Protecting Windows
Clive Menzies
clive at clivemenzies.co.uk
Thu Feb 9 09:49:24 UTC 2006
On (09/02/06 14:32), Brian Astill wrote:
> Greetings, all.
> Can anyone help with this issue?
>
> Person with deteriorating vision has discovered Dragon
> Naturally Speaking which not only allows the construction of text
> from speech but can also speak from received text. ie letter writing
> and email conversing etc become possible for the visually impaired.
>
> All of which is wonderful except - you guessed it - the %$$#@*&
> program runs on Windows 2000/XP only. Why would anyone in their
> right mind NOT port a program as sensible as this to a SECURE OS?
>
> So .. what can be done? Would a good firewall (FBSD?), then distro of
> choice (Ubuntu) and run 2000 in a virtual machine from Linux, protect
> our visually impaired operator from inadvertently triggering a
> virus/trojan/worm embedded in an innocent email or text-based
> web-page or VB-embedded-script in a MSOffice document?
>
> What arrangement would you suggest to enclose Windows in a "safe"
> environment?
>
> Alternatively, anyone know of a "Dragon Naturally Speaking" port to
> *nix or an app that achieves the same effects in OOO and (say)
> Firefox?
Have you looked at gnopernicus; I looked at it briefly on behalf of
someone I know who is blind and locked into the Windows world. I couldn't
get very far with it but it has the potential to be a replacement.
Regards
Clive
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