"Jay Denebeim"  wrote in message 
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> In article 
> ,
> StarFuryG7   wrote:
>>On Nov 8, 9:14 pm, "Nicole Massey"
 wrote:
>>One of the things that's
>>always bothered me about "Covert Affairs" is that one of the main
>>characters is supposed to be something of a computer whiz even though
>>he's blind, which I've found to be incredibly unrealistic.
>
> She's not the first person.  Software engineering/computer
> administration is one of the traditional things a non-sited person can
> do really well.  Of course in these days of GUIs its a bit harder.
> Plain text helps I would imagine.

Actually, Netware before 4x was a bit of a pain, from what I've heard. I'm 
running a 2003 server right now, and have been runing NT based servers since 
before I lost my sight, (totally unrelated to the blindness) and so it 
hasn't been a problem. I'm also managing, mostly, to function as the 
publisher and EIC for a free RPG magazine, though when change tracking is on 
and the changes get three or four levels deep it gets to be a bit much to 
follow.
I also do music work with a sequencer both with DOS and in a Windows 
environment, and they're completely different beasts -- the screen reader 
for DOS has a lot more learning curve than the Windows version, though I 
suspect it's more clear and has less headaches down the line than the 
windows versions.
The big issue is pulling things into controllable environments -- newsgroups 
and mailing lists trump fora, for example, because you can control the mail 
and news reader to your own preferences while forum software is usually most 
functional for sighted folks and has fundamental headaches for the blind.
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