Hey WAYNE!

Mar 18 09:28 07, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 WC> I think i may emulate you rather than reinvent the wheel.

I am willing to bet it will end up working that way no matter if you deviate.

 WC> What the heck is ssl?

secure socket layer.  Basically it offers encrypted connections.  Things
like online banking use it.

 WC> I have moved in that direction as well.
 WC> In response to my reading about ActiveX and other nusciences like
 WC> Flash which last I knew didn't work in the 10.2 release.

I have no idea.  I used ftp to stream mpeg4's and that works fantastic.  No
need for browser plugins for browsers I don't even have, let alone use.  As
far as the internet goes I hardly ever browse as there isn't anything of
any cosequence out there.  ftp and wget see far more airtime on the
internetted connection here.  Well over 90% of my downloads are source.

 WC> I've better thing to do than look at Flash political sites now.

I've never bothered.  I see enough political BS on the so-called news on TV
to last a couple lifetimes.

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

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

 WC> Html strippers to test.

Wellllllll ... sed can do that.  A real boar's nest that is since many
so-called html's really aren't or aren't really following the published
standards.  Depends on the site you're getting the originals from.  Same
with pdf's etc.

 WC> I wish to proceed before I need such.

Good idea.  Get the foundation laid first.

 MK>> Sounds familiar except Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz in this 
 MK>> case.

 WC> Braggard.
 WC> I'm green with jealousy.

:-)  I recommend it with a suitable motherboard, mostly chipsets. 
Currently using a LGA775 Intel board with a matched set of 533MHz 512M dual
channel ram (ddr2).  Overkill but the price was right.  Also the cpu is a
dual core em64t (64-bit) 800Mhz fsb jobber.  I disabled the onboard pci-e
graphic thingy (950g) and put on a 66MHz pci Matrox dual head g450.  That
more or less matches the 4x agp dual head matrox performance wise.

 WC> But not for long.
 WC> May marks the first month I have some financial resource.
 WC> Stand back then!

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

 WC> I'm more thna doubling my power then with the Pentium III 933
 WC> I previously mentioned I intend to purchase off of the disabled
 WC> fellow at the corner computer store.

Sounds great to me.  I think you'll be more then happy with it.

 WC> Or custom configure it myself.
 WC> Easier perhaps you send me a rough outline when the time comes
 WC> though. 

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

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

Amen.

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

More then enough.

 WC> I shall pick up some from the reduced price dented satellite bin ;-) 

I heard something about lawsuits pending over this issue.  Nothing to do
with NASA though.

 WC> A Charles Angelich sent me a CDR of Knoppix 3.3.

 WC> He like you was a very fine man.
 WC> He is unfortunately no longer with us.

I heard that.  Seems to be happening far too frequently in Fido these days.

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

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

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

The Plains Drifter?

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

 WC> Not as yet.
 WC> Forgot about that file.
 WC> I think i looked at it but I was having a bad day or something
 WC> and didn't do much or anything.

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

 WC> Now everything is just about perfect :-)

For now.  ;-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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