From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([144.92.166.194]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HYO5Q-0008BN-00 for ; Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:04:48 -0400 Received: from ulam.math.wisc.edu (ulam.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.245]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CF67438D for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:04:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from vv507j (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ulam.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB9C2BD9E for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:04:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <00f301c77538$2332d220$4ba65c90@vv507j> From: "John Heim" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <000c01c773ba$128732b0$6401a8c0@blanchew2fs98i><019701c7749b$2494c170$36c09792@mcgee> <20070401212606.GA28030@localhost.localdomain> Subject: OT: a speakup success story (Re: couple linux(deb) questions) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:03:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-UWMath-MailScanner: amavisd-new at math.wisc.edu X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:04:48 -0000 ~----- Original Message ----- > > Hmm, just wondering, why install apache on a laptop? Are you using it > as a server? That seems like a limit on a laptop's potential to me, I took it to job interviews and used it to show off my web apps. I didn't need a network connection because apache was running on the laptop. So during the interview, I'd boot my laptop and show both my web app and how I'd work with the screen reader. I started doing that after some people seemed kind of shocked to see a blind guy show up for a job interview. Hard to believe but some people aren't aware that blind people can use computers. I thought that showing them that I was actually quite functional, maybe even fluent, on a computer would give me a better chance. I even brought a cross-over cable and had dhcp running so they could connect their PC to my laptop, get an IP, and run the web apps on their PC. All this on a 150 Mhz laptop with 56 Mb of ram and a 6 Gb hard drive. And it wasn't bad in terms of speed. The web pages took a little while to load, 2 or 3 seconds, but that was easily explained. I thought it was a very impressive show but even so, I was looking for a job for about a year. I was already working at the University of Wisconsin at the time but I was warned I might be a layoff victim. So I had time to look for another job. I think though, that the laptop was a big part of why I ended up here at the University of Wisconsin, Math Department. They seemed very interested in what I had done with it. I guess I can remove all that stuff now. I've been here for 2 years as of yesterday.