2 seconds!! That slow? I had to continually tap 'space bar' to get it to stop!! And that was on an old P3-800 machine! 73 Ed/ke7feg ....Now that November is here, April can wait! On 2/23/2007 the morse code requirement was dropped for getting a ham license. Now just pass the written exams which are on the web at arrl.org for questions and http://www.kb0mga.net/exams/ --- On Thu, 1/29/09, Dazed_75 wrote: > From: Dazed_75 > Subject: Re: KNOPPIX 6.0 Released > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Cc: knoppix@knopper.net > Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 12:44 PM > Neat setup to service a lot of visually impaired folks and > making it the > default makes sense for that audience. Looks like they > have a lot of work > to do to maximize that benefit but they are well on the > way. I am not > qualified to test that thoroughly, but here are a few of > the things I found > in playing with it. > > - The text to voice reader mostly only reads the line > the cursor is on. > Not a big deal except that in many places there is no > way to place the > cursor on some lines. > - The help says to use the ESCape key to back out of > things to the > previous menu but some places it does not work and one > has to use somethig > else with no indication of what. I suspect some of this > is unavoidable but > there needs to be some way to instruct the visually > impaired that it is > about to happen and what they need to do. Even if this > is a separate > instructional audio or universal hotkeyed audio help. > - In some places such as where you configure the voice > reader, the voice > reader does not distinguish whether the line it is > speaking is a comment or > real and effective config line. > - under the graphic programs entry of the text menu, > there is an item for > "Firefox webbrowser with graphical screen > reader". Potentially a very > useful item, it seems not to work. It seems to enter a > graphical black > screen with a cursor but after a long time with nothing > else happening and > trying various means to get out of it, I finally used > the power switch to > get out of it. > - There is only a 2 second delay before booting in the > default manner (to > the textual menu). Even if there were a single line > saying to type knoppix > on the boot line to get the graphical desktop, that is > not enough time to do > so. The impact is that people who did not read that on > a web site never > know they could. > > Again, I think this is a wonderful thing that will just get > better with > time. But I must say that when I first downloaded and > tried it, I wondered > in what way it was related at all to the great KNOPPIX > releases of the > past. First reaction was that it should not be KNOPPIX 6.0 > but something > like KNOPPIX-A 0.9. All because I did not notice the > KNOPPIX cheat on the > page I downloaded from. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss