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

From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: OT: a speakup success story (Re: couple linux(deb) questions)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 08:24:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070402152439.GA17487@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00f301c77538$2332d220$4ba65c90@vv507j>

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Oh, ok, an interesting concept. Haven't thought of a possibility like
that.

Greg

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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