Wow, you know its funny, many months ago I began running 96 lines instead of 48. At that time I had noticed I could only paste in 58 full lines of text. When I mentioned that to Bill Acker, he said something about crashes. Well, I hadn't experienced those until maybe 3weeks ago. I use cut-and-paste alot, most to go to long urls to rip audio. Well, this morning, still running Debian 2.6.32 I pasted in an url with quotes, completely frozen, had to hold down power button. We have tried multiple times going to a later kernel, but no speech from DecTalk U S B. I think I may be running Speakup 3.15? I tried running speakupconf --version but cannot find anything other than a 1line usage. By chance, please, are their any ways around these crashes, or a general Linux way of cut-and-paste? Thanks in advance Hart