Well, glad to know that haven't been confusing myself for a bit of time, but, yes, only know of one person this side who had access to one in any sort of recent time frame..<smile>
Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 8:05 PM Subject: Re: accessible bios setup:thoughts?
I use an optacon routinely for bioses. On 4/18/11, Jacob Kruger <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I've still wanted to try something that was called something like an opticonbraille renderer on a bios screen since I know someone who reckoned they could read general stuff off the screen using it by running it over thescreen surface, and have the braille rendition felt on their other palm or something, but as far as I know they've been discontinued for quite a while.Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 6:35 PM Subject: Re: accessible bios setup:thoughts?Actually, though I cannot remember where I read it, my understanding is that they're beginning to manufacture desktops w/o bioses now. The bios code had a far longer life than what was ever expected, & my understanding is that they're working to phase it out. On 4/18/11, Sina Bahram <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Not exactly power saving, but rather power management. It's called IntelAMT. research the opcodes and software on the client-side behind AMT and Intel VPro technology. Good luck Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Perry Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 10:24 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: accessible bios setup:thoughts? Back in 1992 I had an Acer desktop that when you held the right keys in it sent the video to a lite talk speech box. It was crappy it couldn't reviewbut I could do everything in bios. Since then there was the Azus talking mother board that flopped because we shot ourselves in the foot. Ratherthan being happy with crappyy access we jumped them and told them everything they were doing wrong. Rather than fix it they dumped the board Now If you're looking for a possibility which is why you wrote I *GRIN*There is one thing that might be able to do the trick. Intel has a powersaving board that the bios is supposed to be controllable from the network. In fact my brother controls almost 2000 computers this way. You are supposed to be able to put them into power saving mode remotely and change all bios settings remotely. The problem I see is I am not sure the remotesoftware is accessible and have no way of finding out. I will give it ashot finding which mother boards has this technology but I figure you havemore time to hunt them down than me so I am giving you what little I knowoff the top of my head. The little is just that it's an Intel network management power saving feature. Good luck. Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield,Tyler Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 3:55 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: accessible bios setup:thoughts? Hello all: I will be getting a desktop in the near future and I want to be able towork my way through the bios and configure everything like I want (raid,etc). Have any of you found a way that can be used for someone across the net to work with you? I have a friend who said he would help, and I couldpoint the webcam at the screen, but that's really hard if not impossibleto read from the glow of the screen. Are there other solutions? I have a male - male VGA port setup. Could I possibly somehow set it upto stream the video from the computer to something that I could transmitacross the net? this sounds like a cool little project, I'm just notsure where to begin. I'd think Linux would be a lot easier to write thisfor. -- Thanks, Ty __________ 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-- Blame the computer--why not? It can't defend itself & occasionally might even be the culprit Jackie McBride Jaws Scripting training materials: www.screenreaderscripting.com homePage: www.abletec.serverheaven.net __________ 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-- Blame the computer--why not? It can't defend itself & occasionally might even be the culprit Jackie McBride Jaws Scripting training materials: www.screenreaderscripting.com homePage: www.abletec.serverheaven.net __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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