Hello. I would like to thank Kirk, Andy, and anyone else who has worked on Speakup over the last two years. I was able to get and install Speakup 1.00 and have finally compiled my own kernel successfully. So, I am now running kernel 2.4.12 and liking it. I really like the new cut and paste. Thanks for fixing the pitch problem with the DECTalk Express. If anyone out there really cares about Linux, you owe it to yourself to figure out how to compile your own kernel with the latest stable Speakup release. It is really not too bad and there is lots of help for configuring. My system now boots much faster. On another note, recently my Windows setup decided to weird out and tried to restore everything to the defaults. Needless to say, it would not boot right and kept locking up. (What is new?) Anyway, it is a little sad and unfortunate when you have to use a free, noncommercial OS to go around Microsoft and fix the mess they created. In other words, Linux saved my butt and I would not have been able to fix Windows otherwise. No, I am not ready to completely move everything to Linux yet, and there are just too many programs which have not been ported to console mode apps.
