Actiontech router?

[Janina Sajka]

On the contrary, Gnopernicus will simply prove how excellent CLI tools
already are.

Darrell Shandrow writes:
> From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i at azboss.net>
> 
> Hi Steve and all,
> 
> Linux won't be a good modern desktop for most blind users until Gnopernicus
> gets further along and the graphical desktops and most applications are
> accessible.  I'm not saying anything about liking the current state of
> affairs; I'm just being realistic.
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 5:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Actiontech router?
> 
> 
> > That's an interesting option if the serial port is available.  I do
> > happen to have a windows partition already set up here so I can get
> > into windows-only interfaces "if I have to," but if the originator of
> > this thread does not have windows available to him already, he is
> > stuck with the issues that Janina pointed out here previously.  When
> > it comes to routers, I much prefer to roll my own on a linux box.  I
> > realize many routers come pretty cheap these days but an old '486 does
> > the job pretty well.
> >
> > In the mean time, people shouldn't be *FORCED* to use windows to get a
> > job done.  It just ain't right!  Like what was said earlier if
> > somebody wants to do winblows, let 'm have at it.  But for me, I'll
> > only use it when it is impossible to do otherwise.
> >
> > A lot of these problems lately have to do with javascript.  Text
> > browsers are well behind the times and lack javascript support.  I'll
> > bet that if a good text browser would implement javascript support, a
> > lot of these issues would go away.  Yes, I feel much javascript is
> > unnecessary but I can see where some of it is quite useful for
> > specialized navigation needs like treeviews.  I have a web based tool
> > for managing postgres databases.  Started out looking pretty good in
> > lynx but I ran into some java stuff that threw it down on its face.
> > Worked good in internet exploder but...  I'm thinking of ripping out
> > the javascript stuff but they implement things like tree views and the
> > like and conventional HTML does not support tree views.  So one
> > example of where javascript is here to stay.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:27:27PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Unfortunately this brings us on to the topic of VI web navigation with
> > > Linux, not one of the strong points.  When you presented a sighted
> > > person using Linux with this problem, in most cases they would load up
> > > their desktop and launch Mozilla.  If there is no telnet interface
> > > available on the router, (i.e, some cheaper routers), then the only
> > > way to configure it is through a Javascript browser, be that on your
> > > own machine or through a friend who has Windows.  Note also if the
> > > router does not have a telnet interface, it may have a console
> > > interface that will hook up to the com port on the computer.
> > >
> > > Andrew.
> > > -- 
> > > Andrew Hodgson, Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
> > > Email: Andrew at hodgsonfamily.org
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175