If you're going to be a linux sysadmin, you are going to need to use a linux screen reader. You can't do everything remotely. For instance, you can't fix networking problems remotely. I have never heard of that DOS program you're talking about. But I use speakup every day. My job is to admin the servers at the University of Wisconsin Department of Mathematics. Most of the servers are rack mounted and (thank God) I haven't had to operate them at the console. But just this morning I had to work on a server that isn't rack mounted. I connected an external speech synth, logged in, started speakup, and did my thing. The rack mounted machines are all administered via the serial port. If I ever have to admin one of them at the console, my plan is to go to the server room with a null modem cable and a laptop that is running speakup and then log in via kermit. But that's just a theory. I've never had to try it. But I have done quite a bit of system admin on machines that do not have speakup installed. This I did with the afore mentioned laptop and kermit. So that works. Also, I've done about a bzillion linux installs via speakup. Honestly, I use speakup every day. It may be possible to be a linux system admin without it but I wouldn't want to try it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Homuth" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 11:59 AM Subject: Re: General questions from someone who's never used Speakup... > I'm wondering, though, what kind of feedback overall I can expect > from it. I'm giving serious thought to getting into system > administration, yes, but if it's going to offer as much or, I guess, > as little feedback as programs like asap for DOS have, then it > probably isn't really worth my switching, and I'd likely be better > off sticking to administering linux systems as best I can remotely, > since I get more feedback that way. Also, how does it handle > environments wherein the text is constantly changing? IE an active > realtime communications medium. If I understand it correctly, it's > designed to stop speaking when you start typing... is there perhaps a > way that that can be changed, or at least temporarily disabled? > Questions like that I'd rather have answered before I start looking > for old computers to turn into experimental linux boxes. > > James > At
