From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 26 08:28:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24767 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:28:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24731 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:27:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from serv.net (dialup516.serv.net [207.207.70.81]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA08481; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980625205612.01094@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: fewtch@serv.net From: Tim Gerchmez To: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: wasting time :-) Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OK, so maybe there's a potential use for them (maybe on a laptop as well, where the mouse cursor can be hard to spot). But I won't run 'em on my desktop machine :-) On 25-Jun-98 Nik Clayton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 01:54:35AM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: >> Those Eyes-type programs make me nervous as all heck... how can anybody get >> any work done with a pair of eyes following their mouse cursor everywhere > > A couple (well, maybe 4 or 5) years ago I was working on luggable laptops > with monochrome or 16 grayscale screens. The mouse cursor had a tendency to > 'submarine'. > > Finding it was made much easier with a pair of eyes indicating the rough > direction of its location. > > N > -- > Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache > Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need > Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez Date: 26-Jun-98 Time: 08:27:05 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message