What about using free tools like WinSCP and Text Pal or Ed Sharp for editors? With WinSCP, you can choose the editor to use and right-click a file and choose edit. When you save, it goes back up. I'm glad I have SSH access to my Wordpress blog because this won't work over regular FTP without Webdrive which costs almost $80. As for the commandline, Voiceover on a mac reads about as good as anything. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <Andrew.Hodgson@allpay.net> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:51 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] sysadmin tools (was: what is system administrator)
Hi,
Two interesting tools - Textpad and sftpdrive. I would be wary of doing edits to a Linux configuration file in Windows due to the CR/LF issue, but it sounds like Textpad copes with that ok?
I have enough sight luckily to get by with Putty, and that is what I use with Jaws on a daily basis.
Thanks. Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of John G. Heim Sent: 29 May 2009 15:44 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] sysadmin tools (was: what is system administrator)
Scott, you are correct about what I meant when I say I use Windows as a workstation for linux systems administration.
I have never been able to get putty working with jaws. I downloaded jaws scripts but they didn't help much. I don't rememberwhere I got them from. Maybe better scripts are available today.
So instead I use openssh for Windows. It runs in a command window so you have all the jaws functionality that you'd have in any command window. But that's not that great because its nearly impossible to use any curses app run on the linux machine. You can run vi, for example, and if you work at it hard enough, you can make some minor edits. But I wouldn't want to do much more than change a character or 2.
The tool I usually use for editing files on a linux machine is sftpdrive. This program allows you to map a Windows network share to any machine running sftp. It looks just like any other network drive on your Windows machine. So then you can use your favorite Windows text editor to change config files. Very slick.
For windows text editing, I use a program called TextPad. I like it because its simple and you can configure it to use standard windows text editing commands. You know what I mean? Control+f should bring up a find dialog box. F3 should be find next. Any text editor that doesn't follow conventions like that is goofy. They can have their own key binding if they want but you ought to be able to configure it for standard key bindings.
Sftpdrive and TextPad aren't free. I think they're both around $40.
Other tools that I use pretty regularly are NVDA and a USB headset. I have NVDA on a thumb drive so I can plug in the headset, insert the thumb drive which brings up a dialog box offereing to start NVDA. I press enter and I have speech on just about any Windows machine.
Then I have a hardware speech synth and a grml CD handy for linux emergencies. We get all of our computers from Dell and I have yet to see one without a serial port.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Granados" <scott@granados-llc.net> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] what is system administrator need
If I could add to this.
What I think he's driving at is he uses the windows box as his main terminal or interface. JFW or another reader virbalizes the output from programs like putty or secure crt which you would use to then connect to the unix machine. You would have the TTS output from JFW on your windows desktop but your actually say working on a machine in another room, or state or country.
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