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win7 power and not waking up with wireless keyboard or mouse
by David Mehler 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

Hello, I've got a new win7 64 bit machine. It's not working power wise, when it goes to sleep, it does not shut down it's fans, nor can I get wireless devices, I've got a wireless keyboard/mouse attached to it, and neither will wake it up. Currently, i've got a usb wired mouse hooked up and it takes that to get it to come back. I was thinking it has something to do with the system's power plan, and not sure why though it won't shut down fans, nor why wired keyboards and mice can get it to wake up, but wireless same can not. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Dave.

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grml from usb
by David Mehler 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

Hello, I've got a system relatively new that my grml 2011.05 CD doesn't like. I'm getting an error about mount squashfs does not exist. I'm assuming my hardware is either to new, or 64 bit system and a 32 bit disk. In any case it isn't working. I am downloading the grml96 2013.02 iso and I'm going to write it to a usb stick. To those who have done this I'm wanting to use grml2usb so I can pass some boot parameters to the process. I do have a virtual machine running Ubuntu 12.04 so hopefully can run the grml2usb from that. Comments so far? What I'm wanting to know is is the option swspeak still available from the boot prompt in the latest 2013.02 iso for loading speakup with software speech? If so i'd like to pass that as a boot option so that I will get automatic speech. Comments welcome. Thanks. Dave.

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grml from usb
by David Mehler 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

Hello, I've got a system relatively new that my grml 2011.05 CD doesn't like. I'm getting an error about mount squashfs does not exist. I'm assuming my hardware is either to new, or 64 bit system and a 32 bit disk. In any case it isn't working. I am downloading the grml96 2013.02 iso and I'm going to write it to a usb stick. To those who have done this I'm wanting to use grml2usb so I can pass some boot parameters to the process. I do have a virtual machine running Ubuntu 12.04 so hopefully can run the grml2usb from that. Comments so far? What I'm wanting to know is is the option swspeak still available from the boot prompt in the latest 2013.02 iso for loading speakup with software speech? If so i'd like to pass that as a boot option so that I will get automatic speech. Comments welcome. Thanks. Dave.

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c++
by Ibrahim Mahsoub 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

hello my name is ibrahem mahsoub i will take my place in a c++ course with sighted students would any one share good information to understand the lectures. any scripts needed and things thank you and sorry for my english at all -- ibrahem mahsoub blind computerest

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USB linux versions with speech out of the box
by David Mehler 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Hello, I'm looking for recommendations for a linux distro or one I can use that can be put on to a thumb drive, booted from same, and then comes up with either cli or graphical speech. All information appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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USB linux versions with speech out of the box
by David Mehler 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Hello, I'm looking for recommendations for a linux distro or one I can use that can be put on to a thumb drive, booted from same, and then comes up with either cli or graphical speech. All information appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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Win7 64 bit install, gigabyte motherboard, uefi
by David Mehler 04 Aug '13

04 Aug '13

Hello, I'm trying to install via unattend.xml a win7 x64 version on a machine with a gigabyte motherboard. I'm wanting to use gpt partitions and do the install in uefi mode not bios. I've set up in my unattend partitions efi and msr as well as my primary ntfs partition for the install. I'm getting an error from win7 setup that the disk can not be installed in gpt mode. I'm speculating this is because the setup was started in bios not uefi mode. This is a new board and I'm wondering if anyone has had this and has a fix? To get the setup I have in bios boot order CD/DVD is second on the list, and I press c to boot from CD. Thanks. Dave.

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Win7 64 bit install, gigabyte motherboard, uefi
by David Mehler 04 Aug '13

04 Aug '13

Hello, I'm trying to install via unattend.xml a win7 x64 version on a machine with a gigabyte motherboard. I'm wanting to use gpt partitions and do the install in uefi mode not bios. I've set up in my unattend partitions efi and msr as well as my primary ntfs partition for the install. I'm getting an error from win7 setup that the disk can not be installed in gpt mode. I'm speculating this is because the setup was started in bios not uefi mode. This is a new board and I'm wondering if anyone has had this and has a fix? To get the setup I have in bios boot order CD/DVD is second on the list, and I press c to boot from CD. Thanks. Dave.

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Time / holiday / absence tracking and management?
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Good morning, In my new role I'm managing a small team of people. I need a way of tracking absences sick leave, holidays and other scheduling things like this. I have sharepoint installed. I also have Exchange 2010. What would you suggest I use that would integrate with these two systems to meet this requirement? In my last job they had a great leave management system. It probably cost a fortune though as it was managed globally by Fujitsu. Now I'm in a company with at most 16 employees and only eight of us are full time! I've gone from system administrator to manager, support person, project scheduler, code patcher and database tuner in the space of two months. It's such a huge change from managing hundreds of servers. I think managing a small company is a lot harder even though the availability of hundreds of servers resting on my shoulders seemed hard at the time. I kind of miss it actually! Darragh

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Time / holiday / absence tracking and management?
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Good morning, In my new role I'm managing a small team of people. I need a way of tracking absences sick leave, holidays and other scheduling things like this. I have sharepoint installed. I also have Exchange 2010. What would you suggest I use that would integrate with these two systems to meet this requirement? In my last job they had a great leave management system. It probably cost a fortune though as it was managed globally by Fujitsu. Now I'm in a company with at most 16 employees and only eight of us are full time! I've gone from system administrator to manager, support person, project scheduler, code patcher and database tuner in the space of two months. It's such a huge change from managing hundreds of servers. I think managing a small company is a lot harder even though the availability of hundreds of servers resting on my shoulders seemed hard at the time. I kind of miss it actually! Darragh

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