[nfbcs] Possible Computer Science Speaking Topics

Tue Mar 5 02:28:58 UTC 2013

Hey Tami,

Why do you say that Ubuntu is by far the most accessible distro?

I am running several ubuntu servers, but also Red Hat, SuSE, and some
arch systems as well.  Arch has the accessibiliyt advantage of having
a command line based WPA configuration utility (netcfg)

Jim

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 06:07:34PM -0800, Tami Jarvis wrote:
> Louis,
> 
> Welcome to Linux! Have you tried the Orca List? I've heard a bit there about
> Orca with Fedora, but don't pay as much attention, I'm afraid, since I am
> running Ubuntu... Ubuntu is by far the most accessible distro, although
> others are catching up!
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Tami
> 
> On 03/01/2013 02:30 PM, Louis Maher wrote:
> >Curtis,
> >
> >I am also looking for a speaker--one that I can ask how do you get started
> >noting that my operating system will be Red Hat 5.7.
> >
> >
> >Regards
> >Louis Maher
> >713-444-7838
> >ljmaher at swbell.net
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Curtis Chong [mailto:curtischong at earthlink.net]
> >Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 8:23 AM
> >To: ljmaher at swbell.net
> >Cc: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
> >Subject: RE: Possible Computer Science Speaking Topics
> >
> >Louis:
> >
> >Thanks for this idea.  I will follow up and try to find a good contact to
> >talk about this.
> >
> >Cordially,
> >
> >Curtis Chong
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Louis Maher [mailto:ljmaher at swbell.net]
> >Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 4:19 AM
> >To: 'Curtis Chong'
> >Cc: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> >Subject: Possible Computer Science Speaking Topics
> >
> >Curtis,
> >
> >I have attached a question, and responses, that I send to the Orca Linux
> >screen reader list.  I have also pasted the document below my signature.
> >
> >Information on the Orca screen reader can be found at
> >(http://projects.gnome.org/orca/).
> >
> >It seems that Orca is a very hands-on system that you have to assemble out
> >of various parts.  I suspect that since there is no money in Orca, it has
> >not  become a smoothly packaged product.
> >
> >It would be interesting to find a speaker knowledgeable about Orca, since
> >most of the heavy science is still done on Linux.
> >
> >Any suggestions for a speaker, or solution to my problems, would be greatly
> >appreciated.
> >
> >Good luck on your job hunt.
> >
> >Regards
> >Louis Maher
> >713-444-7838
> >ljmaher at swbell.net
> >----
> >From:	Louis Maher <ljmaher at swbell.net>
> >Sent:	Sunday, February 10, 2013 12:49 PM
> >To:	Orca List (orca-list at gnome.org)
> >Subject:	Orca Running on Remote Servers
> >
> >Folks,
> >
> >My company uses Red Hat 5.7 on Massively Parallel computers.  A few of the
> >nodes of the cluster of processors are login nodes.  These login nodes are
> >used for code editing and job submission.
> >
> >People in our company access the cluster through VNC (virtual network
> >computing) which provides a
> >graphical user interface (GUI) window running on Windows 7.
> >
> >I access the cluster using the character-based SecureCRT windows program
> >which provides a SSH (secure shell) session into the cluster.  Once in the
> >cluster, I use the Linux screen program to get as many
> >character- based windows as I want.  The character-based approach is
> >limited, and I do not have access to the GUI-based job setup and queuing
> >systems.  Often we write plug-ins to commercial software, and that
> >commercial software brings its own powerful and inaccessible GUIs.
> >
> >Questions:
> >
> >If I had a laptop running Linux, is there a way to place Orca on the remote
> >server and give me a GUI interface into the remote cluster?
> >
> >Technically I could make my Linux laptop part of the cluster, but would the
> >job editing and job queuing programs need to be running on my laptop before
> >I could access them?
> >
> >We have several domains, each with its own cluster.  If I wanted to access
> >these other domains, would I have to have a laptop specifically dedicated to
> >each domain?
> >
> >Commercially available job-setup GUI's are extremely powerful for they
> >provide a means to connect several smaller plug-ins to make complex flows.
> >The output of the job scheduling GUI is an extremely complex XML file.  I
> >can make small changes in this file, but writing one of these files from
> >scratch is not practical.
> >
> >So my base question is:
> >If I had a laptop running Linux, is there a way to place Orca on the remote
> >server and give me a GUI interface into remote computers?
> >
> >I will have to use Red Hat 5.7 for my effort.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Regards
> >Louis Maher
> >713-444-7838
> >ljmaher at swbell.net
> >
> >
> >---
> >From: orca-list <orca-list-bounces at gnome.org> on behalf of Christopher
> >Chaltain <chaltain at gmail.com> Sent: Sun 2/10/2013 2:53 PM
> >
> >I've never done it, but my understanding is that PulseAudio will send your
> >audio over the network, so this may be an option.
> >
> >On 10/02/13 12:57, Bill Dengler wrote:
> >>I don't think VNC transfers audio.
> >>If it did then technically it should be possible.
> >>I don't think it does ; so do you know of an alternative?
> >>Bill
> >>On 02/10/2013 01:48 PM, Louis Maher wrote:
> >---
> >From: Bill Dengler <billkd314159 at gmail.com> Sent: Sun 2/10/2013 12:58 PM I
> >don't think VNC transfers audio.
> >If it did then technically it should be possible.
> >I don't think it does ; so do you know of an alternative?
> >Bill
> >---
> >
> >
> >--
> >2/11/2013
> >alex.midence at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>Do you use a braille display?  I wonder if vnc would transfer braille.
> >
> >Under KVM there is a mechanism to forward braille to an instance of BRLTTY
> >running on the host. On the guest system, if I remember rightly, a Baum
> >braille display is emulated, then Qemu/KVM takes care of the communication
> >with the instance of BRLTTY that runs on the host, and which drives the real
> >braille device.
> >
> >I hope I have this roughly right. I haven't tried it in practice because I
> >access guests via terminal sessions or ssh, but it should allow you to run
> >Orca on a guest system.
> >
> >Brlapi has network support, I think, so you might be able to send the
> >traffic to another machine.
> >
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