From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 22 20:13:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE53106566C for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 20:13:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542038FC13 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 20:13:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4MKDFEW087136; Sat, 22 May 2010 13:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 13:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 13:13:14 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20100522201314.GA76746@thought.org> References: <20100522034707.GA5188@thought.org> <20100522091753.a2f3b17d.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100522091753.a2f3b17d.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, GUARANTEED_100_PERCENT,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on ethic.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: an ACK, still here... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 20:13:23 -0000 On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 09:17:53AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2010 20:47:10 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > anyway, this is thanks and an ACK mostly to polyt and roland. i > > will get down and find the usb port, but if i did it now i'd > > never be able to haul myself back up. they would find my > > bleached bones beside my 'puter, crouched and looking for that > > usb slot. > > Oh, I had a similar problem, too: USB slot only on the back > of the PC, hard to reach, and that's why uncomfortable and > furthermore unusable. > > My solution was to get an USB cable USB-A plug to USB-A socket, > quite simple, and have the USB socket (now on wire) directly > on the desk. i run into some problems since i only have one harnd/arm, and that is the sheer weight of the dell. it is heavy++. yeah, the usb ports may be or ARE on the back of the tower case. there may be just-one in front somewhere. > > If you recognize you often need more than one USB slot, you > usually would decide to get an USB hub, also a good tool on > top of the desk. > > One of the most comfortable solutions I've seen (and used) > is to have a USB slot (ot two, usually) on the keyboard. A > good example for this is the Apple keyboard, and of course > the Sun USB type 7 keyboard. This way, you can also attach > an USB mouse directly on the table, or have two slots for > removable media (e. g. for USB sticks, USB hard disks or > USB camera, or webcam, or USB steam engine). > > Allthough most "modern" PCs have USB slots on their front, > it's still inconvenient to put them under the desk, allowing > a chair or your feet to kick (and maybe break) the USB > stick - I've already seen that happening LIVE. On the other > hand... who wants to put ugly designed PC minitowers onto > the desk? It's not that they look like an SGI Octane... :-) > lolololol. no, i'll keep my hardware out of sight and be very-very careful:-) actually, a friend at the u of washington says he will have a week or so next month to help me with some things-computer. i am really waaaaay overdue to get me a dual-core or whatever intel or amd computer. a Second one; i already have one as my ns1.thought.org. my fellow computer geek says he can set things up so that my *new* 2-core will be both a SECOND ns1.thought.org as well as my new tao.thought.org. gary ps: late last night i wrote roland offline with the update that i cannot get my optical drives to be recognized. (((i Am portupgrading, so things are in flux.))) my "theraputic reboot" [shutdown -r now] did little good. > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel