Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?

2018-02-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it? @10: I agree and disagree. Personally, if I'm...say out for a meal I usually* get the wait staff helping me out once they notice my cane and such, I've had cleaning staff help me out if i'm...say in a store and they

Re: poll. New virtual state

2018-02-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: poll. New virtual state @7::The Dutch, Spanish, French and others did the exact same thing (imperialism and conquests), for instance the Spanish conquests with the conquistadors, and the African tribes willingly sold their own people into slavery for decades before the European

Re: Suggestions for a New Laptop?

2018-02-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for a New Laptop? If you want a decent laptop...I'd say get one from a brand you trust. MyDell Vostro hasn't let me down, but I had nothing but trouble with an Acer (hard drive went) and a Toshiba (headphone jack died)I'd even suggest if you feel up to it, getting an older

Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?

2018-02-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it? Would I?Yes, and noOr: It depends entirely on whethera. The sight I'd get back is decentb) If it'd degrade over timeSoin short, mark me down as neutral URL:

Re: Bye bye, firefox

2018-02-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bye bye, firefox I was going to say Seamonkey, 2.49 works fine here.Also Mac? No, I don't think so.I don't know why everyone's saying FF isn't accessible, I'm posting from it right now, it't certainly is. Plus NVDA devs are working with Mozilla to figure out what to do. Also maybe it's

Re: Bye bye, firefox

2018-02-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bye bye, firefox at, 2.49 just works outta the box on Windows/Linux here and is a great little browser. nSeamonkey, it just works, and is a less system inensive version of FF.I never got any warnings about FF and at least on Linux/Solus here it just works out of the box for me with

Re: Linux assistance center

2018-02-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Linux assistance center Gnome 3? No, Just no, personallyI like the idea, but.it's unwieldy, it's confusing at.at least here on my laptop, it's not actually that Orca friendly. I'm talking about the latest Gnome 3.2X versionsLXDEis intriguing but...ya know, Orca

Re: Linux assistance center

2018-02-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Linux assistance center Ack, well there goes my hope for Mint's flgship DE to be useable...admittedly Mint Mate is okay but...it's Mate.I can't. I just can't go back to a distro without the Brisk menu. That's a godsend really, the Brisk menu, hit super/windows key, menu comes up

Re: Linux assistance center

2018-02-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Linux assistance center You referring to Ubuntu Budgie or Solus Budgie as I've got Orca to work with Budgie last year, however any sort of updates completely broke it, so there's that...but out of the box, at least for Solus it did actually work with Orca for a few months thenthe

Re: Linux assistance center

2018-02-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Linux assistance center One more:Any truth to the rumors of making Cinnamon Orca friendly? I've heard bits of rumors every so often. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=351845#p351845 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Linux assistance center

2018-02-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Linux assistance center Okay, questionFor Mate, I use Solus which has its own super key menu (and useful, too)Can I hide the alt F1 menu in Mate, but keep the tray with the clock, battery status etc? If so, what's the easiest way to do it? I never use the alt F1 menu any more, but

Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?

2018-01-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Okay one more song meaning, and this is one that amuses me, it's covered in the videos I posted up there...but Ironic by Alanis Morisette...contains no irony. Which is itself ironic. Well played then. I like stuff like that, but @Dark: Speaking of the

Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?

2018-01-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? The two links were to a pair of WatchMojo videos about song meanings everyone gets wrong.I wouldn't say Don McLean's American Pie is really a hidden meaning. Vincent, now that's a different story...the one that goes starry starry nightyeah that's a

Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?

2018-01-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Also this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6iK5zWQRgQThanks, WatchMojo. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349598#p349598 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?

2018-01-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Here's the video I was going to put in here earlier:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ziEsZSVJ1s URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349597#p349597 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?

2018-01-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Okay here we go1. Imagine by John Lennon is, essentially, the Communist manifesto2. Evry Breath you Takestalking song3. Ticket to Ride is about prostitutes in Hamburg4. Blackbird is about racial inequality in 60s USA5. Closing Time is about

Re: Converting a jcink forum to punbb

2018-01-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Converting a jcink forum to punbb Jcink is a forum hosting provider, and it uses a modified, HEAVILY modified IPB 1.3, because...I dunno why, but I want to take that SQL DB and move it off of Jcink and over to another hosting. Basically...ya, I want to keep the data and such, switch

Converting a jcink forum to punbb

2018-01-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Converting a jcink forum to punbb This is an odd question butsince this is a punBB forum, figured I'd askSo I got a jcink forum, I want to look into converting it to punbb as I find Pun easier to use, and I don't wanna lose any of the data. What's the easiest way to go about this

Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones?

2018-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones? 1. Yes it is possible, alt+f2 and type either orca or orca --replace and it works. I had it working on 17.10 but I haven't tried 7.10.1Orca is baked into the gnome acessibility stack, so it's in by default. Mate works fine with Ora,

Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones?

2018-01-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones? In order1.1. I've had that exact same issue on the Ubiquity (or Ubuntu) installer with no idea how to fix it, it seems to be an Orca and general Linux issue unless I'm missing something here2. It should, I think be in the key mapping

Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones?

2018-01-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones? Okay it should use your actual computer's internet for the VM.Try downloading a fresh image for the Solus Mate, I had to do that to get my USB stick to install on both my machines, so it may just be a bad download.For the curl error did

Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones?

2018-01-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones? It's in network/netowrk connections under the menu, at least it was there for me once I checked on my laptop earlier.Wifi seems pretty stable so far, no random disconnects here. Also glad you got it installed. Don't forget you can do snap

Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones?

2018-01-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones? Not sure on that one then, I didn't have any issues installing on actual hardware here, and I left the bootloader box to whatever it was on a fresh install, checked I believe by default.Okay that's odd about the installer as for me on my

Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones?

2018-01-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones? Alright...in no order1. For the timezone bit Restart the installer but this time check the find my location automatically box.2. It's mate-terminal in alt+F2, that caught me out too at first but I made a note of it, I just put a link

Re: Wine, audiogames and SAPI. How do I...?

2018-01-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Wine, audiogames and SAPI. How do I...? Okay how did you do it and did you install both the SDK and the Sapi files, IIRC you have to install more than just the speechsdk URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=347351#p347351

Re: Windows vs Linux

2018-01-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Windows vs Linux Tips:1. Keep your system up to date2. Don't be afraid to customize your system how you like it3.  Windows key gets you the same menu as in the Budgie onebut you probably already found that oneFor the Windows onethere's a command to get  GRUB to check what you

Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones?

2018-01-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones? @26: Solus (the OS) is an independent distro from the ground up,  that's amazingly good, comes in Gnome/Mate/Budgie flavorsand I'd say Gnome or Mate. Budgie's moving to QT so that sort of broke for me after an

Re: Windows vs Linux

2018-01-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Windows vs Linux Eh I dunno, If/when I get a new laptop I'll probably just get a cheap Dell I can throw a bigger HDD in or one of those portable machines.Also, I'm not the world's biggest fan of Ubuntu, simple because Solus is leaner, cleaner and doesn't have half the bloatware Ubuntu

Re: Windows vs Linux

2018-01-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Windows vs Linux For the RAM...8+ gigs of RAM for any VM if you got 16+ gigs IMOI'd say check companies who sell refurbished machines, I got my Vostro from  a tech firm in the UK that sells accessible tech (though why they sold me a top of the line gaming laptop for $450 is beyond

Re: Windows vs Linux

2018-01-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Windows vs Linux Ah the thing with the Broadcom drivers is this, they provide two different ones for LTS and current kernels, make sure you're installing the correct ones for your kernel typeAlsosince you're on Budgie do NOT update the system since it'll convert Budgie to QT which

Re: Windows vs Linux

2018-01-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Windows vs Linux Neither of those are, AFAIK, accessible.Start with the ones I mentioned in my last post. I know for a fact that the Mate (and by extension Gnome) desktops work flawlessly with Orca. KDE as far as I'm aware, isn't accessible  easily, but don't quote me on that, I don't

Re: Windows vs Linux

2018-01-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Windows vs Linux Okay you got a few ways to get into Linux1. Virtual machines. This is probably the easiest way, get VMWare or VirtualBox and a Linux ISO and set up the VM2. Actually making a bootable ISO and installing Linux on your physical systemFor the second one you'll need to

Re: Wine, audiogames and SAPI. How do I...?

2018-01-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Wine, audiogames and SAPI. How do I...? Nope, I just installed the speech SDK via winetricks and the dlls argument.Tried it on my 17.10 laptop and it did the same thing, I only installed the speechsdk file, it changed my whole session from a Mate to gnome (I'll assume fallback), so no

Re: Any Windows 10 Users Experiencing Severe Slow Downs After Update

2018-01-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Any Windows 10 Users Experiencing Severe Slow Downs After Update I did come across claims of 28-40% slowdown on som machines, so there you go...Quidsup mentioned it on his video that the slowdown may be significant for some machines.So there ya go. A 27-40% slowdownyeah, good job

Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones?

2018-01-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : JaceK via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Lightweight Orca linux distros...any good ones? Just gonna necro this to say I came back to this topic to point out a few things1. Solus Mate is much, MUCH improved after a sudo eopkg update and is much much more useable now2. Seamonkey/Waterfox are lightweight browsers3. Orca in Solus

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