Zipspeak question and report

Zipspeak question and report

[Debee Norling]

Zipspeak is running just wonderfully on my Toshiba Libretto. I'm a newbie,
but I try to read everything I can find.

If you're looking for something PDA-like, let me suggest this machine; they
frequently sell now for as low as $350 on Ebay and have very popular support
on the net. Toshiba still has DOS/Windows drivers available and many Linux
enthusiasts use these mini-notebooks as well. Google for Libretto and you'll
find weeks of reading!

The Libretto is about the size of a videocassette and weighs a bit over a
pound.  Mine is a 75MHZ Pentium, but later models are faster. Even so, after
running Windows for a decade, I'm amazed how fast Linux is!

It is truly cool to have Linux in my purse. The numeric keypad is
integrated; you have to hold down the "FN" key while pressing character
keys. With a little practice, most of the SpeakUp commands can be accessed
by touch typing from the home row.

I haven't had this much fun with computers in years! There is still a lot I
have to figure out, like how to get my PCMCIA ethernet and my other PCMCIA
Wi-fi card working under Linux.  And much of the documentation assumes I'm
already a wizard ... but hobbies are supposed to be challenging!

Is the current version of ZipSpeak based on Slackware 8.1?  It appears so.
Is there a later version?  The maintainer's web page doesn't seem to work. I
know Matt Campbell was the first maintainer, but according to the readme,
the current maintainer is at the non-working URL:  www.saqibshaikh.com

The readme that came with Zipspeak said this distribution was especially for
beginners and stated that it would be easy to add additional packages from
the Slackware distribution, and that documentation was included. But now I'm
running ZipSpeak, I can't find documentation on how to add more packages. It
might be there and I'm not looking in the right place. I wouldn't worry
about this so much except that one of the packages that seems to be missing
is Info. All the docs on the net suggest that beginners read info pages. So
I think I need the documentation package to read the documentation!



       --   Debee
(Deborah Norling)
Alternate Media Specialist
DeAnza College
Phone: 408-864-5815
Work: norling deborah "AT" deanza.edu
Home: debee "At" jfcl.com

Re: Zipspeak question and report

[Gregory Nowak]

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Instead of using zipspeak, use zipslack 9.1, and replace the kernel
that comes with it with the speakup.s kernel instead.

You can find zipslack at http://www.slackware.com.

Greg


On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 03:21:06PM -0700, Debee Norling wrote:
> Zipspeak is running just wonderfully on my Toshiba Libretto. I'm a newbie,
> but I try to read everything I can find.
> 
> If you're looking for something PDA-like, let me suggest this machine; they
> frequently sell now for as low as $350 on Ebay and have very popular support
> on the net. Toshiba still has DOS/Windows drivers available and many Linux
> enthusiasts use these mini-notebooks as well. Google for Libretto and you'll
> find weeks of reading!
> 
> The Libretto is about the size of a videocassette and weighs a bit over a
> pound.  Mine is a 75MHZ Pentium, but later models are faster. Even so, after
> running Windows for a decade, I'm amazed how fast Linux is!
> 
> It is truly cool to have Linux in my purse. The numeric keypad is
> integrated; you have to hold down the "FN" key while pressing character
> keys. With a little practice, most of the SpeakUp commands can be accessed
> by touch typing from the home row.
> 
> I haven't had this much fun with computers in years! There is still a lot I
> have to figure out, like how to get my PCMCIA ethernet and my other PCMCIA
> Wi-fi card working under Linux.  And much of the documentation assumes I'm
> already a wizard ... but hobbies are supposed to be challenging!
> 
> Is the current version of ZipSpeak based on Slackware 8.1?  It appears so.
> Is there a later version?  The maintainer's web page doesn't seem to work. I
> know Matt Campbell was the first maintainer, but according to the readme,
> the current maintainer is at the non-working URL:  www.saqibshaikh.com
> 
> The readme that came with Zipspeak said this distribution was especially for
> beginners and stated that it would be easy to add additional packages from
> the Slackware distribution, and that documentation was included. But now I'm
> running ZipSpeak, I can't find documentation on how to add more packages. It
> might be there and I'm not looking in the right place. I wouldn't worry
> about this so much except that one of the packages that seems to be missing
> is Info. All the docs on the net suggest that beginners read info pages. So
> I think I need the documentation package to read the documentation!
> 
> 
> 
>        --   Debee
> (Deborah Norling)
> Alternate Media Specialist
> DeAnza College
> Phone: 408-864-5815
> Work: norling deborah "AT" deanza.edu
> Home: debee "At" jfcl.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
> !DSPAM:4089965742495033228900!
> 
> 

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Re: Zipspeak question and report

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209]

Hi,

     I knew you'd surface in the Linux community eventually. <grin>  
Lenora and I have been running Linux on our Toshibas for some time  now, 
although they're not Libretti.  We've used both Linksys EtherFast cards, 
which are standard 16bit, and Lenora is now using a cardbus Xircom.  If 
you need help, call or write.
          73.
-- 

Bill in Denver

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Debee Norling wrote:

> Zipspeak is running just wonderfully on my Toshiba Libretto. I'm a newbie,
> but I try to read everything I can find.
> 
> If you're looking for something PDA-like, let me suggest this machine; they
> frequently sell now for as low as $350 on Ebay and have very popular support
> on the net. Toshiba still has DOS/Windows drivers available and many Linux
> enthusiasts use these mini-notebooks as well. Google for Libretto and you'll
> find weeks of reading!
> 
> The Libretto is about the size of a videocassette and weighs a bit over a
> pound.  Mine is a 75MHZ Pentium, but later models are faster. Even so, after
> running Windows for a decade, I'm amazed how fast Linux is!
> 
> It is truly cool to have Linux in my purse. The numeric keypad is
> integrated; you have to hold down the "FN" key while pressing character
> keys. With a little practice, most of the SpeakUp commands can be accessed
> by touch typing from the home row.
> 
> I haven't had this much fun with computers in years! There is still a lot I
> have to figure out, like how to get my PCMCIA ethernet and my other PCMCIA
> Wi-fi card working under Linux.  And much of the documentation assumes I'm
> already a wizard ... but hobbies are supposed to be challenging!
> 
> Is the current version of ZipSpeak based on Slackware 8.1?  It appears so.
> Is there a later version?  The maintainer's web page doesn't seem to work. I
> know Matt Campbell was the first maintainer, but according to the readme,
> the current maintainer is at the non-working URL:  www.saqibshaikh.com
> 
> The readme that came with Zipspeak said this distribution was especially for
> beginners and stated that it would be easy to add additional packages from
> the Slackware distribution, and that documentation was included. But now I'm
> running ZipSpeak, I can't find documentation on how to add more packages. It
> might be there and I'm not looking in the right place. I wouldn't worry
> about this so much except that one of the packages that seems to be missing
> is Info. All the docs on the net suggest that beginners read info pages. So
> I think I need the documentation package to read the documentation!
> 
> 
> 
>        --   Debee
> (Deborah Norling)
> Alternate Media Specialist
> DeAnza College
> Phone: 408-864-5815
> Work: norling deborah "AT" deanza.edu
> Home: debee "At" jfcl.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Zipspeak question and report

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Hey there!

Good to see you here. Glad to have the Toshiba report. I have
been a Linux user for a bunch of years now, and you will love it
too.

Regards,
Chuck

PS: VidVoice was an ambitious and challenging project, one which
I admired.

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My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
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Re: Zipspeak question and report

[Janina Sajka]

Hey, Debee:

So great to see you on the Speakup list. Welcome.

I remember so well how you pushed me to sign up for Netcom back in the 1980's. I wouldn't do it because it was a toll call. You were right!


Debee Norling writes:
> Zipspeak is running just wonderfully on my Toshiba Libretto. I'm a newbie,
> but I try to read everything I can find.
> 
> If you're looking for something PDA-like, let me suggest this machine; they
> frequently sell now for as low as $350 on Ebay and have very popular support
> on the net. Toshiba still has DOS/Windows drivers available and many Linux
> enthusiasts use these mini-notebooks as well. Google for Libretto and you'll
> find weeks of reading!
> 
> The Libretto is about the size of a videocassette and weighs a bit over a
> pound.  Mine is a 75MHZ Pentium, but later models are faster. Even so, after
> running Windows for a decade, I'm amazed how fast Linux is!
> 
> It is truly cool to have Linux in my purse. The numeric keypad is
> integrated; you have to hold down the "FN" key while pressing character
> keys. With a little practice, most of the SpeakUp commands can be accessed
> by touch typing from the home row.
> 
> I haven't had this much fun with computers in years! There is still a lot I
> have to figure out, like how to get my PCMCIA ethernet and my other PCMCIA
> Wi-fi card working under Linux.  And much of the documentation assumes I'm
> already a wizard ... but hobbies are supposed to be challenging!
> 
> Is the current version of ZipSpeak based on Slackware 8.1?  It appears so.
> Is there a later version?  The maintainer's web page doesn't seem to work. I
> know Matt Campbell was the first maintainer, but according to the readme,
> the current maintainer is at the non-working URL:  www.saqibshaikh.com
> 
> The readme that came with Zipspeak said this distribution was especially for
> beginners and stated that it would be easy to add additional packages from
> the Slackware distribution, and that documentation was included. But now I'm
> running ZipSpeak, I can't find documentation on how to add more packages. It
> might be there and I'm not looking in the right place. I wouldn't worry
> about this so much except that one of the packages that seems to be missing
> is Info. All the docs on the net suggest that beginners read info pages. So
> I think I need the documentation package to read the documentation!
> 
> 
> 
>        --   Debee
> (Deborah Norling)
> Alternate Media Specialist
> DeAnza College
> Phone: 408-864-5815
> Work: norling deborah "AT" deanza.edu
> Home: debee "At" jfcl.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Freedom box web site?

[Charles Crawford]

	So I went to www.freedombox.com and got cookie and then some 
garbage about the domain for sale and could not gbet past that to any 
freedom box web site.  Anyone have an url?



-- 
-- Charlie Crawford

Re: Freedom box web site?

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Apr 26 2004  6:35 AM, Charles Crawford wrote:
> 	So I went to www.freedombox.com and got cookie and then some 
> garbage about the domain for sale and could not gbet past that to any 
> freedom box web site.  Anyone have an url?

http://www.freedombox.info

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org
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Re: Freedom box web site?

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi. Try

http://www.freedombox.info

          Kenny

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:35:09AM -0400, Charles Crawford wrote:
> 	So I went to www.freedombox.com and got cookie and then some 
> garbage about the domain for sale and could not gbet past that to any 
> freedom box web site.  Anyone have an url?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -- Charlie Crawford
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Freedom box web site?

[Richard Wells]

http://www.freedombox.info

Freedom box web site?

[Ann Parsons]

Hi all,

Yeh,

http://www.freedombox.info

Ann P.

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Not all those who wander are lost."  JRRT