Hi, I didn't have to do any key remapping. I modified window-eyes so
that it would use control alt for html table navigation and that is
about it. Some one posted a nifty app to mod a key on your keybord to
act as an insirt. Forget that server 2003 tool kit this was something
blind friendly. I kept it but it's gone in the great mail disaster,
and I haven't followed up because I haven't really needed it. Some
one will surely help you out though.
Other than that the instalation is the easiest part. My only problem
was an issue with fusion not accepting my licence key, but this was
related to trying to install from a disc image on a cd which is a dum
thing to do in retrospect. Note: copy the dmg file from the cd to
hard drive next time.
Best,
Erik
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On 23-May-08, at 9:38 AM, Dave Wright wrote:
I like the idea of using fusion so far in order to help me with my
switch. By chance, are any of you aware of any tutorials, or
installation guides for installing windows under fusion? I imagine
at some point, you would have to do some key remapping on the
windows side to make things work properly for JAWS and windoweyes.
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David Wright
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----- Original Message ----- From: "erik burggraaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: Cost of BootCamp
Hi, you mean, how fast and how stable is windows running in a
fusion virtual machine I think, smiles. I have not done any
tweaking to mine at all such as forcing the computer to share half
it's ram to the vm which is a pretty good idea I just saw posted
here his morning.
I think I'd get marginally better results that way. I can't say
it's seemless, or that you'd never experience the ocasional slow
switch betweenapplication windows or the odd stutter in the
speech. I'm having a performance issue in my vm with window-eyes
and ms office 2003, but I'm having the exaact same symptims on my
turion 64 notebook running windows exclusively.
I haven't had performance breaks running kurzweil 1000 version 11
and it's digital voices. That's something right there. It's the
most high powered computer application I'm likely to use my vm for
and there's nothing to complain about here.
If you are going to do massive audio and video applications they
might work better in bootcamp, but for day-to-day computing, such
as switching to windows to use a voice chat program that isn't
supported under mac, you don't want to have to ditch the whole mac
os to do that, especially if your email, web browsing, music
library, ftp and torrent sites, and all the rest of your day to
day computing is over on the mac side. Essencialy, that would mean
you did nothing else while you were logged on to voice chat on the
windows side. That's not good logic to me, and for minimal stuff
like that, you won't notice any break in performance, even without
tweaking fusion.
Best,
Erik
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On 23-May-08, at 6:41 AM, Dave Wright wrote:
Just out of curiosity, how responsive is fusion? I like the idea
of running windows on a virtual machine, but I am slightly
worried about it being sluggish especially with JAWS or Windoweyes.
Best Regards,
David Wright
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----- Original Message ----- From: "erik burggraaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac
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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Cost of BootCamp
I did need sighted assistance. Or at least I used sighted
assistance, although I have a theory that you could do the
bootcamp install with an answer file. Then you would only need
some one to click you through your driver instalations.
I like fusion personally. After trying both rather extensively I
found advantages and disadvantages to both. The reason I
ultimately went for fusion was first a desire to run mac os for
most of my day-to- day computing and not to have to reboot to do
some chore in windows,
Second, better file sharing between mac os and windows,
and third, a nice keybord driver in fusion that let me keep my
number pad on the right side of the keybord so I could use
window- eyes.
Fusion costs $75. If you are on a tight bugget that might be a
factor.
Best,
erik
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On 22-May-08, at 8:40 PM, Ryan Mann wrote:
Before you start using Boot Camp, are you aware of Vmware
Fusion? Vmware Fusion allows you to run Windows in a virtual
machine and you can install it without sighted assistance. I
believe you need sighted assistance to install Windows under
Boot Camp.
On May 22, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Dave Wright wrote:
Hey there all,
I'm well on my way to switching to a mac and I think I've
managed to convince my girlfriend to do the same. As such, we
will be definite beginners. In order to switch from PC to
Mac, I'm still going to be running a copy of windows with
bootCamp. I'm wondering first how well this works? Second,
how much does bootCamp run for? Finally, how hard is it for a
blind person to set up a windows installation with bgootCamp?
Thanks all for your help.
Best Regards,
David Wright
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