[nfbcs] With silent disk, how do you know?

[Louis Maher]

If you have an unpowered USB hub, you can plug in a USB fan that will run when your computer is active.  

Another way is to use an iOS smart phone, and the Microsoft Seeing AI to look at your screen.  Using OCR applications on smart phones works some what.  My iPhone 6+ can only read a few words on the screen.



Regards
Louis Maher
Phone: 713-444-7838
E-mail ljmaher03 at outlook.com

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Mike Gorse via nfbcs
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 9:04 AM
To: Tracy Carcione via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Mike Gorse <mike at straddlethebox.org>; Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] With silent disk, how do you know?

Good question. I have the same issue and end up resorting to weird tests in order to figure out whether my laptop is on or not. I used to press the button on my cd drive, since the drive would generally open if the computer is on, except that now I have a laptop without a cd drive. 
Sometimes I'll plug my iPhone into my computer and observe whether it starts to charge, as a test to see whether the computer is on.

On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs wrote:

> With the new silent disks, how do you know your computer is doing 
> something, when Jaws goes silent?  For instance, I have trouble making 
> sure my new laptop is on.  I can feel a tiny draft from the fan, but 
> it's very subtle.
> Or, just now, my old work desktop decided to do an automatic update, 
> and Jaws stopped talking.  The only way I knew the PC was still 
> working was that I could hear the disk spinning, and, when it rebooted 
> after the update, spinning for another few minutes before Jaws finally came up.
> So, with the new silent discs, how do you know something is happening 
> and you should just wait a bit?
> Tracy
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> nfbcs mailing list
> nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnfbne
> t.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fnfbcs_nfbnet.org&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ccb40d3
> b7daf84718420808d593ebc28f%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%
> 7C636577563142254423&sdata=cwNYecual4rJNyilczVIs4FmLWLnEwv8Q9bT83nToZQ
> %3D&reserved=0 To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your 
> account info for nfbcs:
> https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnfbne
> t.org%2Fmailman%2Foptions%2Fnfbcs_nfbnet.org%2Fmike%2540straddlethebox
> .org&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ccb40d3b7daf84718420808d593ebc28f%7C84df9e7fe9f6
> 40afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636577563142254423&sdata=ZKbBXTYSuT%2BI
> VWuKqgu6ZOyoZ78QZKE6CVpnxs5eDRs%3D&reserved=0
>

_______________________________________________
nfbcs mailing list
nfbcs at nfbnet.org
https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnfbnet.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fnfbcs_nfbnet.org&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ccb40d3b7daf84718420808d593ebc28f%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636577563142254423&sdata=cwNYecual4rJNyilczVIs4FmLWLnEwv8Q9bT83nToZQ%3D&reserved=0
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nfbcs:
https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnfbnet.org%2Fmailman%2Foptions%2Fnfbcs_nfbnet.org%2Fljmaher03%2540outlook.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ccb40d3b7daf84718420808d593ebc28f%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636577563142254423&sdata=TuLaGxI%2BOe%2BVq8XoxI4nOeX8z1bOod%2BxFgrBa%2BGm%2FQI%3D&reserved=0