Did you have to recompile the kernel to install Speakup? For some reason, I thought that Speakup wasn't available as Debian packages.
On Aug 29, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Keith Watson wrote: > Actually I just googled debian vmware and appliance. I can't remember the > name of the image, but that should get you something. After getting the image > and booting it I had to ssh to it from my MAC terminal and update it to sid, > then install speakup. It was fairly painless. > > I suppose that if there is enough interest I could put together a generic > version of my image with speakup installed and make it available to the > public. > > Keith > On Aug 29, 2010, at 2:01 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > >> Do you have a pointer to a good image? >> >> On Aug 28, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Keith Watson wrote: >> >>> All well and good to have these tools available on the MAC. The only >>> problem is that VO access to the terminal is cumbersome at best. My >>> solution to this is to run a Debian VM and use speakup. Much better access >>> to it's term there, and if I need to do anything on my MAC i just ssh over >>> and take care of it that way. >>> >>> Just my 2 cents. >>> >>> Keith >>> >>> >>> On Aug 28, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Scott Granados wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, you have telnet, ssh, ftp and all the standard clients you'd expect. >>>> I'm sure you could enable daemons to accept connections as well although >>>> consider the security implications of doing that please.:) >>>> >>>> >>>> On Aug 28, 2010, at 5:58 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: >>>> >>>>> excuse my nose here, but in theory would that let you say tellnet to a >>>>> site or service that itself is shell associated? >>>>> sorry if I am over guessing what one might do with that sort of bash. >>>>> still I would think you could run programs that way? >>>>> Karen >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Dave Taylor wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I don't know anything about this side of using a Mac at all. Is there a >>>>>> good >>>>>> place to learn about it, right from scratch? I'll probably hardly need >>>>>> it, >>>>>> but would certainly like to know just in case. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> Dave >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Josh Kennedy >>>>>> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:36 PM >>>>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>>> Subject: the unix shell and mac terminal >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi >>>>>> Over the past few weeks I have been running vinux 3.0 lucid in a virtual >>>>>> machine and have been playing with it. And then recently I went into the >>>>>> terminal on my mac in snow leopard and typed some commands and >>>>>> surprisingly >>>>>> I find that most of the commands I can perform in vinux I can also do >>>>>> with >>>>>> the terminal or the mac's unix shell. It's really cool. The only >>>>>> difference >>>>>> I can see in the mac is that it uses the darwin kernel while vinux uses >>>>>> the >>>>>> linux kernel. Oh and guys if you go into a terminal in your mac and type: >>>>>> man ls >>>>>> you can even read the unix man pages there. The only thing that doesn't >>>>>> work >>>>>> is apt-get command. I'm not sure if dpkg works or not, I haven't tried >>>>>> it. >>>>>> I'll try right now. Well guys dpkg also does not work. The mac's shell >>>>>> reminds me very much of vinux 3.0 lucid though. >>>>>> If you type >>>>>> uname -a >>>>>> it will tell you the kernel version among other things. >>>>>> If you type: >>>>>> man ls >>>>>> it will bring up the man page for the ls list directory command. to quit >>>>>> the >>>>>> man pages just press the letter q,. To close terminal hit command q. You >>>>>> can >>>>>> even hit tab and it will autocomplete commands for you. I imagine the >>>>>> unix >>>>>> shell is very powerful, even on the mac. And I'm glad mac uses the bash >>>>>> shell. Vinux uses it too. I doubt voxin would work on the mac since >>>>>> voxin I >>>>>> think is compiled for the linux kernel and not the darwin version10 >>>>>> kernel. >>>>>> >>>>>> Josh Kennedy >>>>>> jkenn...@gmail.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > Ryan Mann rmann0...@gmail.com Follow me on Facebook. http://m.facebook.com/profile.php?r170f8385&refid=7 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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