From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from 1tree.net(server50.aitcom.net[208.234.0.28]) (2257 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 10:53:31 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from rocky (c716099-a.rchdsn1.tx.home.com [24.7.105.70]) by 1tree.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA07459 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 10:53:32 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 09:55:39 -0500 (CDT) From: cpt.kirk@1tree.net X-Sender: cpt.kirk@rocky To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: another newbie In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: I remember seeing what the root password starts as, but can't help you with that one. But I would not so much worry about destroying data. Linux is actually less likely to let you wipe out the system or destroy data then is Winblows. The thing is that if you spend your time in a non-privledged account, you can't destroy any more then data local to that account. As for keeping Winblows, there are two things that I can think of for you to do so. The first is OCR software (if you have it). I have not found that in Linux yet. The other is if you have a need to use M$ Office or similar programs for interchangability reasons. For those using X, that is less an issue. But since your using speech, then I don't know of any method of reading the screen inside X. (Though shell scripts can let you use some X programs.) As for the formatting every year, you are another victim of M$ outsourcing program. Having been a contractor at a M$ facility I can assure you that M$ does not endorse its support personel passing on a regular format recomendation to its customers. The thing is that most of their support comes from people who work with no direct M$ contact. Further, the average tenure at said company is less then 6 months. And the first month is spent in a class that blows over the top of 80% of the people's heads. Such leads to people telling customer's that things such as a disk utility (scandisk) can actually solve program errors (other then those dealing with disk access). Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net ------------------ Your fly might be open (but don't check it just now).