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2003 rras and ping
by Dave 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hello, I'm trying to get a few 2003 servers to be able to ping each other. Their network interfaces are set to public connected to the internet as this is in a test environment. Additionally, under the ICMP settings tab i check incoming echo request, outgoing source quench, and outgoing destination unreachable, the checked status does not appear to be holding between restarts of rras. Suggestions please. Thanks. Dave.

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jaws9 and remote desktop
by Dave 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hello, Is anyone using jaws9 with remote desktop? I just discovered that the ability is available and want to get up to speed with it. I've tried to connect to a virtual machine via remote desktop, but performance was not so good. I had several issues, one of which was that it seemed as if both jaws's host and vm appeared to be active and atempting to speak. Another item was that entering keyboard commands on the remote desktop computer for example the start menu activated the start menu on the host. I also noticed a speech component on the host machine called remote speech, if anyone has all this working i'm interested in knowing the procedure. Thanks. Dave.

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accessible LiveCD or LFS with Windows/Linux diagnostics
by Dave 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hello, Has anyone got a Linux From Scratch CD working with speech and added in custom apps? I've got one working with speech, but it was a modification of the existing LiveCD and doesn't have any additional applications. My goal is to have a disk that i can drop in to a machine, and boot and it will detect sound card and enable me to run diagnostics, most immediately being memtest86. Thanks. Dave.

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web solutions?
by Ibraam Wahib 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

hello members list: please how can i install drupal or any web sulotion on my computer to easily make sites? also what's java access bridge? and how it can be used? thanks.

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accessible standalone computer imaging program?
by Dave 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Hello, My recent experience with my laptop has shown that i am in need of an accessible flexible imaging solution. I tried ghost specifically 2007, but since they moved to a CD system as opposed to the old floppies which i could batch script that wasn't workable without sighted assistance. And when i got it ghost wouldn't see the USB external hard disk, i'm not sure but i think that reason was due to the fact that it was a 500 gb hd and formatted ntfs, i'd like for this to be doable. Thanks. Dave.

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yet another vmware question
by John G. Heim 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

I have a Windows PC that I pretty much use only as a Windows terminal. I mean, I do web browsing, read email, and use ssh. But all my real work is done on a linux box. I was thinking of combining the 2 machines by installing vmware server and then running Windows as a virtual machine. I was thinking that then I'd ssh from the virtual machine to the real machine to do my work. Is the fre vmware product vmware server good enough? Do I need to pay for vmware workstation?

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disk manager accessibility
by Dave 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hello, Is anyone using server 2003 disk manager with speech? I'm wanting to manage disks if possible via that if possible, doing things with raid. The last time i looked at this about six months back it didn't work so well. I was wondering if this had changed? Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible standalone computer imaging program?
by Angelo Sonnesso 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Take a look at image for windows it comes with a dos companion program, and they both work well with speech. Angelo Sonnesso M.A. M.S. Social Worker for the Blind -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:10 PM To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible standalone computer imaging program? Hello, My recent experience with my laptop has shown that i am in need of an accessible flexible imaging solution. I tried ghost specifically 2007, but since they moved to a CD system as opposed to the old floppies which i could batch script that wasn't workable without sighted assistance. And when i got it ghost wouldn't see the USB external hard disk, i'm not sure but i think that reason was due to the fact that it was a 500 gb hd and formatted ntfs, i'd like for this to be doable. Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.6/1766 - Release Date: 11/4/2008 8:26 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.6/1766 - Release Date: 11/4/2008 8:26 AM

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accessible server based antivirus software
by Philip 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Has anyone found an accessible server based antivirus package? I tried avg internet security sbs edition as a demo. the admin console seems to be a nice package, but it crashes when attempting to access it with any version of jaws. it comes back with a really helpful message, "something really bad happened" contacting the vender just got me a form email saying they are working on the problem. I also tried windoweyes which doesn't have the crashing problem, but it would require scripts or set files to work properly which I am not qualified to develop. I am not impressed by symantec for a number of reasons. any other packages that I should look at? I want to be able to manage it from a server, pushing out virus deffinitions to clients, perform scans on clients from the server, and view the resulting reports. Thanks Phil

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JFW activation
by Andrew Hodgson 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Hi, Anyone else had issues getting activation resets from Freedom Scientific? I normally request a reset around twice per year, but this time I had an issue where I upgraded the RAM in my laptop, causing me to have to activate again, then this weekend I tried to install Vista, activated, and had a driver crash which meant reinstalling. I did get the activation count reset, but I got a message stating that they have noticed that I had to have the account reset a few times, and to contact support if this continued happening. I am frankly unhappy with the current activation process, and wonder if anyone has got FS to work round it in their situation? At work its even worse since due to the license type I was given I only have one activation, which means that if I need to reinstall I am going to have to reset it afterwards. Thanks. Andrew.

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