NFB Net goes linux!

[Erik Heil]

As far as I know, those boxes run Solaris or Linux, and such interfaces can
be changed, but you would need to know how to edit scripts or get under the
hood.  I personally don't have any experience with any of those boxes, so
this is only what I'd assume in such situations.  IMHO JavaScript is just a
waste of time--usually it is used to perform some kind of client validation.
i.e. Check if data is entered within some kind of field masks, etc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Buddy Brannan" <davros at ycardz.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: NFB Net goes linux!


> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:12:00PM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Naw, Alex, they can RTFM.
>
> It may be as simple as that, or maybe not. I know something about a
> Cobalt box was mentioned. From what I understand, these are machines
> made by a division of Sun (or something) as plug-and-play sort of web
> server machines...which is to say...who knows how configurable they
> are out of the box without some real know-how? I had an account on an
> ISP who used one of these...and the Web control panel had some
> gratuitous Javascript to handle account maintenance. The admins said
> they couldn't change the interface as it came that way from the
> factory pre-installed. I know nothing about these machines...but it
> could be that all of the stuff is set up in such a way as to make
> admin of the machine easy for those who don't know a lot about the
> underlying OS...but hard to modify and get into the innards.
>
> On the other hand, it could be that Dave doesn't feel like reading the
> manual after all.
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