Re: [orca-list] Ot: does anyone have a certification from the Linux foundation?

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Hi.

Wanted to chime in.  The posts on the mailing lists I have frequented 
over the years from people who do sys admin work also say they use ssh a 
lot with clients like Putty on Windows.  I'm sure there are similar gui 
products with Orca on Linux that you can use to connect a laptop to a 
remote server.  There's always just plain old ssh itself running Speakup 
locally through something like a Gnu-Screen session too.  I understand 
there are blind people who also used Emacspeak to do server sysadmin 
work.  I bring up remoting because so many servers have sound disabled 
and I also understand that they may view Speakup as a security 
vulnerability somehow. (Not sure about how that can be but, there you 
go.)  So, it's important to get to know tools that let you access a 
server remotely.  To Conclude, it is entirely feasible for you as a 
blind person to do this kind of job.  Others have done so before you 
and, if they could, you can.  Nuff said.  Good luck and all the best!

Alex M


On 03/08/2016 04:51 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> No I do not have any Linux certs, but I will say that there is no reason you cn not do a good job managing 
> Linux servers using speakup mostly, but
> sometimes Orca as well.
> All of the standard tools and utils I can think of work with speakup, but some that stream realtime data are 
> of course harder to use as data is
> constantly being updated.
> When one must work with a tool like that you usually need to either slow down refresh rates quite a bit, or 
> take snapshots of the system and use those.
> Often something can be piped to a filtering application, awk, sed, grep, etc to help by removing data one 
> does not wish to her. Also speakup lets you
> block out parts of the screen in its read window mode so you can get rid of some distrctions.
> Of course to get a job and do it well you will need to be better than your sighted counterparts, but is this 
> not usually the cse for anything we do?
> We will be slower having to listen to things than a sighted person will be reading it, so beiing better, i.e. 
> cutting to the heart of a problem, knowing
> what to expect, etc. is of great importance when and where it is possible.