Re: OT: a speakup success story (Re: couple linux(deb) questions)

["John Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu>]

One note... I said I had dhcp running -- that is not correct. I started it 
manually if necessary. It would be a bad thing to go to a job interview and 
plug a laptop running dhcp into the network. That would not get you the job. 
It might get you escorted off the premises though.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: OT: a speakup success story (Re: couple linux(deb) questions)


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> Oh, ok, an interesting concept. Haven't thought of a possibility like
> that.
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> Greg
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> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:03:57AM -0500, John Heim wrote:
>> 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.
>>
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