On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:30:18PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The discussion on dell and linux was what prompted me to make that post. Ah. I was not quite as obvious to me, as it was not part of the same thread. I´d suggest to add an opening comment next time. > When I bought this Dell back in August of 1999 the only way Dell would > install linux was if you were a business. I got a bad combination of > win98se and office2000 that crashed the system regularly because > c:\windows\win386.swp kept getting corrupted. I found out much later > after I had gotten Linux talking Was that with the 'speakup' version of the 2.4 kernel? > that a single line in autoexec.bat would have solved that problem but > by then it had been way too many installs and I can assure you > installing windows 98se using instructions you wrote down on a piece > of braille paper and listening for the sound of the hard drive no > longer running to key in the next command is an adventure noone should > have to live through! While I have not done all that, I have had to put my ear next to a computer to make sure that the hard drive was not reading anything while investigating a problem with software installs. > Since I live alone when Windows crashed I had the "pleasure" of > reinstalling all of it. That's why windows nt/2000/xp all have > screen narrator on them. Well that one thing that microsoft did something good :-) > I've never tried installing windows with screen narrator so don't > know if it'll work. For those that are interested, at the desktop > hit windowskey-u and hit return. Something to try on my friends computer :-) > Your computer will start doing something you didn't know it could do > before provided your sound card is working and speakers have enough > volume. Oh by the way, screen reading is especially useful for those > people with a.d.h.d. multitaskers of the first order; you can listen > to one document on one computer while looking at another document on > a second computer, and here you thought that was just put there for > the blind and dyslectics! I actaully use festival all the time. I have a shell script that uses xclip and festival in an infinete loop. It reads the clipboard and then speakis it. I 'snark' a webpage into the clip board and then hear it. I also have a macro for mutt to pipe the email text to festival so that I can hear and read the text simultaneously. Any way, I asked because as a sighted person who uses mutt with threaded view, your post was not part of a thread and seemed out of place and I was curious about what you where trying to covey. I always appreciate reading your posts becuase of your unique perspecitve. Although I too have used my foot to push the power button on my computer :-) -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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