[Oralux] Oralux not booting on other computer

2004-12-20 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator: Sonic Theater Discussion ( http:?/www.yahoogroups.com/group/xm163 ) ___ Oralux mailing

Re: [Oralux] Oralux not booting on other computer

2004-12-20 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
I don't have a USB key...that's a mini hard-drive thing, right? I do have a card reader; will that work? Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Oralux] The config files

2004-12-21 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hmm...I don't happen to have and can't afford a USB key (at the moment). Would the card reader work? Thanks, Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Oralux] The config files

2004-12-21 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
So you're saying to boot from the CD and *then* do the copy each time? And the card is actually a USB card reader, which uses flash memory cards. Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e

[Oralux] Media player with fast-forward?

2005-01-29 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
terminal keys? My advance bar on my Braille Lite is busted and I can't afford to have it repaired. Thanks, Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator

[Oralux] Media player with fast-forward?

2005-01-29 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello again! Is the proper package in the CVS directory, or am I going about it all wrong? I tried a couple of the releases, but they all seemed to need the GUI. Thanks, Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Oralux] Media player with fast-forward?

2005-01-29 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
But do I download it from the CVS directory or the Releases one? And which version should I use? Thanks, Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Oralux] Emacs Quiet Mode

2005-01-29 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
It's me again, with another question. Is there a way to make Emacs not speak *period*, so that even when I change buffers or have a message in the echo area? Thanks, Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Oralux] Media player with fast-forward?

2005-01-30 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
I got it working; thanks to you all for your assistance. The controls are even better than what I had with Winamp. Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Oralux] BRLTTY Question

2005-01-31 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
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[Oralux] Web Browser Options?

2005-02-02 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hi all, Does anyone know of a web browser that supports *both* Java *and* SSL? Links seems to have Java, and Elinks has SSL, but what I really need is to be able to do both. Is that at *all* possible? Thanks, Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger

Re: [Oralux] Web Browser Options?

2005-02-02 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
OK, then it must not have complete java support then; I was trying to get into Yahoo's chat system, but apparently that's not possible with any of the browsers that come with Oralux. Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo

Re: [Oralux] Web Browser Options?

2005-02-04 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Idem? Is that another browser, or some other package? Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator: Sonic Theater Discussion

[Oralux] Scanning

2005-02-06 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
-- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator: Sonic Theater Discussion ( http:?/www.yahoogroups.com/group/xm163 ) ___ Oralux

[Oralux] Emacs Customization

2005-02-09 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
permanently. Thanks, Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator: Sonic Theater Discussion ( http:?/www.yahoogroups.com/group/xm163

Re: [Oralux] Emacs Customization

2005-02-10 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Thanks, Gilles; changing that little option fixed the problem. Not only could I save my scanner options, but I could also get it to permanently use no punctuation and not use key-echo or word-echo. Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL

[Oralux] Googling using Emacspeak

2005-02-12 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Wow! I didn't know w3m had a direct patch to google! Thanks! Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator: Sonic Theater Discussion

[Oralux] Emacs Customization

2005-02-11 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
, feel free to ask. Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator: Sonic Theater Discussion ( http:?/www.yahoogroups.com/group/xm163

[Oralux] Other options for OCR

2005-02-13 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Is there any other OCR engine that's better than gocr? gocr seems to miss a lot of characters. Also, what does Daisy OpenBook do? Thanks, Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e

[Oralux] Sound Recording/editing and Dectalk

2005-03-10 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
as opposed to the one on the Oralux FAQ? Plus I need to figure out if that software works with a sound card or not. Thanks, Terrence -- Terrence van Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Oralux] Changing the shell prompt?

2005-04-05 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello, all, Is it possible to change the prompt under bash? On my accounts that I've created to handle some of my other e-mail addresses, the prompt is rather cumbersome. Thanks, Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org

[Oralux] Viewing/editing appointments in Emacspeak calendar

2005-04-06 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello again, Is there a way to actually *view* the appointments I've set up on the Emacspeak calendar? Thanks, Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux

Re: [Oralux] Changing the shell prompt?

2005-04-07 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Thanks, Doug. Since I have a user for each e-mail address I have, I plan to fix it so it just shows me *only* the user and a $ instead of all the other stuff. Though, I'm thinking I might have the current dir instead of the user. Terrence ___

Re: [Oralux] Mime decoding in VM

2005-04-21 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
It was already installed, having been put in when Oralux was set up. Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux

Re: [Oralux] Oralux went silent

2005-05-03 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hi, Gilles, Not yet; that's not going to mess up my files, is it? I really don't want to have to acquire all my files *again*. Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux

Re: [Oralux] Oralux went silent

2005-05-03 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hi, Doug, I don't have a sighted person around right off that can read for me; I'll have to see when I can get Jeannie or Bry here to do that. But here's what happened to start things going downhill. I was looking at some CDs so I could see what they were and identify them. Everything was

Re: [Oralux] A couple of questions

2005-05-06 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Gilles, Thanks for that idea; it seems to work well now that I got it through my thick skull that I have to start emacs in the same directory where my .emacs file resides. Actually, if I can just resolve my Braille lite issues and it weren't for the fact that I want to rescue my audio for

[Oralux] Emacspeak VM vs. Emacs VM

2005-05-11 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello, When I started using emacs instead of Emacspeak, my VM started showing the summary as well. Is there something I can do to set VM to behave the way it did under Emacspeak? Also, I have this Emacspeak console just sitting there being useless. Is there a way to quit

[Oralux] USB Keys/Thumb drives

2005-07-02 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Is a USB key the same thing as a thumb drive? Also, what do I need to make a thumb drive work under Oralux? I have some files on a thumb drive I got in CA, and I'd like to move them to my PC here in Petersburg. Thanks, Terrence -- Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL

[Oralux] OT: Braille Lite Voice

2005-07-18 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello again, all, Someone on this list, and I can't recall who, was curious some time back about what the Braille Lite sounded like. Now that my sound card works, there is a recording of the ol' thing at http://www.terrencev.net/blt.mp3 . Sorry for the group message, but I couldn't

[Oralux] Adding Virtual Windows?

2005-07-19 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello everyone, Does anyone know of a way to create extra virtual windows in text mode? Thanks, Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux

[Oralux] Problem sending messages in VM

2005-07-22 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hi, all, I just installed the latest emacspeak, and now, for some strange reason, VM won't let me send messages. I'm using the same .emacs and .vm files from before I updated. Should I be changing something? Message sending worked fine before, so this doesn't make sense. Thanks, Terrence

Re: [Oralux] not a reply,

2005-07-22 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hi, Nidhal, No, that's not a stupid question at all. I got my most recent emacspeak by doing the following commands as root: cd some directory where you want to download the file to wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/emacspeak/emacspeak-22.tar.bz2 tar -jxvf emacspeak-22.tar.bz2

[Oralux] Emacspeak Directions

2005-07-23 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Yes, Kalyan, you're right. The make commands should, in fact, be: make config make install Sorry about that, Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux

Re: [Oralux] .emacs file not being read

2005-07-23 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Oh, yeah! I remember the -q option, but can't remember how I disabled it last time. Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux

Re: [Oralux] .emacs file not being read

2005-07-23 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Oh, and I'm using whatever script Oralux uses to launch from the menu. Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux

Re: [Oralux] .emacs file not being read

2005-07-23 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Thanks. I downloaded it and will test it on my next reboot. Terrence -- fortune:/home/knoppix/docs/ascii/misc/fortunes/usenet not a fortune file or directory fortune:/home/knoppix/docs/ascii/misc/fortunes/usenet not a fortune file or directory No fortunes found

Re: [Oralux] .emacs file not being read

2005-07-23 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
OK... that wacko little signature experiment was *not* supposed to show up!! Sorry about that, all. Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux

[Oralux] CD-rom not reading

2005-07-24 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello, all, I can't seem to get my CD-rom drive to register. I can make it open and close, but for some reason it doesn't want to read or write. It worked fine a few days ago when I was using ABCDE, but after that it just quit. Is there any way to check if it's

[Oralux] CD-rom not reading

2005-07-25 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hi, Doug, I got the idea to clean the drive...and it worked. I guess my lens had just gotten dirty. Terrence -- Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator: Sonic Theater Discussion (

Re: [Oralux] Oralux Web Site Down?

2005-08-05 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Jeff, How is it you're able to use Mozilla IE? Are you doing that on Linux? I didn't think Linux had a version of IE. Terrence -- Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator: Sonic Theater Discussion (

[Oralux] drives

2005-08-16 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
So if you don't have a disc in the CDrom drive on boot-up, the CD-rom won't mount? I suspected this might be the case; I just haven't proven or disproven it yet. Terrence -- Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator: Sonic Theater

[Oralux] Trying to use local domain name in emacs-lisp file

2005-08-19 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello, all, I am using a program that needs to be able to connect to a certain port on my local machine. But when I put knoppix for the host name, emacs thinks it's supposed to be a lisp function. Is there a way around this? Thanks, Terrence

[Oralux] Calendar Appointments

2005-09-16 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Is there a way I can view my appointments that I've set, before their appointed time? They don't seem to show up in my diary buffer. Thanks, Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org

[Oralux] Automatically opening multiple folders when starting VM?

2005-09-18 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello all! Haven't heard much from the list of late. Anyway, I have a question on VM. Does anyone know if there's a way to set up PM to automatically open more than just the inbox when starting? I have several accounts, each with its own folder, and would like to be able to just have

[Oralux] Problem with apt

2005-09-23 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Thanks; that worked. While I'm on the apt subject, it seems it can't find some of the index files. I have *always* gotten the following error when doing apt-get update: E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. So

[Oralux] VM and gnome

2005-10-03 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hi Doug and all, I tried to do the .vm file *exactly* the way you told me, but that still didn't work. I did, however, manage to run Pine off my hard drive. Now I'm trying to get gnome to work when I boot up from the hard drive so I can set up Gnopernicus. I did manage to log in, and I

Re: [Oralux] Getting emacspeak to start in gnome

2005-10-04 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Where exactly would this file be stored, in the user directory or in /etc/? Should it be .xinitrc or just xinitrc? Thanks, Terrence Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator: Sonic Theater Discussion (

Re: [Oralux] x windows

2005-10-04 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hi, Mike, I don't know of any images that come pre-packaged that way. I'm trying to get gnome to work on mine, but as to one that comes with X and screen-reader capabilities built in at the outset, I'm not sure. Terrence Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Oralux] Getting emacspeak to start in gnome

2005-10-05 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
OK, that's where I put it, but for some reason I still only get log screen thing. Terrence Yahoo: terrencevak; AIM: terrence van e; MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator: Sonic Theater Discussion ( http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/xm163 )

[Oralux] Gnome Question continued

2005-10-05 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
To Kalyan especially, but for anyone who might have some idea, I put that .xinitrc script in the home directory of the user I'm able to log in with, but still only get that log viewer window and nothing else. Is there something I'm still doing wrong? Here is the file again:

[Oralux] Gnome Question continued

2005-10-06 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hi again, Kalyan, I did a grep command on files that *did* show some reference to startx. I've put the results below. == /mnt/hdc1/etc/mindi/deplist.txt:#startx

[Oralux] Digital Cameras and card readers with Oralux

2006-01-06 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hello, all, Does anyone know if there's a console-based program that will put the pictures from a digital camera onto the computer? Also, what do I need to do to make my oralux read the contents of a flash card in a card reader? Thanks, Terrence

Re: [Oralux] Error using Vm with 0.7.6, and oralux-installer

2006-05-05 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hey there doug! Well, I finally realized I was looking for the wrong name for the installer, and was able to make it work. Once I got it working, I was able to take my old .emacs file and use that, so now the sending works again. I would, however, like to be able to use another server

[Oralux] sending mail through google's smtp server

2006-05-06 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hey there, Kalyan, I hadn't followed the list for a while due to having way too many things on my plate, but looking back over the messages, this one caught my attention. My question is this: Did you delete the (load-library smtpmail) line, or did you leave it

RE: [Oralux] Is Bittorrent usually slow?

2006-05-08 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
I can seed Oralux once I figure out how to do that, and once I get it downloaded, so maybe it won't be quite as slow for someone else getting it. Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org

[Oralux] install

2006-05-08 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Hi, Mike, If you're using 0.7, go into a shell as root and type knoppix-installer. When you've done that, you want to be sure to select the knoppix-like install. See Doug and Hank's recent messages for a discussion on this. HTH, Terrence ___

[Oralux] install

2006-05-08 Thread Terrence van Ettinger
Not a problem; you're not being rude at all. HTH is shorthand for Hope this helps. I've seen it so often I sometimes take it for granted. Terrence ___ Oralux mailing list Oralux@lists.freearchive.org