Dell is the only computer I've had the pleasure to break down for reuse
and recycling that has its hard drive close to the bottom of the front
panel screwed onto that panel from the outside with the cabling into the
drive inserted into the drive from below the bottom edge of the drive. You
don't want to reboot a dell with your foot because doing so too often
really will kill the hard drive. Other systems that have hard drives in
them have them lying parallel with the floor and the connections are
toward the front of the computers.


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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:12:37PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Dell is the only computer I've had the pleasure to break down for reuse
> and recycling that has its hard drive close to the bottom of the front
> panel screwed onto that panel from the outside with the cabling into the
> drive inserted into the drive from below the bottom edge of the drive. You
> don't want to reboot a dell with your foot because doing so too often
> really will kill the hard drive. Other systems that have hard drives in
> them have them lying parallel with the floor and the connections are
> toward the front of the computers.
>
Hi Jude,
what made you post this interesting observation?
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The discussion on dell and linux was what prompted me to make that post.
When I bought this Dell back in August of 1999 the only way Dell would
install linux was if you were a business. I got a bad combination of
win98se and office2000 that crashed the system regularly because
c:\windows\win386.swp kept getting corrupted. I found out much later
after I had gotten Linux talking that a single line in autoexec.bat would
have solved that problem but by then it had been way too many installs and
I can assure you installing windows 98se using instructions you wrote down
on a piece of braille paper and listening for the sound of the hard drive
no longer running to key in the next command is an adventure noone should
have to live through! Since I live alone when Windows crashed I had the
"pleasure" of reinstalling all of it. That's why windows nt/2000/xp all
have screen narrator on them. I've never tried installing windows with
screen narrator so don't know if it'll work. For those that are
interested, at the desktop hit windowskey-u and hit return. Your computer
will start doing something you didn't know it could do before provided
your sound card is working and speakers have enough volume. Oh by the
way, screen reading is especially useful for those people with a.d.h.d.
multitaskers of the first order; you can listen to one document on one
computer while looking at another document on a second computer, and here
you thought that was just put there for the blind and dyslectics!




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On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:30:18PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> The discussion on dell and linux was what prompted me to make that post.
Ah. I was not quite as obvious to me, as it was not part of the same
thread. I´d suggest to add an opening comment next time.
> When I bought this Dell back in August of 1999 the only way Dell would
> install linux was if you were a business. I got a bad combination of
> win98se and office2000 that crashed the system regularly because
> c:\windows\win386.swp kept getting corrupted. I found out much later
> after I had gotten Linux talking
Was that with the 'speakup' version of the 2.4 kernel?
> that a single line in autoexec.bat would have solved that problem but
> by then it had been way too many installs and I can assure you
> installing windows 98se using instructions you wrote down on a piece
> of braille paper and listening for the sound of the hard drive no
> longer running to key in the next command is an adventure noone should
> have to live through!
While I have not done all that, I have had to put my ear next to a
computer to make sure that the hard drive was not reading anything while
investigating a problem with software installs.
> Since I live alone when Windows crashed I had the "pleasure" of
> reinstalling all of it. That's why windows nt/2000/xp all have
> screen narrator on them.
Well that one thing that microsoft did something good :-)
> I've never tried installing windows with screen narrator so don't
> know if it'll work. For those that are interested, at the desktop
> hit windowskey-u and hit return.
Something to try on my friends computer :-)
> Your computer will start doing something you didn't know it could do
> before provided your sound card is working and speakers have enough
> volume. Oh by the way, screen reading is especially useful for those
> people with a.d.h.d. multitaskers of the first order; you can listen
> to one document on one computer while looking at another document on
> a second computer, and here you thought that was just put there for
> the blind and dyslectics!
I actaully use festival all the time. I have a shell script that uses
xclip and festival in an infinete loop. It reads the clipboard and then
speakis it. I 'snark' a webpage into the clip board and then hear it. I
also have a macro for mutt to pipe the email text to festival so that I
can hear and read the text simultaneously.

Any way, I asked because as a sighted person who uses mutt with threaded
view, your post was not part of a thread and seemed out of place and I
was curious about what you where trying to covey. I always appreciate
reading your posts becuase of your unique perspecitve. Although I too
have used my foot to push the power button on my computer :-)
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