On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:47:21PM -0700, Wendell Cochran wrote: > > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:07:31 -0400 (EDT) > From: Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I'm trying to find a good touchpad (as a standalone device) > > to use with Linux in the place of a regular mouse. > > [SNIP] > > > I've been using a Cirque Easy Cat with Linux all this century & > hope to never again touch a mouse. > > Why? Because I'd traced severe tendon pain in my upper right > arm to motion dictated by the space available for a mouse pad. > > The Easy Cat (the smallest touchpad I could find) works on > any horizontal surface 3.25 inches by 2.5 -- even on my knee. > > However, at first a fellow at Cirque discouraged me. The > company's Web site proclaimed that its touchpads were `for > Windows', so I enquired: What about Linux? Linux nix, he > said. But why? No demand, replied the lout, & therefore no > plans to adapt -- then or ever. > > Subsequent discussion in [EMAIL PROTECTED] reached the lout's > boss, who firmly disavowed bias against Linux. Just then two > late-comers to the discussion asked why all the fuss; just plug > in a Cirque, they told me, & away you go. Right they were, > too. > > Wendell Cochran > West Seattle > > > -- >
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