From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.196]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1D9Sdc-0002wU-00 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:44:01 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so533066wra for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:43:29 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:to:references:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole:from; b=p+/XhK3u4bFZO/nJDttAlHM+4nG8JIqY+6k7FqQ9zS0cfrnDJMNBi9YwNfhvx4yjHiAu7liz+1ZpW2rM2FDwNG7Ma+03st2hf2Q1118zvjRaPss5nYbdVypctbW3kSBzE42DJ5Xrt/MF7nraI7kV4jZZZNL0efPa7OT3lzaposk= Received: by 10.54.29.35 with SMTP id c35mr839292wrc; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:43:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from farhan ([12.216.211.30]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id g2sm300382wra.2005.03.10.10.43.29; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:43:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <002201c525a1$052cc670$0302a8c0@farhan> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <000601c5257f$d35403a0$0302a8c0@farhan> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:43:12 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 From: Farhan Subject: Re: getting off my windows dependency X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:44:01 -0000 yes, i actaully tried lynx and it was sorta wierd, i'll try elinks and see what happens do i have to type elinks show-cursor or not ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:36 AM Subject: Re: getting off my windows dependency > Would be helpful if you described what you want help with. > > I will assume that you meant what e-mail clients and web browsers are > there. I will assume you have your hardware sorted, and can get a > connection to the internet. > I am currently writing this e-mail in cone. I like this because it allows > you to have multiple accounts specified, supports pop3, imap, smtp, local > mail and limited support for news accounts. I have found that cone does > not like my university imap server, so for that I use pine. There are many > more, and if you are using a distribution like Debian or Gentoo with many > packages and a package management system, search that for e-mail, or > similar. > > Web browsers, elinks is a good general purpose text based one, giving > cookies, java script, bookmarks, support for frames, and more. Most > pre-built packages of elinks do not seem to have java script, you may have > to build it from source (I found the patch included with elinks 0.11 did > not work on spidermonkey, so I had to compile spidermonkey with elinks > 0.10 first). Links2 comes with java script built in for most pre-built > packages, but links2 is more limited in features, elinks is a branch-off > from links2 and aims to give more features. Lynx is a very basic text > browser, but for simple things, I find best. There may be some for gnome, > but I don't know of these and their accessibility. Mike Farhan writes: > >> Hey i want to get off my windows dependency for reading email and using >> the net but i'm not sure how to do this. i need some help to get away >> from...microcrap. help? >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup