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DXMachina - Jan 08, 2008 3:38:04 am PST #4152 of 25501
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

CompUSA bought by TigerDirect. [link]


Tom Scola - Jan 08, 2008 3:48:18 am PST #4153 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Huh. Apple just released new MacPros, a week before the SteveNote: [link]


evil jimi - Jan 08, 2008 4:15:48 am PST #4154 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Ginger ... Have you tried switching your mouse to left-hand use? Seriously. About ten years ago I totally messed my right arm up--can't recall how I did it--and could barely lift it for a couple of weeks. As a result, I had to start using my mouse in my left hand. Took a few days to get used to it but I've never gone back to using my right hand. I am, by the way, right-handed for everything else. Except masturbation but that's a topic for another forum.


DCJensen - Jan 08, 2008 5:01:19 am PST #4155 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Apple's Mac Pro Tech Specs page for above: [link]


SuziQ - Jan 08, 2008 5:04:40 am PST #4156 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Ginger ... Have you tried switching your mouse to left-hand use?

Not Ginger, but I mouse left at work and right at home. Actually at home I have a touchpad, but I tend to use that with my right hand. I'm naturally right handed.

I find at work it actually increases my productivity since I do a lot of work on the number pad part of my keyboard, so my right hand can do the numbers and my left can mouse at the same time.

This was something suggested by my surgeon after I had my carpel tunnel surgery on my right hand. Was one of the best suggestions ever.


Theodosia - Jan 08, 2008 5:22:22 am PST #4157 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I switched to the goofy-mouse a couple years ago as I noticed my right hand was getting too tired and achey. It seems to spread it out.

Note that I can only mouse with my left (I do graphics and game play quite well) but I can't use trackpads or trackpoints to save my life!

One of the best aspects of left-mousing in an office environments is that it disinclines most coworkers from using your workstation. :-)


amych - Jan 08, 2008 5:24:32 am PST #4158 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I've gotten to the point where I'm more comfortable with a trackpad than anything else, but the trackpoint continues to strike me as the stupidest input idea in the history of computing.


SuziQ - Jan 08, 2008 5:33:28 am PST #4159 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

but the trackpoint continues to strike me as the stupidest input idea in the history of computing.

Is that the nipple or clit looking thing in the middle of the keyboard?

One of the best aspects of left-mousing in an office environments is that it disinclines most coworkers from using your workstation.

Absolutely. I love the gobsmacked look someone gets when they try to use my set-up. When tech support takes over my computer long distance sometimes I'm nice and tell them the "right-mouse-click" and "left-mouse-click" are reversed. Usually depends on how condesending they have been with me.


amych - Jan 08, 2008 5:45:18 am PST #4160 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Is that the nipple or clit looking thing in the middle of the keyboard?

That's the one. I've been calling it the "keyboard clitoris" for years, occasionally to the very wrongest audiences...


Jon B. - Jan 08, 2008 6:21:51 am PST #4161 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

The mouse seems bigger when you use the opposite hand.