Ok.
Downloaded it and tried it out, and it seems to work Ok, except that again,
after I hear Orca saying I must enter a username and password, nothing seems
to happen, but will test it a bit more, etc.
Also did stop jaws once I told it to start, but should maybe stop it before
even trying to open it as well - will test it a bit more.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Marang" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Microsoft Virtual PC software
Hi Jacob,
Have you tried the virtual machine at the Vinux site? It is called,
"Vinux_Virtual_Edition_1.4.exe" and is configured for Vinux. Read the
accompanying text file for details. Go to the downloads page at:
http://vinux.org.uk/
Don Marang
PS I hear a new exciting distribution of Ubuntu, the Linux variant on
which Vinux is based has just come out! It is Ubuntu 2.0. I have heard
great things from several PC experts. I wonder if a Vinux 2.0 will be
available soon?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Kruger" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 7:07 AM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Microsoft Virtual PC software
Has anyone tested MS's own VMWare product?
It's called Microsoft Virtual PC FWIW.
It's free, and the configuration wizard etc. seem pretty usable, but will
have to either try find a valid VPC image that's already had an OS
installed, or maybe get a sighted person to try help me, for example,
install something like Vinux, or an older MS Os so I can see if I can,
for
example, try out their screenreader utilisation, but I think it should
work
since in my first test run, I could tell it the new VPC I was configuring
would think it had a sound blaster card etc.
Anyway, here's the details/download page:
http://www.microsoft.com:80/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=28C97D22-6EB8-4A09-A7F7-F6C7A1F000B5&displaylang=en
FWIW, once I start up my virtual pc machine, I do need to use the jaws
cursor to get to some of the activity menus, but not really a problem.
Ok, while typing this message, I realised I was being stoopid, so I
started
the VPC, and told it to mount the Vinux live CD image and then told it to
restart/reboot, and it did seem to be virtually booting up from the CD
image
since I heard the sound prompt to hit enter to make it start running in
live
mode, so will have to test it a bit more - LOL!
For those who don't know, Vinux is a modified/tweaked version of Ubuntu
linux that automatically makes things like the Orca screenreader start,
and has also, apparently, had it's whole user interface tweaked to suit
us better.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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