From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 6 18:24:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from excalibur.skynet.be (excalibur.skynet.be [195.238.3.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18C637B402 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:24:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.9] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by excalibur.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with ESMTP id g272OSD18905; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 03:24:28 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri via e-mail. Try Eudora (http://www.eudora.com/), mutt (http://www.mutt.org/), or pine (http://www.washington.edu/pine/). But please, get something other than Outlook. Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 03:24:07 +0100 To: "Jason C. Wells" , Ceri From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Typing Injuries Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 5:54 PM -0800 2002/03/06, Jason C. Wells wrote: > And in case you wonder, I have zero trouble switching between qwerty and > dvorak when I am forced to do so. Heh! You just try switching back and forth between American-style QWERTY, International English QWERTY (which puts at least one or two additional keys on the keyboard and moves a few of the non-alphanumeric keys around), Belgian/French/Dutch AZERTY (because they have so many diacritic characters, you have to hit at least three keys in order to get to any of the numbers or alphanumeric characters that English speakers are used to), and then try doing all that while mixing-and-matching any of the specified keyboard types with the corresponding software keyboard maps. It's enough to drive you insane.... > My advice is not terribly sophisticated from a medical standpoint. Both > trackballs and dvorak are a love 'em or hate 'em proposition according to > many opinions. Your mileage may vary. As with pretty much all of the ergonomic equipment on the market, which was part of my point about RSI being a very personal thing, with every individual reacting to different problems and different solutions in a unique way. Bottom line -- you basically have to try doing different things different ways until you find something that works for you. Well, that's assuming that you can find something that works for you at all. 1/2 ;-) -- Brad Knowles, Do you hate Microsoft? Do you hate Outlook? Then visit the Anti-Outlook page at and see how much fun you can have. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message