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[oats-sig] RE: oats-sig new opportunities

Tom Nabarro whizz2000 at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 27 12:41:03 BST 2007

Article: [oats-sig] RE: oats-sig new opportunities

Thank you Stephen , Steve & Simon for your replies and your useful links, I 
will check them out and try to learn Python as well as working on my C++/clr 
MFC project.
In response to Stephen: I have simply been using Dragon preferred recently 
on a nice new laptop with vista (I wanted a challenge).  Dragon has been 
very good (Dragon 9.5 preferred) for me and I have finally got used to it 
(there are some areas that don't work properly with vista).  I had trouble 
with Internet Explorer so migrated to Firefox and am also using the mouse 
less browsing extension which speeds things up.
In about a month or so when I get my neck collar off, I will also be using 
smartNav, an infrared tracking mouse pointer which is controlled using a 
reflective sticker on the forehead.  I have found the combination of these 
two AT's proves very productive.
I have an Intel S5000 sequence server with 2,3 GHz Woodcrest processors 
running Windows 2003 server as a host OS with Susie and Red Hat guest OSes, 
I access this by remote desktop from my laptop but I'm having trouble 
turning it on using magic packets, I think this is some bug in the bios 
(which I have to upgrade but there are complications), having worked for 
Intel I know how dodgy wake on LAN implementation can be.
I have another similar server running Suse nine with a remote management 
module, which I can access directly from the laptop.

Thanks, Tom

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