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Accessibility of VMWare desktops
by Darragh OHeiligh 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Hello, I've written a blog post about my attempts at using a thin client to access a virtual desktop. The hope in this company is that we will move over to this type of set up sooner rather than later and as usual, people such as my self in IT are expected to be the testers. Please read the post at http://www.digitaldarragh.com/2012/04/19/the-accessibility-of-virtual-deskt… and feel free to leave a comment. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Fujitsu Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Fredrick Building, South Fredrick Street, Dublin2 Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559 Email: darragh.oheiligh(a)oireachtas.ie Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie

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Malware and File Permissions and attributes
by David Mehler 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Hello, Has anyone dealt specifically with any of the following malware: 1. Exploit:Java/CVE-2012-0507.R 2. backdoor:Win32/Kelihos.F 3. Exploit:Java/CVE-2010-0840.QI 4. exploit:Java/CVE-2012-0507.R!ldr 5. TrojanDownloader:Win32/Waledac.C 6. trojan:Win32/Tibs.IT 7. Trojan:Win64/Alureon.gen!F 8. Trojan:Win64/Alureon.gen!J 9. trojan:Win32/Alureon.gen!AD 10. Trojan:Win32/Orsam!rts 11. trojan:Win32/Alureon.FK 12. Trojan:DOS/Alureon.I 13. trojan:Win32/Dynamer!dtc 14. Trojan:Win32/Dynamer!dtc on a win7 64 bit machine? This one is going to be convoluted. An individual who gives me more computer headaches than anyone else but he also happens to be extended family, called me about two weeks back claiming his box had a worm. I think he was running Norton 360. I do not know the name of the worm or if it was a worm. He didn't give me the box until four days ago when problems had eskelated to a backdoor/rootkit, trojan, and a virus his words. His cleaning efforts did not take the box off the internet so I wouldn't be surprised. The thing that got the box finally to me was a black screen, my guess is a very corrupted windows given some of the above malware I've googled as well as a report that his user profile, documents, background, pictures, etc was gone. The drive in question is very full only having 20 GB left of space. Here's the problem, I put that drive in an external enclosure hooked it up to a test box and cleaned it, took two passes of Security Essentials and Malware bites to do it, found the above listing of stuff this is after his "cleaning efforts" I can only have nightmares about what this looked like before. Two problems, the black screen (corrupted windows or registry my guess), and file permission changes. He reported to me that certain files were "hidden" I have since discovered that they are operating system protected, but his profile is not accessible, it's showing up as a folder with no files or folders in it. These reports are still from this drive being in the external enclosure, I have not rehooked it up to it's motherboard, I believe my next step is to blow it away, it sounds like it is really bad, but I've got to get the profiles, documents, pictures, etc. Suggestions welcome, none of my googling on the above indicated they did anything with regards changing file attributes to hidden or setting files "protected" by the operating system. Thanks. Dave.

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Latest version of HP command view is very very accessible.
by Darragh OHeiligh 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

A good new story for a change. I have never seen web accessibility work this well before. The tree views in the latest HP command view software for SAN management are completely accessible. Hat off to HP. They've definitly got this right. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Fujitsu Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Fredrick Building, South Fredrick Street, Dublin2 Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559 Email: darragh.oheiligh(a)oireachtas.ie Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie

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Latest version of HP command view is very very accessible.
by Darragh OHeiligh 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

A good new story for a change. I have never seen web accessibility work this well before. The tree views in the latest HP command view software for SAN management are completely accessible. Hat off to HP. They've definitly got this right. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Fujitsu Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Fredrick Building, South Fredrick Street, Dublin2 Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559 Email: darragh.oheiligh(a)oireachtas.ie Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie

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Accessibility of VMWare desktops
by Darragh OHeiligh 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Hello, I've written a blog post about my attempts at using a thin client to access a virtual desktop. The hope in this company is that we will move over to this type of set up sooner rather than later and as usual, people such as my self in IT are expected to be the testers. Please read the post at http://www.digitaldarragh.com/2012/04/19/the-accessibility-of-virtual-deskt… and feel free to leave a comment. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Fujitsu Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Fredrick Building, South Fredrick Street, Dublin2 Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559 Email: darragh.oheiligh(a)oireachtas.ie Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie

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GTK Offline registry editor for Linux precompiled binary
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Dear advanced users and developers. Thanks to MR Elmar Hanlhofer i Am snedind You The precompiled binary of GTK offline registry editor. Because compiling it can be difficult for non programmers. The download link is here. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15279728/GtkOfflineRegistry Please keep in mind, that You must use chmod 777 GtkOfflineRegistry To make this precompiled binary executable. Here is also direct download link for live distribution created by ammazing programmer, who compiled GTK offline registry editor. It is special distribution for visually impaired system administrators, because Gnome will be executed as root user, Orca will run as root, Gparted is included. Firefox will not work, because of complex thinks to make it usable when compiling everythink from scratch. I have made my best to bring You this distribution, i have deeply cooperated with MR Elmar Hanlhofer to make it possible to use Orca with this distribution. The direct download link for downloading this live distro for system administrators is here. http://download.plop.at/files/ploplinux/4.2.0/ploplinux-4.2.0/ploplinux-4.2… GTK offline registry editor is precompiled here and it is executable inside this distribution. You can use this distribution to transfer data Across two computers by using The network cable.

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questions game develophment
by Juliano Cesar Ribeiro 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

staff, my name is Julian, I'm from Brazil, the city of Brasilia. we are developing a helicopter game for blind people, who aims to save people in the midst of natural desasters.the game will be playable by both blinded by psychics. we will be participating in international competition picture cup (Microsoft) for this reason, the game is being created xna (development platform games). The game is also being made for windows phone, though, until the moment, there are no tools to access this device (something that may change after the game's development); how the game is intended for both blind and for sighted, will sound and image, stating altitude, etc.. following questions: then we want to know: what games have been developed for the blind here in world? the blind have a game such as xbox360? if so, what are the difficulties? Another detail: what are the expectations regarding the game helicopter that we are developing. what is the opinion of you / them on the games industry? which needs to be improved to ensure access by the disabled visual to this niche market? masters / as, believe that there was some evolution in development of games for the blind? if so, what? (consider our reality as well as Brazil, the answer this question). If there were no developments, pointing out that improvements could be made. kinect question: any of you had any experience with kinect? which difficulties? What can be improved, in the opinion of you / them? experience with consoles: What consoles (games) have been played by gentlemen? what games? difficulties they encountered? statistics: how many visually impaired people in the world, between 6 and 45 years? which the perspective of you, regarding the use of kinect for blind people? big hug and look personal response.

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vm on console in esxi
by John Heim 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

Can I use a virtual machine at the console on a esxi 5.0 host? I was thinking what I could do is put a command to start the vm in a startup script so that when I powered up the host, it would come up with a virtual machine running on the console. I already know that I can get speech via a USB headset connected to the host.

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Still Worth It?
by Ben Mustill-Rose 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Hi all, I've been following Brians topic with some interest as it seems like most of you are doing what I aspire to be; I contribute to things on here whenever I think I have something informative to say, but I'm not really anything more than a hobbyist sysadmin at the moment. My plan for the past few years has been to graduate, start getting certs and eventually to end up in an environment where I would be doing everything. In my explorations I haven't really run into any major access issues other than the standard things like audio services not being started, but I've never really done anything regarding vmware other than using some of their consumer offerings. So, I'm wondering if everyone still thinks its worth trying to get a job as a sysadmin? I don't give up on things easily (I've gone further than anyone else I know when it comes to hardware) and I do like a challenge, but I've noticed a few times that more experienced people on this list have pretty much said that our lucks out in this area. Your thoughts would be great; it seems a bit pointless studying for something that people who do it already are saying presents too many access issues. Cheers, Ben.

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Still Worth It?
by Ben Mustill-Rose 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Hi all, I've been following Brians topic with some interest as it seems like most of you are doing what I aspire to be; I contribute to things on here whenever I think I have something informative to say, but I'm not really anything more than a hobbyist sysadmin at the moment. My plan for the past few years has been to graduate, start getting certs and eventually to end up in an environment where I would be doing everything. In my explorations I haven't really run into any major access issues other than the standard things like audio services not being started, but I've never really done anything regarding vmware other than using some of their consumer offerings. So, I'm wondering if everyone still thinks its worth trying to get a job as a sysadmin? I don't give up on things easily (I've gone further than anyone else I know when it comes to hardware) and I do like a challenge, but I've noticed a few times that more experienced people on this list have pretty much said that our lucks out in this area. Your thoughts would be great; it seems a bit pointless studying for something that people who do it already are saying presents too many access issues. Cheers, Ben.

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