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Installing an ssd drive, partition and operating system, unattended
by David Mehler 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hello, I've got a new SSD for my system. I am wanting to install win7 on it. I've read and heard from others that partition alignment on these drives is critical to getting optimum system performance. I've read that gparted can do this, align on zero boundaries? might be it? I've got a grml disk that I can boot live and have it do the gparted, is it simply a matter of creating the partition with gparted setting it's type to ntfs then using an fsck.ntfs to format it? I then want to do my win7 unattended install. I've got an xml file but it erases all partitions, and formats, which I get would defeat my gparted, I'm wanting to not do this and just have the unattend file install on to the previously created ntfs partition. But that also creates a small boot partition, so I'm wondering do I have to make this? If anyone has done this please let me know, i'd like to get the max performance out of my drive and have read that improperly partitioning can lead to extra ware on them. This is my first ssd. Also, how do you separate, or do you separate, programs from system data when using ssd's? Thanks. Dave.

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Red hat enterprise certifications.
by Sean Murphy 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Hi team. Has anyone sat the Red Hat Enterprise certifications or use the Red Hat enterprise 6.2 OS? If so, did you use Orca, Speakup or what screen reader did you use to permit console access at the CLI or Gnome? What barriers did you come across? Any help would be grate. Sean

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Teamviewer with NVDA
by Barry Toner 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Folks, I've successfully been able to control a remote computer using Teamviewer v8 with speech feedback from NVDA, with some issues that can hopefully be overcome The setup was minimal. Install TeamViewer on both systems, with no special configurations. Connect to the remote computer. In my experiment I had NVDA running already, but you could simply ask an end-user to start it from an icon on the desktop. When I pressed WinKey E, TeamViewer recognised this as a keystroke and prompted for me to pass keystrokes through, which I did. All keystrokes are passed through with the exception of Ctrl, Alt, Delete, and the numPad, which the latter is a bit disappointing because no Object Nav/Review cursor , or modifier key on the remote end. To perform the Ctrl Alt, Delete keystrokes you seem to be required to click on the Actions menu in the TeamViewer main toolbar , which is outside of the session. The only way I have found to get out of the main session window as alt, tab is being passed through to the session is pressing, ctrl, alt, del which brings up task manager on the controlling PC. Switch to the Applications tab, then choose a window to switch too. Alt tabbing back to the TeamViewer window will then pass the keystrokes back into the session. Exploring this screen with NVDA's Object Nav I can see the minimise, resize, and maxamise icons, a toolbar which wont' let me interactive with, and something that just says TV3. Right clicking or left clicking using Object Nav does nothing. Has anyone been able to get this action menu activated through the keyboard? Thanks, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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Teamviewer with NVDA
by Barry Toner 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Folks, I've successfully been able to control a remote computer using Teamviewer v8 with speech feedback from NVDA, with some issues that can hopefully be overcome The setup was minimal. Install TeamViewer on both systems, with no special configurations. Connect to the remote computer. In my experiment I had NVDA running already, but you could simply ask an end-user to start it from an icon on the desktop. When I pressed WinKey E, TeamViewer recognised this as a keystroke and prompted for me to pass keystrokes through, which I did. All keystrokes are passed through with the exception of Ctrl, Alt, Delete, and the numPad, which the latter is a bit disappointing because no Object Nav/Review cursor , or modifier key on the remote end. To perform the Ctrl Alt, Delete keystrokes you seem to be required to click on the Actions menu in the TeamViewer main toolbar , which is outside of the session. The only way I have found to get out of the main session window as alt, tab is being passed through to the session is pressing, ctrl, alt, del which brings up task manager on the controlling PC. Switch to the Applications tab, then choose a window to switch too. Alt tabbing back to the TeamViewer window will then pass the keystrokes back into the session. Exploring this screen with NVDA's Object Nav I can see the minimise, resize, and maxamise icons, a toolbar which wont' let me interactive with, and something that just says TV3. Right clicking or left clicking using Object Nav does nothing. Has anyone been able to get this action menu activated through the keyboard? Thanks, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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accessibility of backtrack
by David Mehler 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Hello, Has anyone got backtrack going with speech? I've got some projects that I might be needing to use it. Thanks. Dave.

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Kali Linux
by Andrew Hodgson 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hi, For those who were looking at Backtrack now try Kali Linux: http://www.kali.org/ Andrew.

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Kali Linux
by Andrew Hodgson 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hi, For those who were looking at Backtrack now try Kali Linux: http://www.kali.org/ Andrew.

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Cisco Vision Presents: How to build a basic web site
by Stephen Guerra 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Date: Friday, March 22, 2013 Time: 9:00 PM until 11:00 PM eastern Where: Team Talk Server through Curtin University Center for Accesible Technology Monica Willyard who teaches the HTML5 and CSS Course through Cisco Visions and Curtin University Center for Accessible Technology will be giving a seminar which will be recorded as a podcast, on how to build a basic web site. This two hour seminar will be held on the CiscoVisions Team Talk server address of: tt.cucat.org Please note: (use the default ports as provided when setting up your Team Talk Channel for this seminar) What you should have: It is best that if you want to participate in this seminar, that you use a Headset with microphone. If you do not have a headset combination with Microphone, a stand-a-alone microphone plus a headset will work as well. For the benefit of all, if you want to participate and not have the annoyance of feedback, then you should avoid using a microphone with speakers. Downloading Team Talk You can download Team Talk from the following link: Windows: http://download.bearware.dk/teamtalk/v4.4/TeamTalk_v4.4_Setup.exe For the Mac: http://download.bearware.dk/teamtalk/v4.4/TeamTalk_v4.4_Setup.dmg Curtin University Center for Accessible Technology If you would like to know more about the many courses given through Cisco Visions, and would like to take part in the online courses please visit: http://www.ciscovision.org BlindTech is owned by Michael Capelle: MichaelCapelle(a)charter.net To send a message to the list BlindTech(a)lists.BlindTech-List.info To search list archives: http://lists.blindtech-list.info/pipermail/blindtech-blindtech-list.info/ If you have any questions about this list, or the day-to-day opperations, please don't send those questions on list, instead, please write: blindtech-owner(a)lists.blindtech-list.info To manage your subscription options, go to http://lists.blindtech-list.info/options.cgi/blindtech-blindtech-list.info

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accessibility of backtrack
by David Mehler 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hello, Has anyone got backtrack going with speech? I've got some projects that I might be needing to use it. Thanks. Dave.

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Calculator
by Greg B. 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hello Everyone, Can anyone recommend a good accessible calculator that is capable of working with numbers in various formats such as binary, hex and decimal? The windows calculator does ok but it can be a little bit of a pain in the butt to do a lot of work on conversions of numbers. Thanks, Greg B.

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