-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 MK>  No need for browser plugins for browsers I don't even have, let alone
 MK> use.  As far as the internet goes I hardly ever browse as there isn't
 MK> anything of any cosequence out there.  ftp and wget see far more
 MK> airtime on the internetted connection here.  Well over 90% of my
 MK> downloads are source.

I've used wget extensively and it has never failed me or given a corrupt
file.


 WC> I want to find some utilities to assist the disabled.
 WC> Text to speech.

 MK> Right.  I was doing something like that a decade ago and found one
 MK> utility that looked to be a winner at the time.  Needed much work but
 MK> the basics were there.
 MK>  My problem was with proper sound capture at the time, basically
 MK> el-cheapo sound cards and microphones.

I figured there'd be such out there.
My confidence in Linux is supreme.

 WC> Html strippers to test.

 MK> Wellllllll ... sed can do that.  A real boar's nest that is since many
 MK> so-called html's really aren't or aren't really following the published
 MK> standards.  

OK, I shall look into that.

MK> Depends on the site you're getting the originals from.
 MK> Same with pdf's etc.

PDF?
Bleck.
Got something to transform that into html he inquires without 
much hope on that one?


 MK> Don't go hogwild.  Also I have some good stuff allocated for you
 MK> depending on the targetted board, such as the agp matrox g450.  I doubt
 MK> I'll need it and I'd like to see it get a good home where it will be
 MK> fully exploited.

Hog wild is no longer in my nature.
Was when pulling down some bucks as a printer pulling lots of overtime
though. 


 MK> For sure.  I'll post a build script you can edit there to suit your
 MK> evil demented purposes.

 WC> I am one who likes routine and reliable things.

 MK> Amen.

 WC> Is there enough room for us both on a single planet?

 MK> More then enough.


 WC> I never could get Windows to run right and behave.

 MK> You and everyone else.  I never bothered trying.  What for?

I dunno, I never was into this sort of thing until I got somewhat run over.

 WC> However I have always set my targets too high on purpose so that I
 WC> can fail and still be on a fairly high plain.

 MK> The Plains Drifter?

You've caught my act?

 MK>> Ah!  Have you tried a different /etc/lynx.cfg?

 MK> You might want to check the main lynx site and see what they have along
 MK> that line.  I haven't been there in ages but it seems to me they used
 MK> to have a whole mess of different lynx.cfg's available.

 WC> Now everything is just about perfect :-)

 MK> For now.  ;-)

If it breaks again I shall use my gentle ways to express my displeasure
until it is ieither fixed or I ain't around any more to complain about it.

I've got this sort of alpha male dog thing going on and my being crippled
doesn't seem to have much effect on my belief in my abilities to get
what I want or persuade people and things to see it my way.

I guess it is because I am so meek and mild? 
Yeah, that must be it.

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