will not directly access Your harddrive. This is sad, because You can not use MIcrosoft disk defrag, or You can not use chkdsk /f /r c: command. Because disk is seen by WIndows XP like a network drive. If You will disable this feature in Vmwareplayer for Linux, so The folder will not be see like a network drive, YOu will not be able to see The drive on Windows at all. The advantages of Vmware solution. Theoretically, visually impaired user would run previously preinstalled Windows operating system by using many various computers, because Linux and Vmwareplayer for Linux will autodetect The required hardware. So if sound will be awailable in The Linux live distro with vmwareplayer, Windows will very probably work. Next advantage is, that user can browse The NTFS drive by using my computer or windows Explorer, can copy The files between NTFS folders from running WIndows. Disadvantages. The best results will be awailable while using computer equipped with modern CPU, which is supporting The virtualisation technology. There is also The issue with RAM and that You can not simply add Vmware related big files to The Linux live CD and simply compress it to The squashfs file system. Only while running it by using external USB harddrive, not USB flash drive, or by using IDE or sata harddisk will produce usable environment. If on future will exist some virtualisation solution which will enable users to access internal harddrives without using filesharing feature of Vmware, it will very probably be a next revolution. Ofcourse, there is licensing issue, but this can be solved. Linux live distros are able to autodetecd many various sound carts. Windows7 is including support for many sound carts, but if Microsoft will not allow us to officially use those drivers also by using Windows Pe, it will be only our dream. Wine is also not The solution, screnn reader can not interact with several applications running by using Wine. -- Mgr. Janusz Chmiel

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Oh, there is The download link for JUDE USB
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

http://sourceforge.net/projects/judeusb/files/JUDE%20RC2/RC2/JUDE.zip/downl… -- Mgr. Janusz Chmiel

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JUDE USB wizard download link
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Dear users, I would like to provide You The download link for JudeuSB Wizard. IT is very sad, that integrated .exe application, which is displaiing The start menu is not supporting The keyboard shortcuts. The Tieman USB braille Voyager device driver is perfectly working in this environment. NVDA can be really started without error message and even NVDA shortcut for displaiing menu is accessible, also dialog windows created by using Wxpython Unicode are working perfectly. The task would be to please MR Jaunty Lovel, so he would modifi The source code of his application for creating start menu so keyboard shortcuts would be awailable for us. Next task would be try to run Brltty for Windows as a service, sure also place the needed Braille Python bingings so NVDA would communicate with Brltty for Windows. I think, that also special USB filters would be installed. Drivers can be added during The creation process of bootable USB. User must also download Microsoft Windows AIK. But everythink would work. BUt keyboard shortcuts are The big issue. -- Mgr. Janusz Chmiel

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Windows XP live CD with sound support again
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

Dear members of this conference, I would like to inform You about The possibility for creating Windows XP live CD. I have been also tried The WIN PE based on WIndows Vista core, i have tested excellent tool for sighted users named JUDE USB wizard. Unfortunately, sound support is not included in WIndows PE based on WIndows Vista, and i think, that sound support will not be awailable also while using WIndows PE based on Windows 7 kernel. But there is other choice. Using Windows XP and Bardspe and, and this is very important, try to use The following project. It is awailable on The following address. http://www.llanelly.com/downloads.html If You will download The following .zip archive http://www.llanelly.com/downloads/file/11-xpebuilder.html And if You will finish The installation, You will find The file msaudio.inf in The following folder: \XPEBuilder\Plugin\300_drivers\oem-ms-drivers The task is, where to add .inf and .sys drivers, on which folder? And if it is simply possible to add new device driver to The msaudio.inf file. NVDA latest development and all released version are fully compatible with Windows PE environment, there is also braille device directly supported by NVDA without need to installing it's driver. So if somebody would have The time, I AM suggesting to integrate some sound driver to The .inf file from The XPE Builder v0.1.0.146 project. There are many various preconfigured and preinstalled plugins, i AM only wondering, if visually impaired users will be able to use included alternative shell. Powermenu is perfectly accessible, it's whole start menu, so this would be a perfect shell alternative, which would be used in The resulted XP live media. There is also ammazing solution, visually impaired system administrator could buy The USB sound cart, which can be detected by WIndows XP and this driver could be incorporated to The resulted WIndows XP live CD. Because integrating many sound drivers would consume many space and i AM afraid, that algorithms for searching The sound hardware and triing to include so many drivers would break The load process of The live environment. Brltty will not be easy to integrate, because services feature is not simply to setup in live mode. -- Mgr. Janusz Chmiel

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