Well I must ask you to grab some coffee and think this over. You may also *gulp* want to try it out? Kevin email: kjsisco at rcn.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <showell@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 7:35 AM Subject: Re: *****SPAM***** My apology > Ok this is rediculous Kevin for the simple reason that if any of this > were possible and I"m still not there yet; there's nothing to be gain. > I mean that in the sense that the overhead for such transactions over a > netowrk would be prety large in my mind and I'm not a networking expert. > If I understand your saying you could use a Linux box running SPeakup > while sitting at a windows box and this alsa tool would allow you to use > SPeakup on the windows box instead of a windows-based screen reader. > If this understanding is correct, I submit to you this is useless. Why? > Well its simple. If folks need a gui they could always use Gnome and > Gnopernicus. If I correct in my understanding and folks still wanted to > use SPeakup in such a fashion over a network, I still believe the > overhead would be unreasonable. Besides all that, I think most folk > would rather use a Linux box instead of a windows box. THere's nothing > that can't be done on a Linux box that can be done on a windows box as > far as I can tell. Your efforts would be better spent elsewhere. I still > don't see this any of this being ore than a crock, but you sure made a > lot of folk mighty upset because you didn't give us the information > requested in the beginning. > Oh and by the way, you can access files from a Linux box with windows by > using Samba so your statements are just not making sense. I made up the > bit above based on some incredible assumptions. Thanks I made these > observations before my first cup of coffee, now I've taxed my few brain > cells and most go load them up with coffee. I must not be awake yet. > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:33:32PM -0400, kevin wrote: > > I used that as an ixample. Look at it this way. You work on redhat 9 in > > some office, and I work on a windows machine. I want to comunicate with > > your machine, but I want to use alsa to speek rather than that cursed jaws! > > I would utelize parts of your system, access linux files and work with them. > > Now, I could telnet, but I think you see the difference. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
