Microsoft Virtual PC got as far as the starting screen for ubuntu and then just kind of stopped. However I did find that with the live cd feature it has, you can just burn ubuntu to a cd, reboot the computer press enter after waiting for a little while, After a few minutes I heard the ubuntu music and a couple minutes later was loaded on the gnome desktop. Once I was on the knome desktop, I pressed alt f2 to bring up the run box, typed in "orca" then pressed enter. Orca began to speak with E Speak as its tts engine. Orca will start you out at a configuration menu to choose the language etc. The problem I had was when it asked me to log out and I did that then logged back in Orca would not speak much of anything. In fact it wouldn't even speak its own preferences screen. Any ideas on what went wrong?
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There will be more to come from Blind Crawler very soon. Administrator: John Greer Blind Crawler.com----- Original Message ----- From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 5:40 PM Subject: Re: Microsoft Virtual PC
if you find out please let me/us know regards, inthane. For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at:http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com. to be able to view a simple programming project in several programming languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com----- Original Message ----- From: "John Greer" <jpgreer17@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 10:12 AM Subject: Re: Microsoft Virtual PCJust tested Virtual PC on my machine with Jaws and the command prompt did come up once I set everything up but alas, Jaws did not want to read the virtual machines window. The setup process for it is very accessible though. I would assume that a person could once everything is created and running install Linux to it and run it from there. Would be curious to know whether Mac OS could be run on it, since it claims to run x86 operating systems, and the later versions of Mac OS do run on Intel processors. JohnPG search for all of your Jaws scripts at http://www.blindcrawler.com/ Also be sure to check out Blind Crawler's Legend of the Green Dragon server at http://www.blindcrawler.com/lotg/There will be more to come from Blind Crawler very soon. Administrator: John Greer Blind Crawler.com----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:09 AM Subject: Re: Microsoft Virtual PCOk, but VMWare also cannot allow Jaws to access the virtual machines if it is installed only on the host machine.I haven't tried MS Virtual PC yet, so I don't know if it is better or worse than VMWare. Maybe somebody who tried it can compare it with VMWare.Octavian----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 6:14 PM Subject: Re: Microsoft Virtual PCthe systems can be installed on it but the virtual machines screens are being drawn directly so no screen readers installed on the hiost machine can read screens from the virtual machines. Other than this it's a question of preferenses. As most part of things there're several sites comparing the virtualiuzation technologies, each one claiming one of them is better than other. I've choosen vmware although others can choose different solutions. Marlon 2007/11/5, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>:Hi, Does anyone if Microsoft Virtual PC is accessible to Jaws?I mean, I know that the main program is accessible, but I don't know ifafter creating the Virtual machines they are accessible for the blind. This program is something like VMWare.The program is absolutely free and it can be downloaded from Microsoft'ssite. You can find it by searching for its name with Google.It could even be a better option for us than VMware, and I heard that othersystems like Linux can be installed on it. Octavian __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind-- When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free." Linus Torvalds __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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