I have a sneaky suspicion it's a writing-style thing. I'll make 'em
shorter next time.
On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 12:51:53 +, you wrote:
>On Thursday 07 January 2016 12:36:25 Steve Matzura wrote:
>> Lisi,
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:04:33 +, you wrote:
>> >I don't know how difficult it would be
Richard:
On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 05:53:15 -0600, you wrote:
>On 1/4/2016 5:07 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 09:32:36AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>
>>> A side question to Steve, "Is this post screen reader friendly?"
>>
>> That reminds me of the lecturers who say 'Hands up
On 1/4/2016 8:10 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 04 January 2016 11:53:15 Richard Owlett wrote:
On 1/4/2016 5:07 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 09:32:36AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
A side question to Steve, "Is this post screen reader friendly?"
That reminds me of the
On Monday 04 January 2016 11:53:15 Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 1/4/2016 5:07 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 09:32:36AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >> A side question to Steve, "Is this post screen reader friendly?"
> >
> > That reminds me of the lecturers who say 'Hands up
On 1/4/2016 5:07 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 09:32:36AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
A side question to Steve, "Is this post screen reader friendly?"
That reminds me of the lecturers who say 'Hands up if you can't hear me
at the back.'
I thought it was a logical ques
On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 00:07:21 +1300
Chris Bannister wrote:
> > A side question to Steve, "Is this post screen reader friendly?"
> That reminds me of the lecturers who say 'Hands up if you can't hear me
> at the back.'
"Smith ! I did not see you at the camouflage class !"
"Sir ! Thank you, Sir !
On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 09:32:36AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> A side question to Steve, "Is this post screen reader friendly?"
That reminds me of the lecturers who say 'Hands up if you can't hear me
at the back.'
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
wh
On 1/2/2016 5:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
[snip]
My blind friend with his screen reader seems to have much less trouble with
messy HTML than I (partially sighted) do. His screen reader just reads it to
him. I stare at the mess of "pretty" colours and fancy writing, with
blotches and swirls everyw
On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 23:06:29 +, Lisi wrote:
>My blind friend with his screen reader seems to have much less trouble with
>messy HTML than I (partially sighted) do. His screen reader just reads it to
>him. I stare at the mess of "pretty" colours and fancy writing, with
>blotches and swirls
On Saturday 02 January 2016 17:22:11 Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 03:45:40PM +, Brian wrote:
> > On Sat 02 Jan 2016 at 03:54:38 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > (BTW, top-posting makes it difficult to reply, and I couldn't be
> > > bothered copying and pasting to correct
On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 06:22:11 +1300, Chris Bannister
wrote:
>> You would do well to read *all* of Steve Matzura's posts before
>> bemoaning your lot. You'll come across "speech synthesis" and
>> "screen reader".
>
>In that case, mails in html must be almost impossible to comprehend. :)
>I'm guessin
On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 03:45:40PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 02 Jan 2016 at 03:54:38 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > (BTW, top-posting makes it difficult to reply, and I couldn't be bothered
> > copying and pasting to correct it.)
>
> You would do well to read *all* of Steve Matzura's post
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On 01/01/16 05:10, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>> Glad that you got it going. That default of sound being set to
>>> 0 or muted by default is annoying even if one has some sight.
>>> It must be maddening and incomprehensible if you haven't! The
>>> ratio
On Friday 01 January 2016 14:54:38 Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 02:34:55PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
> (BTW, top-posting makes it difficult to reply, and I couldn't be bothered
> copying and pasting to correct it.)
And harder still to follow. But I gather from elsewhere t
On Sat 02 Jan 2016 at 03:54:38 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> (BTW, top-posting makes it difficult to reply, and I couldn't be bothered
> copying and pasting to correct it.)
You would do well to read *all* of Steve Matzura's posts before
bemoaning your lot. You'll come across "speech synthesis"
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 02:34:55PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
> True, but who knew that? I go with what I know most of the time, and
> what I know about Jigdo can be summed up in one word: nothing. So when
> I see a URL that purports to be the one to use, I use it. This is what
> makes me crazy ab
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:57:38 +, Lisi wrote:
>Some years ago a friend complained to me that I ignored his advice and never
>listened. I said, not at all. I always listen avidly to advice. I always
>think about advice. I just don't always follow advice. ;-)
LOL. I always find something in
On Thursday 31 December 2015 15:45:23 Steve Matzura wrote:
> Now everything's fixed, up, running, etc., it's quite time to thank
> everyone who made suggestions, at least 99% of which were helpful in
> some way, if not directly, then indirectly by putting my mind onto a
> different thinking path.
Now everything's fixed, up, running, etc., it's quite time to thank
everyone who made suggestions, at least 99% of which were helpful in
some way, if not directly, then indirectly by putting my mind onto a
different thinking path.
It doesn't help, but it *does* make sense. If that were documented in
the Jigdo quick-start, that would be helpful. I'll write in and see
about having it added as a cautionary note.
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:58:20 -0800, you wrote:
>
>> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>
>> I sti
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
> I still don't
> understand why adding 'debian/' worked for the Pittsburgh URL but not,
> say, for the Stevens Institute one. No matter, it's working now,
I can’t say why any particular mirror does what it does, but the general rule
is: mi
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:55:02 Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> > This is what
> > makes me crazy about anything Linux--secret knowledge that some
> > people just seem to have or know, that would never occur to anyone
> > else.
>
> Yeah, it’s a pro
Yes, and there's a lot of "do what it says, not what you might think
it wants you to do" operating in the Windows sphere. I still don't
understand why adding 'debian/' worked for the Pittsburgh URL but not,
say, for the Stevens Institute one. No matter, it's working now,
downloading and hopefully c
That's true to a certain extent, but in the thirty years I've been
working with Linux, back to SCO Xenix and System V Unix, I've found
there's more unpublished knowledge and tips and tricks therein than
ever I've found in twenty-five years of working with Windows. But what
gets me is when people sa
On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> This is what
> makes me crazy about anything Linux--secret knowledge that some people
> just seem to have or know, that would never occur to anyone else.
Yeah, it’s a problem; but fortunately there are mailing lists like this one,
and wikis
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:34:55 Steve Matzura wrote:
> True, but who knew that? I go with what I know most of the time, and
> what I know about Jigdo can be summed up in one word: nothing. So when
> I see a URL that purports to be the one to use, I use it. This is what
> makes me crazy about
True, but who knew that? I go with what I know most of the time, and
what I know about Jigdo can be summed up in one word: nothing. So when
I see a URL that purports to be the one to use, I use it. This is what
makes me crazy about anything Linux--secret knowledge that some people
just seem to have
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 13:22:03 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
I'm not exactly sure what is happening with your Adventures with Jigdo
in Windows tale. But if you do not want the bother of thinking about the
best mirror to use you could have
http://httpredir.debian.org/
Highly recommended.
> ??
How's that? The URL shown in the results of a search for
"Pittsburgh" is:
http://debian.mirrors.pair.com/
How did you know to add "debian/" to the end of it? Do I do that for
any of those URL's? If that's true, I'd prefer to use a different
mirror, slightly closer, listed as:
ftp://ftp.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:36:33AM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
> This is what I could get from the wget portion of the Jigdo process
> running on a Windows 7 SP1 machine. I used a pair of files called
> debian-8.2.0-amd64-BD-1 (.jigdo and .template) downloaded yesterday,
> and the mirror at debian.
This is what I could get from the wget portion of the Jigdo process
running on a Windows 7 SP1 machine. I used a pair of files called
debian-8.2.0-amd64-BD-1 (.jigdo and .template) downloaded yesterday,
and the mirror at debian.mirrors.pair.com, but that doesn't matter
much, as I get the same thing
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