From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tc2.main.nc.us ([72.236.102.2] helo=kmc2.main.nc.us) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HYC6W-0000wi-00 for ; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:17:08 -0400 Received: from localhost (tcdial192.main.nc.us [72.236.103.12]) by kmc2.main.nc.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C314D1E81B2 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 23:17:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 22:17:15 -0400 From: Doug Smith To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: couple linux(deb) questions Message-ID: <20070402021715.GA28260@grml> References: <000c01c773ba$128732b0$6401a8c0@blanchew2fs98i> <019701c7749b$2494c170$36c09792@mcgee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <019701c7749b$2494c170$36c09792@mcgee> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:17:08 -0000 Ok, time to sound off on this freeing up of disk space issue. Here's a true story. When I first got this machine, it only had a 1.28 gig drive on it. I had it most of the way full of these exotic programs I liked, but I had plenty of space to continue installing almost anything I wanted. Granted, now, this was with RH 6.2, and it would have never worked on that drive with what I'm using now, but I learned about those libraries the hard way. One day, I found a bunch of x-windows stuff and gnome stuff on there. Well, nuke, I thought, just let's dump all this graphical crap and free up a bunch more space. Well, I freed it up, then I turned this thing off. I think there was a storm coming, or, just because I turn my equipment off when I am not using it. What do you think happened when I turned it back on? Nuke was the word. I had totally busted my system. It would not boot, and I had no hardware speech, no speakup, no nothing to get me back up. I couldn't use the computer again for several days until a sighted friend could come out here and totally re-install the os. Now, go ahead and remove all those libraries, just don't say I didn't warn you, and that the other person didn't warn you. When you have to have a sighted friend come out there and re-install, or if you have to wait for several days to get or borrow a hardware synthesizer, see if it was worth it to find a few meg somewhere. Hope this helps. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST