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Janusz, The beauty of Linux is that no matter what you want to do,
there’s always a lot of packages that will do it for you. Same goes
for administration within the context of an ISP or hosting provider. I’ve recently set up a machine to serve mail via webmail,
Pop3S, Imap and webmail, ftp, http and https, a proxy and file sharing via
samba. A few packages that I used for this were: procmail, for
organizing mail, fetchmail for receiving mail, postfix for providing the
connectors plus it helped managed the maildir format well and squirrelmail for
providing a webmail access method to peoples mailboxes. I also used
webmin for remote web based account administration. For http and https I
used the old reliable Apache, for the proxy I used squid with the sarg package
handling the reporting really well. There are a few other packages
running in the background also however I’ve not had to touch that server
in a few months now as it’s up time is flawless. One important thing to note is this machine is running OpenSuSE
10.3 with no graphical environment. It has no screen and a keyboard is
only attached when something goes really wrong. Generally, when I
want or need to do something with it I access it from another box via
SSH. This in my experience would be the best way of administering a
remote or a local server. Even at work, where each rack of servers has a
console, we rairly go near the server rooms. Mainly because their very
cold but also, it’s rair that a server should be rebooted so everything
can be done remotely. Darragh Ó Héiligh Experienced Web development, Linux / Windows Workstation and
server support, Assistive technology support and consultancy. Website: http://www.digitaldarragh.com From: orca-list-bounces gnome org
[mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Mgr. Janusz Chmiel Dear
developers of Orca,
I would like to emphasize one big remarkable aspect of Your ammazing project, Opensource
Screen Reader, which can access Gnome applications. This remarkable aspect is,
that because Linux operating system can be obtained free of charge, and because
Orca is opensource and freely awailable, it can mean, that many visually
impaired users can use their computers for their job. I would like to start a
little professional discussion, if there is some chance, that experienced
visually impaired people could work like a server administrators for Internet
service providing companyes. For companyes, which are providing access to The
Internet by using various technology such as ADSL, cable, ETC. I think, that
somebody could theoretically try to found out, which Linux distributions are
used by server administrators for managing connections to The Internet. If
those applications are working in The terminal Window, for example,
applications, which are used by ISP companyes to monitor ADSL modems,
applications, which can for example restart cable modem remotely, applications,
which are used to monitor The status of connection of A specific ISP customer.
I think, that Java Sun company are doing really ammazing project, which can
have significant role in The complex process, which enables visually impaired
users to use their computers for a job purposes. Because Orca is very stable
Screen Reader, I AM very nicely surprised by it. I Am aware, that my topic is
may be not good topic to write about it in to this mailing list, but I would
like to start a little discussion about possibility to enable visually impaired
users to work like fully valuable server administrators for ISP companyes.
If somebody is having experience, which applications are used in The ISP
companyes for network and server administration, I would like to know somethink
about it. Eventhough I did not study informatic, and I Am not experienced
server administrator. I would like to start this little discussion for users,
who would want to work like a server administrators.
Eventhough I Am not experienced professional, my opinion is, that developers of
Screen Reader, who would like to help in this field is to develope algorithms,
which are able to watch for several dynamically changing areas of active
screen. The main development complex task is I think to develope algorithms, which
could inform visually impaired users, if some area on The Screen has changed or
no. If yes, internal cursor could automatically jump to The field, which has
been changed. Because tone is much more faster than speech, user could define
which tones would Orca or other Screen reader to play, if specific area of
screen has changed. Because it is inpossible to monitor too many areas of A
screen, which are constantly changed, user should choose The most important of
those areas. Nex complex task is to develope those algorithms so those
algorithms would not to comsume too many system resources, because system
resources is important factor for ISP companyes. I Am aware, that I Am writing
somethink like a science fiction, because it is probably inpossible to make somethink
like ofscreen model of active application like DCM compatible Screen readers in
Windows environment. But I would like to know, if there is some chance to make
functions, which could enable visually impaired users to work like a server
administrator. I think, that this topic could be interesting for experienced
professional in some of remarkable conferences, which are focused on Screen
Readers in Linux. But it is only my personal opinion. May be, that many of us
could think, that I AM writing about non interesting topic. If so, I Am very
sorry. Thank
you very much, that You read my E-mail. And I AM very sorry to all of us, who
are suffering because of my pour English grammar. I will do my best to improve
my grammar and spelling. The
kindness regards. Janusz
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