Well what really saddens me are those that nver started off on a text
based terminal like dos when they were young.
If something went wrong you could change a file, reinstall part or
all of the system including system files only, and other modules.
The registry is heaven and hell.
Its heaven because everything is in one place.
Its hell for the same reason.
If something dies chances are your os has had it.
Basically in the old days well forget with windows.
If something screws up and usually its quite big, reformatting will fix things.
However its all it will do.
You can't easily recover bits and pieces like you used to.
And most don't even know what the command console is these days.
They just run their systems.
If it breaks, put in a disk, and reformat and the problem goes away.
Fine, but no one is learning.
Unless you do linux or take a course or both unless you were born in
the early 90s like me or earlier you won't be able to handle things.
In some ways I prefured a more modular approach to the system like
dos though simple it never really crashed self.
If the configs crashed you could skip it and clear it.
Ofcause security wise with everything in the same place and all those
linked libraries well thats another thing.
ANd registry language is like an os in itself.
At 05:24 p.m. 29/04/2011, you wrote:
Other thing relating to keyboard usage is that since started using
computers, in my sighted days long before there was really such a
thing as a mouse, and since spent most of my time later on typing
code, I never really liked moving hands off the keyboard to use a
mouse for something simple, so there are a couple of keyboard
shortcuts have always used in windows that some relatively computer
literate sighties don't seem to know exist, but I've always used
them - simple examples are shift + delete to ignore/bypass recycle
bin, and backspace to browse one level up in windows explorer, etc.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message ----- From: "shaun everiss" <sm.ever...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The importance of patronage
yeah.
Thats a point.
The sighted use the mouse when the keyboard is faster.
So being blind has some advantages.
And we can do crazy things on our devices and can be the only one
that knows what its all about.
At 08:30 p.m. 28/04/2011, you wrote:
A waiter at a restaurant this side once said the following to me
after I explained some simple things to him like pouring level
indicators, cellphones, our money measuring slide things, general
living workarounds, etc.:
you're not disabled - you're differently enabled
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The importance of patronage
Hi Dark,
Well, I think there are always a few that do meet the stereotypical
view no matter where you go. I've met more than my share of the kind
that want everything done for them etc at summer camp, blind
conventions, etc but there are also plenty of people who don't meet
this stereotypical view as well. I think a lot of it is just how you,
as an individual are raised, and weather or not you were educated in a
public school or a specialized school etc.
I myself had had several years of useful vision so I was raised during
my formative years as a normal child. I would help my dad out working
on cars, computers, and other general electronics he would fix for
friends at work etc. When I lost my sight my dad didn't go, "I have a
blind son who is helpless." No, on the contrary he incurraged me to
continue helping him work on things in his work shop. Even if it was
something as simple as locating the right size socket, rench, or screw
driver, he wanted me to know and understand I was anything but
helpless. In fact, he put me to work changing transmissions etc at age
17 without any useful vision at all which goes to prove how I had that
little extra push some of the more institutionalized blind don't get I
think. If you aren't actively incurraged to overcome the blindness
thing you'll never quite get passed the "I'm helpless" mentality.
Cheers!
On 4/27/11, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
Well Tom, I'm not sure how it is in the states, but over here there is one
group of young blind people who do! conform to stomething of a
sterriotype.
I've noticed that some blind people (especially those who went
to specialist
schools), are! pretty useless, expect everything to be done for them, only
associate with other blind people etc.
That aside though I do know what you mean about organizations having
specific ideas of blind people.
For instance when I asked the rnib about using a chip and pin card, their
response was that I learn one cash machine near my home, but
when i pointed
out machines can come in different makes and models with different screen
prompts and such, they told me to "Get my carer to do it" ----
rather hard,
sinse I live on my own and don't have one, ---- which surprised them ;D.
In the end I just fixed things myself by arranging with my bank to have a
signature card, so that machines will print out a receit for me
to sign when
I pay for stuff with it and I can just get actual cash at my local bank.
My point though, the rnib had no idea of a blind person living entirely
alone and not! having "a carer"
The problem is this atitude is contagious. When I was trying to
activate the
wireless network on my hub but couldn't due to not being able to read the
key on the side, when I phoned the company tech support they
told me to "get
someone to read it for me" and when I pointed out there wasn't they said
"that what other blind people do" and put the phone down on me.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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