>
>
> 2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International) : if my people, who are called by my
> name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their
> wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and
> will heal their land.
>
> ---
Yeah, I saw their website last weekend; my daughter saw a billboard
here in town advertising their site. All jobs are in Texas and I
ain't selling my house here in Tempe in this horrible housing market!
It didn't sound like they would entertain telecommuting. Although
maybe I should call someone
ce on and I
> definitely need to arrange transport.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > I don't know if you wanted private replies or have them posted to the list
> > but Thunderbird didn't make it easy for me to reply p
I don't know if you wanted private replies or have them posted to the
list but Thunderbird didn't make it easy for me to reply privately so
here's one nomination so far.
I would like to nominate elinks, a really fine text based web browser.
Unfortunately, the javascript support is very poor at
hospital so I had other things on my mind. I'll try to get back up
there today or tomorrow. Sorry!
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Steve Holmes mailto:st...@holmesgrown.com>> wrote:
Did you ever get a chance to check out your Brother printer? I
recall
two.
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > That sounds close. The 2270DW is a duplex laser printer with wireless
> > capability which Office Max had on sale a few weeks ago for $99.95.
> > That $80 price sounds like the wired-only version (mo
aterials would be nice. I tried
> >> asking on IRC. perl_splut suggested that video and/or audio was improbable
> >> but that I might try the mailing-list as a place to try and reach Steve
> >> Holmes in the hope that he might avail his materials.
> >
> >
This situation reminds me of the old school photography developers who
develop some guy's film and comes across a bunch of port pictures. I
recall movies and news stuff in the past where those pictures can be
used as evidents against him by law enforcement.
Now the question of a computer repair s
one
hint as to a running server and then see if you could use a remote
computer to make my computer start talking with speech and say what
you want it to.
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 05:25:50PM -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Steve Holmes wrote
ent from which you print? Does it include graphics? I should be
> able to get to the club computer in the next day or two.
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > That sounds close. The 2270DW is a duplex laser printer with wireless
> > capability wh
, I bought one for my computer club and
> can go check it out there. I recall having a problem installing it for
> ubuntu but think I got it working.
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > I wonder if anyone can help me out here. I have a Brother 2270DW
I wonder if anyone can help me out here. I have a Brother 2270DW
connected to my local area network and have the IP address locked in
with the static DHCP leases. From the text console, printing works
fine when I use the lp or lpr commands through CUPS. However, when I
try to print anything from
chromium-browser).
>
> hey steve, did you have a set presentation outline for your accessibility
> presentation at the east side plug meeting? if co, can I borrow some of it?
>
> -Eric
>
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > Sorry for such a late
I know you have been mentioning in several threads the need for some
material. What I plan for my meeting spot is definitely
demonstrations. I figure the demo activity will consume maybe 2/3rds
of the time and the remaining be explanation, a bit of historical
perspective and Q&A. I don't have it
much presentation before). I have some
> >> idea of the technologies I can touch on (braille, text to speech,
> >> magnification). I use TTS almost exclusively now. I haven't the funds to
> >> afford braille output tech here and magnification has been beyond my
>
Yeah, I see that pdftohtml is a part of the poppler package in Arch
Linux. I believe if you use 'pdftohtml -layout ' you might get
better results. Personally, I'm only interested in the text portion
so I could be clueless as to what happened visually to the outcome.
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:38
Sorry for such a late reply here but I'm catching up on this list. I
personally like Arch Linux. It is very current because of the rolling
update concept and dispite this concept, the system is much more
stable than Debian Unstable for example. It kinda reminds me of
Slackware with the need for
I still plan to do a presentation on Linux accessiblility for the blind
at the east side meeting in February at MCC. I assume that slot is
still open; I didn't make it last week to confirm anything.
I'm guessing I will use about an hour to hour and half unless questions
take us beyond that.
I hope your studying of emacs goes well. I've wandered back and forth
between emacs and emacs and I always keep gravitating back toward emacs.
I tend to use vim to do quick editing like in .conf files or a quick
tweek to a shell script but any heavy editting like text e-mails and
stuff, it's
Hey Eric,
Thanks for posting this news bit. I wasn't aware of their financial
plite. I'll take a look at their site and see how much I can give. It
amazes me how many people will download gobs of free software (free of
charge and free as in speech) and not give back a dime or a minute of
t
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 02:24:50PM -0700, j...@actionline.com wrote:
> mplayer --gui video.wmv ... did not work for me.
>
> I was able to install xine-ui from synaptic, but it makes terrible noises
> when running (like very loud white-noise).
>
> mplayer works fine, except it opens a huge termina
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:48:03PM -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> We simply cannot allow these bots to spam the site; PLUG is an older Drupal
> that doesn't include the "human verification" tests.
These human verification tests you refer to, often include CAPTCHA.
As far as I'm concerned, most CAPTC
Linux? Did you look in any others (sounds like not yet)? And what did you
> have to do after adding the usb entry (like remaster an iso, or ...)?
>
> Larry
>
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > GOOD NEWS!!!
> >
> > I got it working.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:39:10AM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 07:03:07PM -0700, Tom Jones wrote:
> > I believe that's AZStrut.
>
> That's what I'm looking for. Thanks.
Yeah, Data Doctors locations will gladly accept stuff for recycling
and I understand the usable stuf
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:01:40AM -0700, Technomage Hawke wrote:
> hey steve, you live on the west side, don't you?
Nope, just a 10 to 15 minute single bus ride over Southern Avenue from
my house in Tempe.
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I can pick up some good quality paper plates and stuff and bring them
over; what about pop? I just came across this note this morning so
don't have time to prepare something but can bring drinks or some
pre-made potatoe salad. Surprisingly, Fry's country potatoe salad
tastes pretty good to me:).
Yes, I commend you for going for the command line tools like that.
Tackling rsync is no slouch by any means. Frankly, I can rarely
remember all the command line options for rsync and have to either
constantly look at the man page or previous working examples. I would
also create little one or two
Yeah, I'm in the process of learning some new skills since mainframe
software programming has gone to the pasture to be burried!
I regret I didn't pick up and begin learning some of the newer
technologies some years ago so no time like now to get started. I've
been giving thought to sys admin wo
GOOD NEWS!!!
I got it working. I can now boot on this external drive without
having to jump start from a live cd and chroot or any of that.
It seems that my mkinitcpio.conf did not include 'usb' as one of the
hooks for building the initial RAMFS image. I figured the RAMFS was
failing some how s
Eric,
Audacity works sort of in Orca but as a side by side comparison, I
would use Goldwave in that other OS for accessibility purposes.
But if all you want to do is capture the audio stream from the net, I
would use mplayer and I will paste in a little ditty script I use to
make the command eas
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 07:26:33PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Sure, that is why someone told you above to use the UUID to identify the
> drive instead of the changeagble /dev/?da type references. Here is a
> reference:
>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID
With this last test, I did use t
I have begun to learn and use git somewhat extensively over the past
year or so and am really liking it. To me it seems just so much more
powerful than svn or even cvs for that matter. Of course, with that
power, comes complexity and a steeper learning curve. I have a few
notes that other git us
> It uses the current version
> On Dec 6, 2010 5:13 PM, "Steve Holmes" wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 05:04:43PM -0700, Stephen wrote:
> >> you know, you probably could use Wubi, and install Linux into a flat
> >> file on top of NTFS... but still might
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 05:04:43PM -0700, Stephen wrote:
> you know, you probably could use Wubi, and install Linux into a flat
> file on top of NTFS... but still might be simpler...
I thought about Wubi at first but from what I read, it sounds like it
uses an old version of Ubuntu. I didn't thin
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 04:27:21PM -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
> Does your initrd/ramfs/whatever have the ehci_hcd, scsi_mod, sd_mod, usbcore,
> and usb_storage modules available in it? Are those modules loaded? If this
> thing was always going to run from a USB drive and I had control over the
> k
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 04:49:32PM -0500, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
> >Did you do anything special to get your installed system to run on the
> >external drive?
> Nope, bu I have seen what you mention before.
> It normally due to a BIOS issue, how old is the puter?
Oh, I bought the thing last
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:52:15PM -0700, Stephen wrote:
> well depending on what drives you are using for OS you can dual-boot
> with both OS's on the same drive then use the remaining drives for
> data. but my preference is to give windows its own drive and a
> "untouched" boot-sector just in cas
menu to select booting from the USB drive.
>
> Larry
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>
> > We have a joint install/hack fest at UAT next Saturday the 11th also?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Steve H
Did you do anything special to get your installed system to run on the
external drive? In a separate thread here, I've been trying to do this
vary same thing but my latest problem is I can't get the RAMFS to hand
off to the full system on the same drive from which the boot image was
just successful
27;re experiencing (UUID was introduced exactly
> because modern controllers may reorder drives on boot).
>
> ==Joseph++
>
> Steve Holmes wrote:
> > Well, I have some more progress or updates on this problem. I still
> > can't get the thing to but from the USB ex
ould I look for anything else?
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 08:40:44AM -0700, Stephen wrote:
> I think it is having trouble with the order of hardware devices.
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > The drive boots after all but only as far as grub. I found out
&
gt; On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > The drive boots after all but only as far as grub. I found out
> > earlier today that the grub menu comes up but it fails to find the
> > file systems for booting the actual system. It looks like I will have
>
have had a drive that really worked with that.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Steve Holmes
> > wrote:
> > > That's rather annoying when some drive manufacturer forces us to leave
> > > their junk on the drive when we wish to do otherwise with it.
>
I will probably do that in the future. I got this one on a cheap
Black Friday special so isn't a bad machine but I don't wanna void the
warrentee by taring into it to change out the drive. That's why I was
messing about with this work-around.
As an update to my problem, I found out today that gr
That answers my question; I was wondering about a good solution that I
could backup my windows stuff with. The HP software that comes with
the machine is so inaccessible to screen readers, I need another
solution for that task. I've heard people mention clonezilla;
definitely have to give that a
t;firmware" that resides on the USB-PATA bridge that has about
> 3-400 MB of stuff on it and mounts as a CD. this definitely fouled all
> my attempts at booting to the device.
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I got a new machine which (of course
I got a new machine which (of course) has Windows pre-installed and
I'm not ready to dump it entirely just yet so in the meantime, I built
out a complete Arch Linux 64-bit system on a portable USB external
drive. I also used or tried to use grub to set it up to boot. During
the original settup se
Hey, if you can find that 'cookbook' could you let us know? that
sounds like a really cool thing. How about that linux running on a
computer at the public library, eh?
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:26:02AM -0500, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
> I am not sure that I understand the problem, but I hav
ative. there is adriane knoppix (latest release is 6.2. its a
> basic live desktop with gnome and orca. it will work from cd or install to HD
> for faster operations. it features a text only interface that offers several
> options.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 6:16 PM, S
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 03:16:15PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 10. Nov, 2010 schwätzte Rob Wultsch so:
>
> moin moin,
>
> >I recently gave a controversial presentation at PG West about MySQL
> >and would be willing to repeat it for AZPHP or the PLUG. Any interest?
>
> Definitely.
>
> We have pr
't found any distro that supports emacspeak on a PPC yet. about as
> small as I can get is a base install of gnome with no frills..
>
> -Eric
>
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > Oh, I forgot you were trying this on a Power PC (PCP). The
g loop; there is a stop sign and crosswalk here.
> Continue South, crossing the parking loop, for another 30 meters to second
> accessible sidewalk ramp.
> That should leave you at the North walking path into the main campus, and we
> will try to find you there.
>
> Steve Holmes wrot
; of the noacpi flag in the yaboot.conf file. it still happens, only it takes a
> little longer. I will also have to look up what commands I have on startup
> that I can dispense with (120 processes on a machine with 384 MB of ram is a
> bit much).
>
> anyway, its up and runnin
I'm a big fan of Arch Linux. Go to www.archlinux.org and look around
in the wiki for archlinux for the blind or something like that. Chris
Brannon has developed a talking boot image with speech at the text
console. From there, one can install gnome, gnome-extra to get Orca
going. Sorry, I don't
g lot of
> MCC and figure out where we want to go and then go there at about
> 7:15
>
> If that sounds good to everyone, then lets proceed with that plan.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 11/09/2010 08:08 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> >Given that this Thursday is Vetrens'
Given that this Thursday is Vetrens' day and MCC is going to be closed
that day, are we still having the east side meeting? If so, where?
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I'm the guy Hans referred to, giving a presentation for the east side
next February (I believe). I also would be glad to help out wherever
here. I heard something about the foundation for blind children a
ways back. If they still need any linux help, I'd be glad to help out
there too. I do have
And sometimes my alias one-liners grow to something more like a short
script and then I have my own bin directory where I stick them; there,
I can expand on them over time into a more powerful and flexible mini
application in some cases.
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 08:34:38AM -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:38:24AM -0700, JD Austin wrote:
> It's probably good that you pointed that out Steve. I've never been a
> graphic designer but I've done a lot of websites in my time. One of my 'big
> beefs' with a lot of websites is that they make no effort whatsoever to be
> usable wi
I appreciate your interest in looking to the community for ideas for
development support. However I am concerned about what you are
seeking in your web design goals. I as a blind person, take
particular exception to things like heavy animation and eye candy!
Frankly, eye candy most often flies in
Anyone know what is going on with the east side meeting this evening?
I can't find anything on the website with any details.
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Based on this original thread, I thought they were looking for
presentations for the plug-dev portion. I thought that would be more
developer oriented. I have some things I would like to present to
more generalist like regular plug meeting on second Thursdays.
In particular, I would like to make
I know Arch Linux has a talking bootable CD available but that would
be for Entel processors so I dunno if it could be made to work on a
Powerbook G3.
Once you do have a working Linux system going on whatever machine, you
can start up gnome and use Orca and that is all keyboard accessible.
On Sat
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 06:47:11AM -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> Just a reminder:
>
> When the polls close at the appointed time, EVERYONE who is IN LINE
> or inside MUST be allowed to vote.
>
> You CANNOT be turned away IF you were at least in the line, let
> alone, inside
>
> Do not allow a
After reading this huge long thread, I'm down to a few points and I
want to try and include linux in here as that is what this list is
supposed to be about.
I see some inconsistancy with the "conservative values" and even the
open source / free software movements. Many (largely conservative)
peop
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:24:58PM -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
>Actually, they are.
>
>Every poling place (at least in Maricopa County) has at least one voting
>machine that has headphones, has braille ballots, large-type, touch-screen
>voting.and have had for about 4 years or so
Hi Eric,
Dunno about the early voting thing but I've been using the audio
voting at the poling place for the past 4 years and generally, it's
great. Good speech and easy to use and understand. the only hitches
have been some of the pole workers are so technically challenged that
they have troubl
Another thing I've started doing is to use a local ftp client like
lftp and connect with a protocol that supports sftp. Sftp runs under
the ssh channel as long as sftp is also installed. so if I were
sitting on machine a, I could use the ftp client or even the sftp
command, for that matter, to lo
I'm not sure what distros have to do with Firefox working or not but I
use ArchLinux here and I use Firefox all the time. I mainly use
downloaded binaries from trunk instead of the Arch binary because I
want latest version so I can try and keep up with accessibility bug
fixes. In the case of trun
I thought I had it bad having to pay $750 per month but it is an HMO
so we don't have those God-awful high deductibles. I retired from
state service this year, after getting laid off this spring.
Sorry for the politics, but I think we need a good strong single payer
system like they have in Ger
Yes, I have found the manual in HTML format that comes with the linux
postgresql package to be quite informative. If I remember right, I
think there are sections that explain some data modeling concepts. I
found some really good examples in there concerning inner and outer
join queries too.
On M
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:15:19PM -0700, Technomage_Hawke wrote:
> on the linux related note: I am planning to install a speech/braille enabled
> Linux OS to one of my machines soon. only problem, I have yet to find one
> that has speech enabled from the boot up. any suggestions?
Yes, I use Arc
Well since this whole thread pertains to the question of top posting
vs bottom posting, I went even one further. I just reply with an
empty message! This is one reason I love mutt as my e-mail client;
I'll give reasons as I go along.
I think for expedient reading, reading from the top and hearing
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Another distro worth exploring and very scaleable is Arch Linux
http://www.archlinux.org
I use it here on my desktop with its "rolling updates". It reminds me
a bit like Slackware but the package creation and dependency tracking
is much better.
t when you run startx as a regular
> user.
>
> Try running startx from root, and login as a regular user and see if that
> works.
>
>
>
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:26:55AM -0700, Nathan England wrote:
>
> Are you a member of the hal or dbus groups? Or possibly policykit ?
>
> hal - 82
> dbus - 81
> policykit - 102
>
> Check those groups.
No, my normal user is not a member of an
ined in your system and their
> > permissions to do things. The ability for a normal user to use removable
> > [and writeable] devices which would commonly be denied to normal users in
> > some environments.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Steve Ho
er only. If it does not the problem is likely
> something to do with how "normal" users are defined in your system and their
> permissions to do things. The ability for a normal user to use removable
> [and writeable] devices which would commonly be denied to normal users i
e help would be greately appreciated. BTW, thanks for
the link though; that gave me something to try.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:35:41AM -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Have you seen this?
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77716
>
> Steve Holmes wrote:
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I have a question and a problem here with the automounting of drives
and media in Gnome. Let me try and sort out what I know here. On my
normal user account, when I plug in a USB drive of any kind, the
automount feature of gnome doesn't take hol
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