From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.84]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17saFf-000139-00 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:44:12 -0400 Received: from user108.net553.nj.sprint-hsd.net ([65.40.238.108] helo=6S4X011) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17saFj-0000BY-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 19:44:15 -0700 Message-ID: <000701c26118$c4a32210$6901a8c0@6S4X011> From: "Erik Heil" To: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020920085936.02589150@198.144.194.210> <000b01c260fc$f838eae0$41529718@nt.charterne.com> <15755.47440.881040.969386@akp@eznet.net> <20020921023906.GA6009@dalek> Subject: Re: NFB Net goes linux! Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:44:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: "Erik Heil" List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: As far as I know, those boxes run Solaris or Linux, and such interfaces can be changed, but you would need to know how to edit scripts or get under the hood. I personally don't have any experience with any of those boxes, so this is only what I'd assume in such situations. IMHO JavaScript is just a waste of time--usually it is used to perform some kind of client validation. i.e. Check if data is entered within some kind of field masks, etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buddy Brannan" To: Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:39 PM Subject: Re: NFB Net goes linux! > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:12:00PM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Naw, Alex, they can RTFM. > > It may be as simple as that, or maybe not. I know something about a > Cobalt box was mentioned. From what I understand, these are machines > made by a division of Sun (or something) as plug-and-play sort of web > server machines...which is to say...who knows how configurable they > are out of the box without some real know-how? I had an account on an > ISP who used one of these...and the Web control panel had some > gratuitous Javascript to handle account maintenance. The admins said > they couldn't change the interface as it came that way from the > factory pre-installed. I know nothing about these machines...but it > could be that all of the stuff is set up in such a way as to make > admin of the machine easy for those who don't know a lot about the > underlying OS...but hard to modify and get into the innards. > > On the other hand, it could be that Dave doesn't feel like reading the > manual after all. > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV/3 | "And if the ground yawned, > Phone: (814) 455-7333 | I'd step to the side and say, > Email: davros@ycardz.com | "Hey ground! I'm nobody's lunch!" > http://www.ycardz.com/ | --Eddie From Ohio > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >