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IAVICP Board of Directors
by John G. Heim 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

All, After my latest call for opinions on forming a group for visually impaired computer professionals, I got a little bit more interest. So we have decided to proceed with formation of this organization. The purpose of the organization is threefold: 1. To serve as a source for information on adaptive techniques for visually impaired computer professionals. 2. To serve as a source for social networking for visually impaired computer professionals. 3. To serve as an advocate for visually impaired professionals. The first thing we need to do is form a board of directors. Anyone interested in serving on the board should email me at jheim(a)math.wisc.edu as soon as possible. You need not be an American to be on the board of directors. In fact, international interest is welcome. I have already contacted a lawyer about getting tax exempt status in the United States. We need to have a board of directors to get tax exempt status. We already have enough people to legally create a board of directors but I was hoping for 2 or 3 more people to bring the total to 5 or 6.

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free accessible disk immaging solutions
by Jared Stofflett 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

I'm looking for a free way to make a disk immage of my laptop and store it on my desktop. I was considering booting off a live linux cd and using dd to copy the entire hard disk. Any info on accessible ways to do this would be appreciated.

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jaws & vmware server 2.0
by John G. Heim 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Anybody know if it's possible to make jaws behave in vmware server 2.0? I understand that jaws works really well with vmware workstation and fusion. But in server2, I get a request to install the video intercept each time I start jaws and then the installation fails. The google tells me that this is a problem with server2 but I was hoping for a miracle cure. -- John G. Heim jheim(a)math.wisc.edu 3-4189 http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/

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Ipsec setup and ipsec policies for access
by Dave 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Hello, Does anyone have any quick notes on this? I'm trying to get some test ipsec vpn tunnels set up between two machines and not having much success with it. I am looking for something like in note form, but not detailed, if i need details on a particular point i can google that, just looking for a broad overview. Thanks. Dave. David Mehler (MCP,Network+,A+) dave.mehler(a)gmail.com

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accessible ssh access?
by Jared Stofflett 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

I'm in a system administration class where we ssh into Linux servers to administer them. What is an accessible ssh client? I currently use cygwin with export TERM=linux although it works for commands such as pwd and ls when I try to access editors such as vim over ssh jaws does not track well in the editor. Thanks for any info.

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Unreadable files on my hard drive because of access denied errors
by Brent Harding 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Hi there. The subject pretty well says it, but I have been noticing that especially with one of my folders , select files are not readable or copyable, and if I try to copy them, I get access denied errors. I can delete the offending files just fine, but how do I recover this stuff? I want to back it up to an external drive, which I have done with the stuff that is still readable. My other external might have most of the stuff as far as that folder goes, but how can I recover this so it is copyable at least? If I try to delete one, it does delete. I've run the Windows check disk thing and had it repair the file system and all, but I'm scared of why files won't even copy from a Ubuntu live CD without saying permission denied. I haven't really done anything that would make files write only, but I wonder if my hard drive is going or something. I even tried a solution I googled to try to take ownership of these files, but I still can't get them to copy. I hope there is a solution as I don't want to lose everything to this mysterious lack of reading ability. Thanks

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AVICP?
by John Heim 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

All, I'm thinking of trying to start an organization for blind and visually impaired computer professionals. This group would have 3 purposes: 1. Serve as an umbrella group for providing technical information for blind computer professionals. 2. Provide social networking services. By social networking, I don't necessarily mean fun & games. That's okay but I was thinking more in terms of jobs. 3. Provide advocacy. For example, the group could approach vmware about making their products more accessible to the blind and visually impaired. I know the NFB has a sub-committee that attempts to address computer accessibility but their approach is geared more toward the general public. Not that there is anything wrong with suing Target, for example, but is small potatoes from my point of view. The inaccessibility of vmware, for example, directly effects my abilityto get and keep a job. I am tentatively thinking of using the name Association of Visually Impaired Computer Professionals, AVICP. What do you think?

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XP CD?
by Ibraam Wahib 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

hello members: please I need to make a cd contains win-xp pro + jaws and all programs that I am using, and my drivers. could you send me the good program to make this package? and a tutorial about doing that? I need to make it accessible for the blind during setup. thanks. ibraam

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Accessible Disk Imagers
by Steve Matzura 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

I'm the sys admin for a small network--my home network--which has, among other things, five desktops and two laptops running XP SP2. I recently had to rebuild one after something, and I still don't know what that something was, turned most of my machine into just so much cole slaw. It all started with trying to uninstall a trial version of a voice dialer called VoiceIt or something similar. Anyway, the uninstall went bad, and took the rest of the machine with it. One New Year's resolution I'm deciding is a must-keep is to image all my boot drives in the house and pack 'em away against the day, which will hopefully never come, when I need them. I just took a Dell Dimension 4700 and rolled it back to factory defaults through use of the Dell System Recovery Environment (DSRE), which is a fancy shmancy name for nothing more than a hidden partition with a Ghost image and some batch file control on the front end to automate the process. I had just a wee bit of trouble with it in that somehow something (possibly even the deinstall of VoiceIt) had broken the master boot record for the hidden partition wherein the DSRE is located. Thanks to a gentleman on the net named Dan Goodell, I was able to put Humpty Dumpty together again and with about two minutes help from my self-proclaimed Ludite wife, brought the 4700 back to life. This is Something I wish not to have to repeat. Ever. What was great about the DSRE was that it worked flawlessly. What was horrible about it was, of course, that it had no speech. So now that the computer's been completely updated and all the software I want on it has been reinstalled and everything's at a nice stable state, it's now time to do the deed and make another image, this one hopefully bootable from a CD and maybe even with some speech and accessible. Mind you, I'm going to have to do this, whatever it is, at least six times, so I'd like whatever I build to be accessible everywhere. I was even thinking really big like get a USB drive and put all the images on it and have a bootable front-end where I select which image I want to restore, and it just goes and does it. What are folks thoughts on how to do this?

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Windows 7 Installation
by Frank Ventura 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hello all, I am most likely going to download the beta of Windows 7 from Microsoft this weekend. Can anyone tell me if there is a unattended install available for this upcoming version of Windows or will I need a pair of eyes to install it? Any differences in the installation procedure from a blindness perspective? Thanks Frank Ventura, MCP

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