Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Intel AMT and vPro

19 Dec 2014


      UEFI is proving to be a bit of a mixed bag for me at the moment. I've
heard of tools like the one that you mention, but sometimes options
like secure boot have to be disabled if you want to boot from CD or
USB and the trick of removing all partitions on the HDD or simply
removing it won't work. In my experience this isn't a problem on new
motherboards of systems that you're building yourself, but in the
situation I'm thinking of I had just replaced the motherboard on a
laptop with a used one & settings needed to be changed.

On 12/19/14, Bram Duvigneau  wrote:
...
UEFI is also interesting. My recent UEFI based motherboard came with a
Windows GUI tool to change some settings. This was inaccessible.
However, in the program directory was a commandline tool that can
dump/load settings from the UEFI firmware on my board. So I could do a
dump, edit the text file en load the changed settings. Worked fine when
I needed to change boot settings and enable Intels CPU virtualization
features. I think this was an Award tool if I remember correctly and it
should work with all UEFI firmwares made by Award.
Bram
On 12/19/2014 7:06 PM, Anatoliy Shudrya wrote:
...
My apologies, I did google it afterwards and got my answer, sorry again.
There is though interesting technology that cut my eye, it might be the
future of accessible BIOS. Intel vPro and Intel AMT, supposedly allows
remotely to control the system, power it up, reboot, control BIOS, KVM,
remotely install OS etc. I haven't tried it yet with any of the screen
readers, but something that I will definitely play with in the near
future.
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From: Blind-sysadmins
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
Darragh Ó Héiligh
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 2:55 PM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Serial Synthesizers
Anatolay,
This question has been asked about a million times.
Sorry if I'm coming across a bit harsh but people have done a lot of
research into making a BIOS accessible.  I suggest you go google this
question.
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Anatoliy Shudrya
Sent: 18 December 2014 18:58
To: 'Blind sysadmins list'
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Serial Synthesizers
Are these hardware synthesizers capable of making BIOS accessible? I got
to
IT with software synthesizers only and never had a change to work with
one
of the hardware once. Always wondered if it worse the effort to invest in
one of the hardware synth to be able working on the BIOS level when
needed.
Do they have one with USB connection? Sorry it's kind of off the topic.
Anatoliy
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From: Blind-sysadmins
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Chris
Smart
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Serial Synthesizers
Oh they are. I still prefer Eloquence for basic computing where I have
the
speech cranked up though. But for pleasure reading, the more
human-sounding
voices for sure.
...
I had the Artic business vision and before that an Echo 2E later on the
Dectalk.
Love that these are things of the past, they sounded good (dectalk did
anyway) but software synths are miles ahead in my opinion.
On Dec 18, 2014, at 1:12 PM, Chris Smart  wrote:
...
am I the only one who misses the Accent synth
and ASAP on dos machines? Most found Accent to be too stacato, but I
really liked it at fast speeds. Same goes for Artic.
At 01:06 PM 12/18/2014, you wrote:
...
Hi,
Not really to me - Apollo has a very
distinctive voice.  I wish it could be reserected.  Those were the
days that the hardware synth manufacturers had several different
variants of their synths - Dolphin for example had an internal Apollo
ISA card, the two external Apollos/Junos and the PCMCIA Gemini card.
Andrew.
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mattias
Sent: 18 December 2014 17:13
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Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Serial Synthesizers
But the voice in orpheus tts sound verry verry verry like apollo
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On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh
...
Sent: den 18 december 2014 18:09
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Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Serial Synthesizers
NO. Not really. Similar though.
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mattias
...
Sent: 18 December 2014 17:08
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But them have same voice?
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...
Sent: den 18 december 2014 18:00
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Hi,
Juno is smaller, has a slightly inferior
speaker and can be powered by battery where as Apollo is external
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powered synth.
...
Andrew.
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mattias
...
Sent: 18 December 2014 16:38
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Hm? Juno and appollo are the same?
Or what are different
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On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh
...
Sent: den 18 december 2014 17:19
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Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Serial Synthesizers
Vic,
I was the same to a certain extent.  When I
started, I had a Juno and an Apollo 2.
I lived with Hal 4 for years! I mean
years.  I must have used it from 1993 to 2003 when I needed to do
something in Dos.
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On Behalf Of vic.pereira@ssc-spc.gc.ca
...
Sent: 18 December 2014 15:57
To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Serial Synthesizers
Well, back then the Braille n' Speak was an
OK note taker. We didn't have much to choose from when it came to
At 01:38 PM 12/18/2014, you wrote:
portability.
...
...
...
It also worked as double duty as a portable
synthesizer. For example when taking a course where the classroom was
a computer lab. If you had text to speech software that you could
install on one of the classroom computers the BnS worked as a
synthesizer. Remember there was a time when we didn't have access to
software synthesizers. Many of us taking networking courses, classes
that required the use of terminal emulation programs to access minis,
mainframes etc.  or anything else that used a computer we had to be
flexible and creative to make those classroom environments work for
us.
If we expected the training companies and instructors to set all that
up for us, we would have been waiting for a very very long time.
A friend of mine uses the following statement often:
"I used to be plastic, but now I am elastic."
I like that saying, because it demonstrates
how a little flexibility can go a long way
Vic Pereira
Shared Services Canada/Services partagés Canada
9-111 Lombard Avenue
Winnipeg MB R3B 0T4
Vic.pereira@ssc-spc.gc.ca
204-781-5046
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On Behalf Of Stephen Guerra
...
Sent: December-18-14 9:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA will soon support remote access
But why would anyone want a $695 speech synthesizer
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On Behalf Of vic.pereira@ssc-spc.gc.ca
...
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 9:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA will soon support remote access
The Blazie products also worked as speech
synthesizers that could be connected to a serial port and accessed by
text to speech software.
Vic Pereira
Shared Services Canada/Services partagés Canada
9-111 Lombard Avenue
Winnipeg MB R3B 0T4
Vic.pereira@ssc-spc.gc.ca
204-781-5046
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...
Sent: December-17-14 5:57 PM
To: Blind sysadmins list
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but braille an speak are hardware?
On 2014-12-17 15:59, vic.pereira@ssc-spc.gc.ca wrote:
...
Hello Katherine
Some of us curmudgeons can put up with a lot of bad synthesized
speech.
When one is brought up on TriFormations FSST
dumb terminals, Type n' Talk, Blazie Braille n'
Speak etc. a lot of these software synthesizers aren't too shabby.
Also, you made a comment regarding the look of a UI. When someone
has
useable vision, the look of an application
is as important to them as the quality of synthetic speech is to some
of
us.
Vic Pereira
Shared Services Canada/Services partagés Canada
9-111 Lombard Avenue
Winnipeg MB R3B 0T4
Vic.pereira@ssc-spc.gc.ca
204-781-5046
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From: Blind-sysadmins
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On
Behalf Of Katherine Moss
Sent: December-16-14 6:58 PM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA will soon support remote
access
I've never tried Teamviewer and NVDA, but I've heard the audio
from
my
friend's side when he uses Teamviewer to
access my computer, and let me tell you, it sounds like crap.
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From: Blind-sysadmins
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Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 6:48 PM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA will soon support remote
access
It sounds like it will be a good solution for blind on blind
support so to
speak & a blind person supporting a sighted
friend. ISTM that corporations who also have sighted administrators
will still have to deploy another remote access solution on top of
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
mattias
this one though as it doesn't support video & I got the impression
that they're not intending to make it into a fully featured remote
administration tool.
...
...
Never the less, I'll be contributing to their campain as it's
noticeabley
better than TeamViewer & NVDA which is what
I'm having to use for people at the moment.
Cheers,
Ben.
On 12/16/14, Katherine Moss  wrote:
> Now that's awesome? not to mention, best programmers out there
> to do the job; everything I've purchased from Christopher, and
> I've nearly bought all of his stuff; I intend to finish those
> purchases off
soon;
> I can't tell you how  much productivity and joy I've gotten out
> of them. I use QRead and Chicken Nugget on the daily. If those
> are
good,
> then I can only imagine what this will do; hopefully it will be
> good for both client OS and server OS access. Now all we need is
> a
virtual
channel over RDP.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blind-sysadmins
> [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On
> Behalf
Of
> Ben Mustill-Rose
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:38 PM
> To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA will soon support remote access
>
> Hi all,
>
> Taken from http://www.nvdaremote.com
>
> NVDA Remote Access Preview
> Welcome to NVDA Remote Access
> NVDA Remote access will be a free add-on to NVDA which allows a
> user to remotely control another machine. It does its part to
> reverse the trend of blind unemployment by creating more job
> opportunities for tech entrepreneurs, system administrators,
> rehabilitation specialists, and educators.
> Why do we need Remote Access?
> NVDA Remote Access will give blind users the freedom to enjoy a
> number of career and educational options. Blind Technical
> Support Professionals and amateurs alike can Use NVDA Remote
> access to connect to their clients computers remotely in real
> time and walk them through multi-step procedures or teach them
> new applications, techniques and workflows. Educators can hear
> what their students are doing on their computers and vice versa,
> providing a perfect environment for hands-on training from afar.
> Whether in an office down the hall or a datacenter on the other
> side of the globe, NVDA Remote access will provide powerful,
> minimal latency access to the
Windows desktop via speech.
> Audio Demonstration
> Listen to a podcast where we demonstrate and discuss the current
> prototype of NVDA Remote Access.
>
http://www.cucat.org/class_notes/CaviCasts/2014/20141213_nvda_remote.
> m
> p3
> Who are we?
> Tyler Spivey and Christopher Toth, creators of popular
> accessible software such as 3MT Reader , QRead , Chicken Nugget
> , MushReader , and
more.
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
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