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pendrivelinux?
by David Mehler 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Hello, Is anyone using pendrivelinux: www.pendrivelinux.com to make multi boot thumb drives? If so are the OS's you get accessible, come up with speech? A friend of mine is using this, and he says he uses the YUMI loader, I'm assuming that's a boot loader. I would like to do this myself as I can see the potential in it, but I would like to know which options I'm selecting on boot and then to have the subsequent operating systems come up talking, for example Orca on Linux. If anyone has any pointers or has this working let me know. Thanks. Dave.

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pendrivelinux?
by David Mehler 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Hello, Is anyone using pendrivelinux: www.pendrivelinux.com to make multi boot thumb drives? If so are the OS's you get accessible, come up with speech? A friend of mine is using this, and he says he uses the YUMI loader, I'm assuming that's a boot loader. I would like to do this myself as I can see the potential in it, but I would like to know which options I'm selecting on boot and then to have the subsequent operating systems come up talking, for example Orca on Linux. If anyone has any pointers or has this working let me know. Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] FW: How to sell yourself to employers as a blind, but capable technologist
by Chris Smart 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Thanks for all of that Vic.

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imaging windows 8
by David Mehler 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Hello, I've got a couple of windows 8 boxes I'd like to image. I'm wanting to do a complete image, not just the data, and use it in the future in case of drive hardware failure. My goal take the image, probably from outside of windows itself from talking media? then in the event of hardware failure, buy a new drive, put it in, restore the image, and give the box back to it's owner and go on with things. In the really old days I used to use Ghost from floppy disk and have it run from batch file. I've tried image for windows from a win7PE boot environment and although that worked in creating the image, even put it where I wanted it, it wouldn't boot on restore. Is there a trick to imaging nowadays? Recommendations? Thanks. Dave.

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imaging windows 8
by David Mehler 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Hello, I've got a couple of windows 8 boxes I'd like to image. I'm wanting to do a complete image, not just the data, and use it in the future in case of drive hardware failure. My goal take the image, probably from outside of windows itself from talking media? then in the event of hardware failure, buy a new drive, put it in, restore the image, and give the box back to it's owner and go on with things. In the really old days I used to use Ghost from floppy disk and have it run from batch file. I've tried image for windows from a win7PE boot environment and although that worked in creating the image, even put it where I wanted it, it wouldn't boot on restore. Is there a trick to imaging nowadays? Recommendations? Thanks. Dave.

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Windows Server 2012.
by Ernesto Fdez 02 Nov '13

02 Nov '13

Hello: They could tell me if Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is accessible with Jaws or nvda and if they know some accessible way for its installation. Thanks , Ernesto -- Este mensaje le ha llegado mediante el servicio de correo electronico que ofrece Infomed para respaldar el cumplimiento de las misiones del Sistema Nacional de Salud. La persona que envia este correo asume el compromiso de usar el servicio a tales fines y cumplir con las regulaciones establecidas Infomed: http://www.sld.cu/

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Virtualization.
by Ernesto Fdez 02 Nov '13

02 Nov '13

Hi: I need to install various virtual servers in a PC. All the virtual servers will have Microsoft Windows as SO. Can they recommend me some accessible solution (hypervisor)? Thanks. -- Este mensaje le ha llegado mediante el servicio de correo electronico que ofrece Infomed para respaldar el cumplimiento de las misiones del Sistema Nacional de Salud. La persona que envia este correo asume el compromiso de usar el servicio a tales fines y cumplir con las regulaciones establecidas Infomed: http://www.sld.cu/

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Accessing Windows 8 Client-side hyper-V using a screen reader
by Katherine Moss 02 Nov '13

02 Nov '13

Hi all, Has anyone figured out an accessible way to access Hyper-V virtual machines located on a computer running windows 8.1 client-side Hyper-V? I would think, that since unlike VMware, who offers virtual soundcard emulation, it would not be possible accept via RDP to the VM. Is that what you guys do during tests? I'm asking because I'd like to use Hyper-V on my Dell Laptop for a presentation I'm giving next month at a user group meeting. Thanks.

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Accessing Windows 8 Client-side hyper-V using a screen reader
by Katherine Moss 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Hi all, Has anyone figured out an accessible way to access Hyper-V virtual machines located on a computer running windows 8.1 client-side Hyper-V? I would think, that since unlike VMware, who offers virtual soundcard emulation, it would not be possible accept via RDP to the VM. Is that what you guys do during tests? I'm asking because I'd like to use Hyper-V on my Dell Laptop for a presentation I'm giving next month at a user group meeting. Thanks.

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FW: How to sell yourself to employers as a blind, but capable technologist
by Katherine Moss 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

-----Original Message----- From: Katherine Moss Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 2:47 PM Subject: How to sell yourself to employers as a blind, but capable technologist Hello all, My name is Katherine Moss, and let me tell you. Boy do I wish I had discovered this list years ago. I have been a technologist/administrator for the past ten years dabbling in everything from Windows to most recently Linux. I'm wondering what you guys have done to sell yourself to employers during interviews to get hired at your fulfilling jobs. I desire greatly to become a paid systems administrator and not just have technology as a hobby. I have a degree in English, though I'm planning on getting a certificate in network technologies and administration at Bunker Hill Community College (I am from Massachusetts). As of right now, regardless of the fact that I do have experience, employers are getting tripped up by my lack of official vender certifications, as well as my blindness. I will admit that I'm very open about my blindness, using it as a jumping off point to launch accessibility awareness campaigns rather than brooding over it. I'm wondering if my openness during the first interview at a job could be hurting me? I ask this because qualifications can't be the problem since I'm a member of a couple of user groups here in New England, and not many of us have computer science degrees at all. What has been your take on this? Thanks.

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