so I take it there is no way to run zip speak from an nt based machine? I'll try the 98 se boot floppy that I have for my old system, but guess if that don't work then I'll have to get either slackware or another distribution. what is the easiest linux for a beginner to use. or is anyone better / more configurable than another for someoen using speakup? also do all the distributions have speakup compliled into the kernal or is that something that the user has to do them selves? thanks blinkyAt 07:23 AM 7/30/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >Hello. >I think if you really wanted to use your zipspeak you could take any 9x >system or visit >http://www.bootdisks.com >and grab the 98 SE boot disk >and change to the drive and then run the >loadlin command you can boot zipspeak. >When my laptop had to have the hard disk repaired and I did not have any >other computers I used a slimmed down version of zipslack added with >speakup support, and fit it on a zip disk and used my external iomega zip >drive.. and I had ppp, aol im, emacs, lynx, mpg123, telnet ftp blabla... >If you are going to go slackware I would select a ap d e n >I would leave out y because it is just games >then I would uninstall a lot of packages that are installed such as the cd >player, jpeg viewers etc.. it has been a long time since I ran slackware.. >removepkg package I believe, or pkgtool.tty I heard from a friend that >pkgtool.tty was removed but I have not run slackware in a long while. >I believe if you have the disk space debian or redhat is a little better, >but if you are low on disk space slackware is the easiest in my opinion to >customize.. due to the method that the packages are managed. >Forgive me if any of this is incorrect.. Its early.. >I am running 2.4.18 is there anything worth upgrading to in the 2.5.x >kernels? The virtual machine I run Linux in doesn't seem to work with my >sound card and I really have no need for it to.. So I know about alsa, but >is there any other reason? Is it faster, more stable? I want to do traffic >shaping on my dsl line, but I have no idea where to start. I want only to >filter the ability of users who are using my apache to suck up all my >upload bandwidth on the line. I do not want to limit my own outbound >traffic just the speed that apache will send it.. I found the throttling >modules for apache but they do not seem to do what I want them to do. What >about the ip_traf module? Will that do this. See I only have 256 kbps or >25.6 k up on my dsl and I only want to allow 10K to apache after that I >want apache to stop serving web pages. It is basically the only public >service I'm running, sure I have pop3 and all that open but only for my >personal access. Is what I want to do possible? >One more thing, I want to be able to get speak freely working behind my >netfilter nat, I have the commands for ipchains but what ports do I forward >to allow people to for example type in my ip address and have that >forwarded to say 10.0.0.4/24 or maybe a variable like IP$ that I can define >in a script for times when I'm at a specific machine and want to use speak >freely.. > >thanks for all the help >Patrick > > > > ------------------------- >Patrick Turnage >e-mail:pturnage at tampabay.rr.com >Telephone: (850) 459-7717 >HomePage: http://www.access-connect.com >Amateur radio callsign:kg4dqk >AOL Instant Messenger:kg4dqk >icq:26862191 >MSN:turnagep at hotmail.com >Yahoo!:kg4dqk >America Online:kg4dqk1129 kg4dqk1129 at aol.com > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.377 / Virus Database: 211 - Release Date: 7/15/2002 > -------------- next part -------------- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.377 / Virus Database: 211 - Release Date: 7/15/2002
