From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 173Dvw-0005Y9-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 06:35:33 -0400 Received: (qmail 27815 invoked by uid 0); 2 May 2002 10:35:02 -0000 Received: from dhcp037-50-151-24.nt01-c5.cpe.charter-ne.com (HELO computer) (24.151.50.37) by mail.gmx.net (mp010-rz3) with SMTP; 2 May 2002 10:35:02 -0000 Message-ID: <003501c1f1c4$f42f2920$25329718@ubr.charterne.com> From: "Alex Snow" To: References: <002b01c1f15f$e0e6e520$ab00a8c0@ec.rr.com> <001501c1f161$cc454ce0$25329718@ubr.charterne.com> <014901c1f163$958ebae0$ab00a8c0@ec.rr.com> <002601c1f16a$baab4b20$02213e18@mycomputer> <20020502004419.GE20520@lrxms.net> Subject: Re: I swear to tell the truth, Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 06:34:34 -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 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: "Alex Snow" List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I would agree. My winblows box crashed about once every 5 minutes when I was typeing an english paper a couple months ago. Kept having to restart and go through scandisk. Took for ever! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:44 PM Subject: Re: I swear to tell the truth, > What amazes the hell out of me is that if the sighted folk of the world > only gave some though to the matter, they'd probably agree that editing > a file is considerably faster then any gui. Not to mention keyboard > access can out run a mouse clicking any day...that's a proven fact. > > Oh how I love these discussions. Did I mention that do to windows the > adverage employee is producing less? Afterall all that crashing and > rebooting reduces output don't you think?? > > > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:48:43PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > > Hi Cecil and all. An example. I was using War Ftpd on my Winblows laptop. It uses Unix style permissions for file access. Only problem is that the gui makes it extremely difficult to set file permissions, and very hard to tell to what exactly you are setting those permissions to. In Linux, all you have to do is edit a config file, and that's it! A process that should take 1 or 2 minutes, took me about three hours because of the f-ing gui! > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Cecil H. Whitley > > To: > > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:57 PM > > Subject: Re: I swear to tell the truth, > > > > > > > Okay, okay just one more and I might shut up..... > > > Blind people need a GUI. Isn't that the real msg? Why doesn't he give them > > > the real story? Text mode os's are accessable to a degree that a GUI will > > > never be by their very nature. > > > > > > Cecil, stater of the obvious. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >