Re: Solutions for hand injury from computer use

2010-07-01 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:35:31 -0700 Ethan Furman > wrote: > >> I'll have to give the left-handed mouse a try... hmmm -- not too bad >> so far. > > Since we're on the subject: I find the best solution for "lots of > typing with a little

Re: Solutions for hand injury from computer use

2010-07-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01Jul2010 19:00, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: | On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:35:31 -0700 Ethan Furman | wrote: | > I'll have to give the left-handed mouse a try... hmmm -- not too bad | > so far. | | Since we're on the subject: I find the best solution for "lots of | typing with a little mousing" to

Re: Solutions for hand injury from computer use

2010-07-01 Thread Aahz
In article <20100701190033.15cea...@geekmail.invalid>, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > >Since we're on the subject: I find the best solution for "lots of >typing with a little mousing" to be a keyboard with a pointing stick >(or track point or nav stick or whatever people call it). I'm not quite >s

Re: Solutions for hand injury from computer use

2010-07-01 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/1/2010 10:46 AM Brian Victor said... Emile van Sebille wrote: When I started having trouble about ten years ago, I switched to a keyboard with integrated mouse pad. No problems since... Where did you find that? I've been looking for one. (Assuming you mean a trackpad, and not a mouse p

Re: Solutions for hand injury from computer use

2010-07-01 Thread Brian Victor
Emile van Sebille wrote: > When I started having trouble about ten years ago, I switched to a > keyboard with integrated mouse pad. No problems since... Where did you find that? I've been looking for one. (Assuming you mean a trackpad, and not a mouse pad.) That said, my own solution was the

Re: Solutions for hand injury from computer use

2010-07-01 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:09:30 -0700 Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 7/1/2010 10:00 AM Andreas Waldenburger said... > > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:35:31 -0700 Ethan Furman > > wrote: > > > >> I'll have to give the left-handed mouse a try... hmmm -- not too > >> bad so far. > > > > Since we're on the subj

Re: Solutions for hand injury from computer use

2010-07-01 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/1/2010 10:00 AM Andreas Waldenburger said... On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:35:31 -0700 Ethan Furman wrote: I'll have to give the left-handed mouse a try... hmmm -- not too bad so far. Since we're on the subject: I find the best solution for "lots of typing with a little mousing" to be a keyboar

Re: Solutions for hand injury from computer use

2010-07-01 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:35:31 -0700 Ethan Furman wrote: > I'll have to give the left-handed mouse a try... hmmm -- not too bad > so far. Since we're on the subject: I find the best solution for "lots of typing with a little mousing" to be a keyboard with a pointing stick (or track point or nav st

Re: Solutions for hand injury from computer use

2010-07-01 Thread Ethan Furman
Ben Finney wrote: geremy condra writes: Right. I'm much more concerned about the position of my Ctrl key, to avoid hand injury from all the key chording done as a programmer. Not saying its a cure-all, but I broke my hand pretty badly a few years ago and had a lot of luck with a homemade foot

Solutions for hand injury from computer use (was: I strongly dislike Python 3)

2010-06-30 Thread Ben Finney
geremy condra writes: > > Right. I'm much more concerned about the position of my Ctrl key, to > > avoid hand injury from all the key chording done as a programmer. > > Not saying its a cure-all, but I broke my hand pretty badly a few years > ago and had a lot of luck with a homemade foot switch