*****SPAM***** My apology

[kevin]

Well I must ask you to grab some coffee and think this over.  You may also
*gulp* want to try it out?
Kevin
email:
kjsisco at rcn.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Howell" <showell at lrxms.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: *****SPAM***** My apology


> Ok this is rediculous Kevin for the simple reason that if any of this
> were possible and I"m still not there yet; there's nothing to be gain.
> I mean that in the sense that the overhead for such transactions over a
> netowrk would be prety large in my mind and I'm not a networking expert.
> If I understand your saying you could use a Linux box running SPeakup
> while sitting at a windows box and this alsa tool would allow you to use
> SPeakup on the windows box instead of a windows-based screen reader.
> If this understanding is correct, I submit to you this is useless. Why?
> Well its simple. If folks need a gui they could always use Gnome and
> Gnopernicus. If I correct in my understanding and folks still wanted to
> use SPeakup in such a fashion over a network, I still believe the
> overhead would be unreasonable. Besides all that, I think most folk
> would rather use a Linux box instead of a windows box. THere's nothing
> that can't be done on a Linux box that can be done on a windows box as
> far as I can tell. Your efforts would be better spent elsewhere. I still
> don't see this any of this being ore than a crock, but you sure made a
> lot of folk mighty upset because you didn't give us the information
> requested in the beginning.
> Oh and by the way, you can access files from a Linux box with windows by
> using Samba so your statements are just not making sense. I made up the
> bit above based on some incredible assumptions. Thanks I made these
> observations before my first cup of coffee, now I've taxed my few brain
> cells and most go load them up with coffee. I must not be awake yet.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:33:32PM -0400, kevin wrote:
> > I used that as an ixample.  Look at it this way.  You work on redhat 9
in
> > some office, and I work on a windows machine.  I want to comunicate with
> > your machine, but I want to use alsa to speek rather than that cursed
jaws!
> > I would utelize parts of your system, access linux files and work with
them.
> > Now, I could telnet, but I think you see the difference.
>
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