Re: console speech

2016-05-25 Thread Eric Oyen
yes, google is your friend, but it can sometimes create more hassle than it's worth. Like giving you 30 million hits for a search and having none of what you need be on the first 5 pages. Believe me, I have had that happen more than once. I have no issues with pulse audio myself, but then, I am

Re: need to skip vinux and install ubuntu

2016-06-08 Thread Eric Oyen
hmmm. I wish I could get that far. I have a windows machine (and this mac), but I can't get either to make a bootable USB stick because the 1 tool needed is bloody inaccessible. the tool is Unetbootn and its nothing but graphics in windows (tested with 3 screen readers there) and all but invisib

Re: need to skip vinux and install ubuntu

2016-06-08 Thread Eric Oyen
han a USB stick or 2. see the problem here? -eric On Jun 8, 2016, at 2:11 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > There is an accessible tool for linux called rufus. > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 04:50:28 >> From: Eric Oyen >> Reply-To:

Re: need to skip vinux and install ubuntu

2016-06-08 Thread Eric Oyen
ible tool for linux called rufus. >> >> On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 04:50:28 >>> From: Eric Oyen >>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion >>> To: Linux for blind general discussion >>> Subjec

Re: need to skip vinux and install ubuntu

2016-06-08 Thread Eric Oyen
#x27;s more accurate. Well, it's usually more accurate. > You might have to read more than one page for that. > > On 06/08/2016 01:38 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: >> ah ok. teaches me not to read the entire thread. :) so, now all I have to do >> is look for it. >> >> -eri

Re: I broke Vinux.

2016-11-12 Thread Eric Oyen
I agree! what does this spam have to do with Linux and Blindness? -eric ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Re: frustrate shouldservers

2017-02-02 Thread Eric Oyen
well, you could also use a little linux utility called "pwgen". It can generate short or very long sequences of characters for passwords (the last time I tried, I created a rainbow dictionary from password strings that started at 3 characters and ended somewhere around 50 long. The dictionary I

Re: frustrate shouldservers

2017-02-03 Thread Eric Oyen
here is another one for you. there is another utility called "jive". take your original passphrase, run it through that and then use that to generate a hash. good luck guessing that one. :) -eric from the central office of the Technomage Guild On Feb 3, 2017, at 10:25 AM, Janina Sajka wrote: >

Re: frustrate shouldservers

2017-02-03 Thread Eric Oyen
. Hardly anyone is able to do that over a /24, let > alone a /16 or /8. > > Now, if I could just find a SIP to PSTN gateway service provider that > supports IPv6 and would allow me to port in a PSTN number I've had for > over 20 years ... > > Eric Oyen writes: >>

Re: frustrate shouldservers

2017-02-03 Thread Eric Oyen
hmmm. I wonder if that python script will work on my OS X lion macbook here. could make for an interesting test. -eric from the central office of the Technomage Guild On Feb 3, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > If you want a password generator that can produce fairly strong > "XKCD" password

Re: frustrate shouldservers

2017-02-04 Thread Eric Oyen
well, just for shits and grins (pardon my language folks), w On Feb 4, 2017, at 5:01 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > It should be interesting to see if google now has a page available for the > original British braille system by now.hile I was up at the colorado center > for the blind, I proposed an

Re: frustrate shouldservers

2017-02-04 Thread Eric Oyen
pardon my last email folks, it appears that some of my text got misplaced in the document. perhaps I should use my braille sense to type it next time. -eric On Feb 4, 2017, at 5:01 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > It should be interesting to see if google now has a page available for the > original

Re: frustrate shouldservers

2017-02-04 Thread Eric Oyen
here is the cleaned up version folks. looks like my old macbook is developing some quirks. *** well, just for shits and grins (pardon my language folks), while I was up at the colorado center for the blind, I proposed an idea of encrypted braille. the idea was so nasty that the braille instru

Re: frustrate shouldservers

2017-02-04 Thread Eric Oyen
d with them was to set > character distribution rules for each page and put the box into effect and > had those to break up cipher strings and make messages more difficult to cra! ck. > > On Sat, 4 Feb 2017, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 11:13:04 >> From: E

Re: frustrate shouldservers

2017-02-04 Thread Eric Oyen
so, thoughts? -eric from the central office of the Technomage Guild. On Feb 4, 2017, at 6:45 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > On February 4, 2017, Eric Oyen wrote: >> btw, I use a fairly simple password scheme thats easy for me to >> remember and nearly impossible for anyone to guess it. it&

Re: frustrate shouldservers

2017-02-04 Thread Eric Oyen
and use all keyboard generated characters, symbols and numbers. -eric from the central office of the Technomage Guild On Feb 4, 2017, at 8:27 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2017-02-04 20:19, Eric Oyen wrote: >> the third part is the date I joined (in MM/DD/:HH:MM:SS >> format).

Re: Sonar GNU/Linux merges with Vinux

2017-03-16 Thread Eric Oyen
well, emotionalism aside, a lot of what you have to say appears based in the realistic fact that we, as a community, don't have an actual unified distro to call our own. Sure, Vinux is a decent distro, but it's lacking a lot of useful features outside of accessibility. I, myself, use Ubuntu pri

Re: Sonar GNU/Linux merges with Vinux

2017-03-16 Thread Eric Oyen
and now we see the crux of the issue. its called a lack of proper attention to the problem. this is the biggest holdup to a lot of us blind folks, lack of coherent information. It's most telling in the local activities and events arena, but it shows up in technology as well. SOunds like it's ti

Re: Sonar GNU/Linux merges with Vinux

2017-03-16 Thread Eric Oyen
gt;> 16 mars 2017 kl. 21:57 skrev Eric Oyen : >> >> and now we see the crux of the issue. its called a lack of proper attention >> to the problem. >> >> this is the biggest holdup to a lot of us blind folks, lack of coherent >> information. It's

Re: Sonar GNU/Linux merges with Vinux

2017-03-16 Thread Eric Oyen
device as some ultra secret patented device (A black box). I'd take mine apart if I didn't need it for some things. -eric from the central office of the Technomage Guild, Division 6. On Mar 16, 2017, at 4:36 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > Eric Oyen wrote: > >> ...we, as a community

Re: Sonar GNU/Linux merges with Vinux

2017-03-16 Thread Eric Oyen
h Ubuntu you get > with Vinux. > > On 16/03/17 14:42, Eric Oyen wrote: >> well, >> emotionalism aside, a lot of what you have to say appears based in the >> realistic fact that we, as a community, don't have an actual unified distro >> to call our own. Sure,

Re: Sonar GNU/Linux merges with Vinux

2017-03-16 Thread Eric Oyen
his gives me the text consoles and I can install them and speakup does the > work. > I do NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD all that way. > once they are installed, I just ssh to them. > > > > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> that was one of the things

Re: installing bsd with speech

2017-03-21 Thread Eric Oyen
d.img >> >> Remember, these commands are probably put on more than one line by the >> mailer software. >> This works on anything with a text-based install, freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, >> pfsense etc... >> >> Have fun. >> >> >> On Thu, 1

Re: installing bsd with speech

2017-03-22 Thread Eric Oyen
I have been a pro user of OpenBSD for years. It was a lot easier to use when all I had to deal with was low vision on a big display. Pros to OpenBSD: 1. best firewall out there, hands down 2. application jails 3. server jails 4. secured IPC 5. able to run on 2 GB or less reliably 6. takes minimal

Re: installing bsd with speech

2017-03-22 Thread Eric Oyen
I will have to dig up the old info on server jails. It might be related to application jails. -eric On Mar 22, 2017, at 7:32 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > On March 22, 2017, Eric Oyen wrote: >> I have been a pro user of OpenBSD for years. It was a lot easier to >> use when all I had t

Re: installing bsd with speech

2017-03-23 Thread Eric Oyen
OS X and apple used a modified BSD kernel (they called it Darwin). Also, because of the narrow range of hardware they allow their OS to be installed on, just about all of the modules that would normally be externally loaded are actually compiled in. Apple also kept the standard execution environ

Re: installing bsd with speech

2017-03-28 Thread Eric Oyen
yep. that is exactly it. the device has windows CE 6 on it with a number of apps (youtube, Facebook, a web browser, a dozen or so games, text editor, database manager, etc. THe Braille Sense U2 also has bluetooth, wifi, LAN port, USB ports, an SD card slot, built-in FM radio and GPS unit and a

Re: spammers on this list

2017-04-14 Thread Eric Oyen
its no biggie here. I simply have their email and other particulars filtered right into the spam folder. now back to the subject at hand…. -eric On Apr 14, 2017, at 10:52 AM, John G Heim wrote: > If anyone else is tired of getting these messages from spammers every time > you post to this lis

Re: spammers on this list

2017-04-15 Thread Eric Oyen
well, there is one thing that could be done that would definitely lock out spammers. use of GpG encrypted email and just have everyone share their GpG fingerprints. At that point, most spam bots would be locked out. This wouldn't prevent them from sending to you, but it certainly would make it fa

Re: Sonar GNU/Linux merges with Vinux

2017-04-18 Thread Eric Oyen
mail.me/r> for iPhone >> >> On Apr 18, 2017 at 6:32 AM, Tony Baechler > <mailto:t...@baechler.net>> wrote: >> Sorry for the late reply, but see comments below. >> >> On 3/16/2017 3:36 PM, Joel Roth wrote: >>> Eric Oyen wrote: >>> >&g