Many thanks to everyone who contacted me, either directly or through the list.
I now have
plenty of places and ideas to check out to help get my stepfather online. At
the moment,
I'm leaning towards getting him a Mac (since it has a "real" operating system
under the
hood) and a suite of text/
Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my
advice
about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information
on hardware
and/or software for him. However, I vaguely remember someone on this list
saying they
were visually impaired. If I'm r
I recently upgraded from 6.2-RELEASE-p9 to FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2 and
now I can't download pictures from my Olympus camera anymore. I used
to be able to mount it as a USB device and just copy the files across.
Now I get the following error message
artemisia# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /usb
mou
angup
tun0: Debug: deflink: Close
tun0: Phase: deflink: Connect time: 5 secs: 0 octets in, 0 octets out
tun0: Phase: deflink: 0 packets in, 0 packets out
tun0: Phase: total 0 bytes/sec, peak 0 bytes/sec on Sat Jan 14
14:22:33 2006
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Dr Barbara La Sc