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From: "Parham" <parham16@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:36:35 +0330	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001401c7c193$1d9cff50$ccca6352@Parham> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183919406.3596.63.camel@layla.Mshome>

Also there is another thing. How can I know the programs I have and their 
commands to run? I tried to run Firefox and it said "cannot open display". 
In the GUI version they would all be in start>applications, but what about 
in text versions?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples@aim.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp


>I have used the free vmware server at www.vmware.com, I just mentioned
> that there may be others as some people prefer to use open source
> software (as you have greater rights with open source software).
>
> If you use vmware, I think most of it is quite self explanatrary,
> download the windows version (I assume you will want to run this under
> windows) install, load vmware, create a new hardware configuration (not
> quite sure from memory what vmware calls this), choose the configuration
> options you want from the screens that come up, modify and add extra
> hardware if you want it (things like USB ports, serial ports, audio,
> etc), make sure that configuration boots from CD , insert CD and then
> get vmware to start the virtual machine and continue as if you were
> running Linux directly on the computer (you may need to tell vmware to
> grab keyboard input, I think it is ctrl+shift+g). Sorry those aren't
> very specific, but I am doing this by memory, and I think the menu items
> are enough (let us know if you have trouble and hopefully someone will
> know the specific answer).
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:33 +0330, Parham wrote:
>> The thing is that which one of these emulators should I get? And how can 
>> I
>> install Linux on one?
>> Thanks.
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Parham
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Parham
     ` Lorenzo Taylor
       ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Parham
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Parham
             ` Albert E. Sten-Clanton
               ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Michael Whapples
           ` Parham
             ` Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp, part 1 Gregory Nowak
             ` Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp, part 2 Gregory Nowak
               ` Michael Whapples
                 ` Alex Snow
           ` Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp Michael Whapples
             ` Parham
               ` Michael Whapples
                 ` Parham
                   ` Gregory Nowak
                   ` Alex Snow
                 ` Parham [this message]
                   ` Michael Whapples
                   ` Gaijin
                     ` Gregory Nowak
                       ` Parham
                         ` Gregory Nowak
                           ` Michael Whapples
                         ` Gaijin
                       ` Gaijin
     ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Parham
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Parham
           ` Michael Whapples
             ` Parham
               ` Michael Prokop
   ` Michael Prokop

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