Re: netmanager problems with ubuntu 8.04

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj harvee org>]

Darren Albers wrote:

> In the short-term set the two deny's at the bottom to permit.   It
> will get DHCP working and maybe Dan or someone can help us figure out
> what the proper permissions are.

that was actually part of the original instructions but for some reason my 
calibrated eyeball diff failed.  Now I can access my open access point and I 
will try it tomorrow on a wep protected one.

Unfortunately, adding open VPN connections don't seem to work at all.  I can 
make do with a CLI invocation in the host OS in the meantime.  I may need to 
play some games to give the guest OSs access to the same open VPN connection but 
that's my problem.

How much commentary do people want on user interface issues?  I am disabled and 
as a result am highly sensitive to bad user interfaces.  the current user 
interface failed me miserably because 1) I had to type, and 2) my exceedingly 
clumsy typing caused the user interface to fail in ways that forced me to go 
back to the beginning multiple times.  This process cost me a good deal of 
physical pain.

you can't do much about 1 because NaturallySpeaking is barely usable under wine. 
 With any luck, that will change of the next year but right now, it's not so 
good if you need full function speech recognition under Linux[1].  But 2, that 
we can do something about.  We can minimize typing and the user interface flow 
can make failures a little less painful.


---eric

[1] no, don't mention Sphinx, don't mention Julius, don't mention HTK or any 
other speech recognition product whose primary goal is to give graduate students 
something to do and write a paper about.  They don't work, have large enough 
vocabularies, or sufficient language modeling not to mention user interfaces or 
integration to an authoring systems/applications.  Yes, I do get very cranky on 
this topic.  :-)