the one thing I like about linux browsing is I don't get any popups, nor any activex crap that automatically installs software without my knowing. On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:15:26AM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. I've been free from Windows for 3 years. I was surprised how much > trouble a Windows user had just doing a google search. Maybe web access > is better in Windows, but it no longer seems that way to me. I don't > have to jump through all the hoops a Windows screen reader user needs to > do to get web access to a simple text sight. > > Kenny > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:28:51AM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > > I still prefer to brows the web in windows. I just don't like the > > linux web browsers. that will hopefully change when mozilla becomes > > accessible.On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:01:05AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Darragh writes: > > > > I think web browsing still has a long way to go before I would do it in > > > > linux all the time. > > > > > > > > > I know people say this, but my experience is quite the opposite. Of > > > course, there are pages that don't work accessibly in Linux, but many of > > > those pages also don't work in Windows. I say that because I've tried > > > them both ways. > > > > > > So, yes all that javascript may not be accessible with links, but a lot > > > of it doesn't work with IE either. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Darragh > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" <wacker at octothorp.org> > > > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 4:40 AM > > > > Subject: Re: Restoring grub > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Maybe you should consider it a good thing that WinXP messed up > > > > > once again and try to live without it. But if you must have it, do this. > > > > > First, at a shell prompt, type mkbootdisk <kernel_version>. I have the > > > > > latest Fedora Speakup kernel, so I'd say: > > > > > mkbootdisk 2.4.22-2f.nptlspk2 > > > > > Actually, you can change directory to /lib/modules. > > > > > If you have only one kernel installed, just type mkbootdisk <tab>, where > > > > > <tab> is the tab key and backspace over the /. Next, reinstall the ugly. > > > > > Using the bootdisk to > > > > > get back into Linux, do: > > > > > grub-install /dev/hda > > > > > This assumes that you're booting from the master disk on the first > > > > > controller. > > > > > HTH. > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Bill in Denver > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Darragh wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > I have to reinstall windows xp but the first thing it'll do is put its > > > > boot information into the master boot record. how can I > > > > > > > > > > > > 1 create a boot disk for Fedira > > > > > > > > > > > > 2 restore Grub so I get the boot up screen that I get now? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for any help > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Darragh > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Janina Sajka > > > Email: janina at rednote.net > > > Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > > > Director, Technology Research and Development > > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > http://www.afb.org > > > > > > Chair, Accessibility Work Group > > > Free Standards Group > > > http://accessibility.freestandards.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid > > back. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
