November 2013 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Linux graphical desktop
by David Mehler 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Hello, This question is in regards Linux graphical desktops. I'm wondering which aside from the gnome is accessible, KDE, XFCE, etc? Thanks. Dave.

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Accessible boot loader
by David Mehler 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Hello, Does anyone remember a while back, maybe they still do, OpenSuse had an accessible boot loader? It would say via speech output what item you were on. I'm wanting to get that or an alternative? I was wondering if anyone knew of one? Thanks. Dave.

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Linux graphical desktop
by David Mehler 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Hello, This question is in regards Linux graphical desktops. I'm wondering which aside from the gnome is accessible, KDE, XFCE, etc? Thanks. Dave.

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ok, blunt question time
by Ryan Shugart 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Hi: Right now, we're still running SCCM 2007 SP2. I find it quite easy to get around, and I can do what I need to do with little problems. However, we're two versions behind and I'm starting to get a lot of pressure to upgrade us to SCCM 2012R2, the latest version. I'm playing with 2012R2, and while the accessibility is better than 2012, I still think I'll run into problems. Its very clunky to get around, some things such as reviewing deployment status don't seem possible, and it just seems to me that upgrading us would be a big accessibility step backwards. However, on the other hand, I'm learning 2012R2 as I go. So, for those of you in 2012R2 environments, how many users do you manage, and do you wish you'd stayed with 2007 or was moving to 2012R2 not that bad? I know there's some CLI tools for 2012R2 but not how extensive they are, I don't know if I could admin 2012R2 completely from the command line or would still need the GUI. Thanks. Ryan

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ok, blunt question time
by Ryan Shugart 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Hi: Right now, we're still running SCCM 2007 SP2. I find it quite easy to get around, and I can do what I need to do with little problems. However, we're two versions behind and I'm starting to get a lot of pressure to upgrade us to SCCM 2012R2, the latest version. I'm playing with 2012R2, and while the accessibility is better than 2012, I still think I'll run into problems. Its very clunky to get around, some things such as reviewing deployment status don't seem possible, and it just seems to me that upgrading us would be a big accessibility step backwards. However, on the other hand, I'm learning 2012R2 as I go. So, for those of you in 2012R2 environments, how many users do you manage, and do you wish you'd stayed with 2007 or was moving to 2012R2 not that bad? I know there's some CLI tools for 2012R2 but not how extensive they are, I don't know if I could admin 2012R2 completely from the command line or would still need the GUI. Thanks. Ryan

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pendrivelinux?
by David Mehler 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Hello, Is anyone using pendrivelinux: www.pendrivelinux.com to make multi boot thumb drives? If so are the OS's you get accessible, come up with speech? A friend of mine is using this, and he says he uses the YUMI loader, I'm assuming that's a boot loader. I would like to do this myself as I can see the potential in it, but I would like to know which options I'm selecting on boot and then to have the subsequent operating systems come up talking, for example Orca on Linux. If anyone has any pointers or has this working let me know. Thanks. Dave.

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pendrivelinux?
by David Mehler 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Hello, Is anyone using pendrivelinux: www.pendrivelinux.com to make multi boot thumb drives? If so are the OS's you get accessible, come up with speech? A friend of mine is using this, and he says he uses the YUMI loader, I'm assuming that's a boot loader. I would like to do this myself as I can see the potential in it, but I would like to know which options I'm selecting on boot and then to have the subsequent operating systems come up talking, for example Orca on Linux. If anyone has any pointers or has this working let me know. Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] FW: How to sell yourself to employers as a blind, but capable technologist
by Chris Smart 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Thanks for all of that Vic.

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imaging windows 8
by David Mehler 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Hello, I've got a couple of windows 8 boxes I'd like to image. I'm wanting to do a complete image, not just the data, and use it in the future in case of drive hardware failure. My goal take the image, probably from outside of windows itself from talking media? then in the event of hardware failure, buy a new drive, put it in, restore the image, and give the box back to it's owner and go on with things. In the really old days I used to use Ghost from floppy disk and have it run from batch file. I've tried image for windows from a win7PE boot environment and although that worked in creating the image, even put it where I wanted it, it wouldn't boot on restore. Is there a trick to imaging nowadays? Recommendations? Thanks. Dave.

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imaging windows 8
by David Mehler 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Hello, I've got a couple of windows 8 boxes I'd like to image. I'm wanting to do a complete image, not just the data, and use it in the future in case of drive hardware failure. My goal take the image, probably from outside of windows itself from talking media? then in the event of hardware failure, buy a new drive, put it in, restore the image, and give the box back to it's owner and go on with things. In the really old days I used to use Ghost from floppy disk and have it run from batch file. I've tried image for windows from a win7PE boot environment and although that worked in creating the image, even put it where I wanted it, it wouldn't boot on restore. Is there a trick to imaging nowadays? Recommendations? Thanks. Dave.

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