Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-19 Thread Doug
On 08/19/2011 06:39 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 19/08/11 19:34, Lisi wrote: On Friday 19 August 2011 01:38:58 Scott Ferguson wrote: For me the biggest problem is CD labels - my writing makes the reading even harder. Now if someone created a simple system that announced the title of any cd plac

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-19 Thread Lisi
On Friday 19 August 2011 11:34:01 Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Vinux is virtually useless [snip]  In fact, I > > agree with you that it is unusable. > > I was over-dramatising - it has some uses:- > ;drink coaster > ;memory aid for recalling slavic words that end in hard consonants. > ;decongestant (i

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/08/11 19:34, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 19 August 2011 01:38:58 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> For me the biggest problem is CD labels - my writing makes the reading >> even harder. Now if someone created a simple system that announced the >> title of any cd placed in the drive based on information bu

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/08/11 19:33, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 19 August 2011 01:38:58 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> But most of the recommendations I get are from sighted people ie. >> Vinux is "supposed" to be good > > You will have noticed that I didn't mention it! I did, the significance escaped me. Now I know better

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-19 Thread Lisi
On Friday 19 August 2011 01:38:58 Scott Ferguson wrote: > For me the biggest problem is CD labels - my writing makes the reading > even harder. Now if someone created a simple system that announced the > title of any cd placed in the drive based on information burned to the > CD Can you read B

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-19 Thread Lisi
On Friday 19 August 2011 01:38:58 Scott Ferguson wrote: > But most of the recommendations I get are from > sighted people ie. Vinux is "supposed" to be good You will have noticed that I didn't mention it! (The Adriane version of Knoppix is, of course, good because Adriane Knopper helped to desi

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/08/11 14:29, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 08/18/2011 07:38:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> For me the biggest problem is CD labels - my writing makes the >> reading >> even harder. Now if someone created a simple system that announced >> the >> title of any cd placed in the drive based on in

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/18/2011 07:38:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > For me the biggest problem is CD labels - my writing makes the > reading > even harder. Now if someone created a simple system that announced > the > title of any cd placed in the drive based on information burned to > the > CD See http://

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/08/11 06:39, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 18 August 2011 03:55:30 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> As Martin isn't going to >> use a Live CD approach - it's a moot point. (though Knoppix Adriane will >> probably do the job, and includes parted) > > I understood (possibly erroneously) that Martin's prob