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From: Conor on 20 Mar 2010 15:02 On 20/03/2010 16:05, Chris Ridd wrote: > On 2010-03-20 16:01:50 +0000, Jim said: > >> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >> >>>> How does a modern Gnome or KDE desktop cope with that? Honest question, >>>> I genuinely don't know the answer. >>>> >>> >>> Sun added a *lot* of accessibility code to GNOME, so that they could >>> ship it in a commercial operating system. >> >> That's good to know. > > There are blind OpenSolaris (uses GNOME) users, so there are probably > blind Linux users too. I don't know if they provide all the different > things that blind users might need, but they provide at least a bare > minimum. > Well it covers Braille, Screen Readers, Magnification and High Contrast Schemes so I reckon pretty much everything needed. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 20 Mar 2010 15:03 On 20/03/2010 16:15, Bernard Peek wrote: > One of the things to note is that the more experience you have with > Windows or Mac systems the harder you may find it to work with Linux. Actually that's partially wrong. The more experience you have with Mac OS X, the better you'll get on with Linux. Certainly my Linux experience made the switch to OS X virtually seamless. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 20 Mar 2010 15:05 On 20/03/2010 16:50, SteveH wrote: > <looks at home network and wonders how it could possibly work any better > if I fiddled with .conf files> > > I honestly believe you're going about this the wrong way. Really? Perhaps you'd care to tell me where I enable NTLMV2 authorisation in SAMBA, so I can access Vista/Win 7 shares as they support NTLMV2 by default, using the GUI tools in Mac OS X? -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 20 Mar 2010 15:07 On 20/03/2010 17:44, Tim Streater wrote: > Yes, Conor, what .conf changes have you made and why? > Enabled NTLMV2 authentication so I can access Win7 shares... > I've altered my sudoers file, httpd.conf, and newsyslog.conf. But then > I'm writing an app, and I needed it to be able to do an OPEN command, > use PHP with apache, and rotate the log files the app creates. What's > your excuse? > Just trying to get the overpriced FOSS BSD rip off to work on a network consisting of an OS that has gained several dozen times Mac OS X's market share in 1/10th of the time. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: SteveH on 20 Mar 2010 15:13
Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > On 20/03/2010 16:50, SteveH wrote: > > > <looks at home network and wonders how it could possibly work any better > > if I fiddled with .conf files> > > > > I honestly believe you're going about this the wrong way. > > Really? Perhaps you'd care to tell me where I enable NTLMV2 > authorisation in SAMBA, so I can access Vista/Win 7 shares as they > support NTLMV2 by default, using the GUI tools in Mac OS X? It appears that you're hacking the Mac to get around an MS problem, rather than doing it the proper way around.... or you're using an old version of OSX that doesn't include Samba 3.x. Can't say it's an issue I've ever encountered, though. But then I do have Bonjour installed on my Vista box. -- SteveH |