I've never used Cygwin and I haven't used Windows since the XP days,
but I've gotten the impression that screwing things up with every
update is pretty much standard operating practice for Microsoft.
Still, congrats on finding a fix, though I'll admit I couldn't imagine
being productive on a machin
I too would like to know how to change the default prompt, but just in
case you weren't aware, typing PS1=$ will do what you want, though it
will only last for the current terminal session.
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Sincerely,
Jeffery Wright
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
Former Secretary, Studen
Okay, I didn't have a .bashrc, so I created one and put the line
export PS1='\$'
in it. Even after a reboot, I'm still greeted by the familiar
username@hostname:workingDirectory$ prompt, so evidently, there's more
to a minimal .bashrc to change the default prompt.
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Sincerely,
Jeffery Wright
Okay, created a single line .bash_profile with the source ~/.bashrc
line and it works. Then, since both files are, for me at least, single
liners, I tried .bash_profile with just the export PS1='\$' and no
.bashrc and got the same result. For such minimalist configs, is there
any reason to prefer a
English is the only language I'm fluent in, and among the languages I
know more than a few words of, many of those words have been imported
into English anyways, but I still come across enough non-Latin text
for short comings in internationalization to be annoying.
In graphical mode on my desktop,
How do I check what synthesizers are available on my system, which one
Orca is using, and how would I change which is being used?
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Sincerely,
Jeffery Wright
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.
Personally, I've never seen the point of e-mail clients and have
always used a web browser to check my e-mail. Granted, not all e-mail
web interfaces/web browser combinations work as well with Orca as
Gmail's HTML view in Firefox does.
Then again, I've never had any luck using Orca with a full Des
One reason I'm stuck using Knoppix instead of Vanilla Debian is that I
find espeakup's screen review functionality far less intuitive
compared to SBL, the text-mode screen reader included in Knoppix's
Adriane accessibility suite. Plus, when I'm scrolling through a text
document in nano or package l
I'm honestly surprised at the e-mail backlogs some list members
maintain. I personally find it annoying when an e-mail gives me reason
to hold on to it longer than the time it takes to read, and if
appropriate, reply, and even among messages that land in my inbox and
don't get marked as spam, there
Honestly, I've never understood the "sent from x" meme. Like anyone
really gives a damn whether you were on your smartphone, or home
computer, or a school computer when you typed a message.
Anyways, while on the subject of headers, anyway to make them viewable
in Gmail HTML? For that matter, anywa
You know, it's strange. People complain about how hard text input is
without a keyboard, yet people have collectively made choices that
encourage smartphone makers to forego keyboards and has lead to
tablets largely replacing laptops.
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Sincerely,
Jeffery Wright
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapte
The only smartphone I've ever owned was a Samsung Acclaim, which was
the rare Android phone with a slide out keyboard. When my vision got
too bad to use that, I switched to a hand-me-down flip phone, and the
only reason I'm not still using that old phone was that my carrier
recently started selling
Forked from the Spammer thread.
I've never owned an Apple product, and unless their business model
changes significantly, I never will, but pretty much every review of
any iPod, iPhone, or Ipad I've ever read paints a picture of needing a
hacked device if you want to do anything outside the rather
if
> email is a big part of your job. I save almost everything I send but
> only a fraction of what I receive. Even so, the archive for each year's
> email is sometimes many thousands of messages.
>
>
>
> On 11/12/2016 09:57 AM, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote:
>> I'
Back when I used an Android device, I don't remember much pressure to
use Google services, but that was back in the Android 2.3 days, so
it's entirely possible Google has gotten pushier since then.
Closest things to a Smartphone I have these days are a Raspberry
Pi(running Rasbian, giving me the f
I'll give up my keyboard and command-line when you young whipper
snappers pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
Joking aside, I'm actually a millennial myself and suspect I'm
actually one of the younger members on this list. Still, even when I
counted myself among the sighted, which wasn't even fiv
Stuttering speech is a known issue on the Raspberry Pi with stock ALSA
and espeakup. You can Google the Raspberry VI website and mailing list
for more information, but the owner of Raspberry VI has produced a
fork of espeakup called piespeakup that bypasses the issues with the
ALSA drivers by rende
My bad, you need to be in /src under libilctts when you run the make
commands. Sorry for that over sight. Been a couple of months since I
last imaged my Pi from the stock image instead of a backup image that
already had console speech, so I forgot some of the finer details.
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Sincerely,
Jeffery
You're quite welcome.
And while I'm not quite as old as you, I'm still amazed by how far
computing technology has come in my life time, though it seems one
still pays a premium if they don't know how to set things up
themselves. Still, the Pi does everything my laptop can do except run
firefox wit
I haven't used Vinux or Sonar, and what I've read of Ubuntu's main
line development has turned me off to anything that uses an Ubuntu
base, but probably my biggest want on the accessibility front would be
to see the Adriane accessibility suite ported upstream from Knoppix to
vanilla Debian and then
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Jeffery Wright
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.
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As someone who has never used Vinux and hasn't used Ubuntu since
around Lucid, the complaint about Vinux having fewer features might be
related to bundled software. As someone who's quite comfortable with
the command line and package management via Aptitude, I actually
prefer distros that install o
I'm pretty sure 25 lines by 80 columns is bog standard and I don't
know how to change it. Then again, I'm using an actual terminal rather
than a terminal emulator within a desktop environment, which probably
makes a difference.
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Sincerely,
Jeffery Wright
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi
I've never used BSD, but I find myself wondering if there's benefit in
such a round about method or if this is a case of "doing it because it
can be done". Are there any applications that would run on such a
virtual BSD while being accessible to screen readers on the host Linux
that either lack a L
A few thoughts:
changing www to m in an FF.net URL gives you the mobile version of the
page. For story chapters, this greatly reduces the cruft at the top of
the page and somewhat reduces the cruft at the bottom.
The format for story page URLs is
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/[storyID]/[Chapter#]/[s
A quick Google search tells me that {1..30} in the url will tell wget
to download everything in the range 1 to 30. So, the appropriate
command for mass downloading a story from FF.net might look something
like:
wget https://m.fanfiction.net/s/[storyID]/{1..[numberOfChapters]}/[storyTitle]
replaci
If I'm understanding Eric correctly, his goal isn't to use his Braille
display connected to a x86 BSD PC, but to turn the braille display
itself into a BSD UMPC. And since a Google search tells me the braille
display he mention's official firmware includes a text editor, Daisy
reader, and social me
The Sense U2 sounds like quite the capable device, though it's
firmware being Windows based(even if CE doesn't suck as hard as
desktop versions) does seem like a pretty big limiting factor(though
that might just be my pro Linux bias speaking). Been hoping Hims would
release a firmware upgrade that
Considering that the list archives can be viewed by anyone at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/blinux-list/
and be downloaded as gzipped plain text files that include the e-mail
address from which each message was sent, I think it's fair to say
there's next to nothing any list moderators could do to
I often convert various document formats to plain text because the
conversion is generally easier than trying to navigate a program that
can read the document in its original format. Problem is, even when
the document is in English or another language that uses the Roman
Alphabet, the converted .tx
As I understand it, RedHat is just providing the hosting and has
nothing to do with the actual operation of the list, and since most of
the list's functionality is completely automated, there might not even
be a flesh and blood person behind whatever e-mail serves as the list
owner.
Whether the sp
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