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 17sk0h-0003Kb-00 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:09:23 -0400 Received: (qmail 4119 invoked by uid 0); 21 Sep 2002 13:08:53 -0000 Received: from dhcp065-82-151-24.nt02-c3.cpe.charter-ne.com (HELO computer) (24.151.82.65) by mail.gmx.net (mp008-rz3) with SMTP; 21 Sep 2002 13:08:53 -0000 Message-ID: <008b01c2616f$c7381240$41529718@nt.charterne.com> From: "Alex Snow" To: References: <20020921023906.GA6009@dalek> Subject: Re: NFB Net goes linux! Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:07:02 -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: 2.0.11 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: They should just fdisk the drive and install a regular form of linux. Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows! ----- 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 >