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Use XKeymacs. You can find it here: http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html

http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/vine/annex/x03-09209/index. htm

The shape provides a comfortable rest for your hand. The ball is neither too big nor to small and rests under the fingers. Sorry, thumb-ball apologists, the thumb is just not as dextrous as the fingers. I don't care if it's 'good enough', the fingers are better. The thumb here is used for pressing buttons - the left and right button can be pressed seperately or together with the tiniest movement of the thumb. The buttons have a large surface area and press easily. The wheel is on the left hand side, so it doesn't have to compete for attention with the ball or buttons.

The only reason I'm not still using this device is that it isn't optical, and the two I own have lost precision due to wear on the rollers over the years. I've tried several of the newer trackballs. The current MS trackball has a wheel between the buttons on the side, and the ball is unecessarily big and heavy. Putting the wheel between the buttons makes sense on a mouse where you can have a finger on each button and one on the wheel if necessary, but three controls is a little much for the beleagered thumb.

The logitech I've been using recently ( http://thetechzone.com/db_images/id228_images/pic1 .gif ) is the best I've found so far. The shape is okay, the ball is about right, and the location of the wheel is not ideal but tolerable. Unfortunately the latest version of the driver software doesn't allow the right/left buttons to be mapped to the side of the mouse. I'd use the earlier drivers, but the new drivers also support my keyboard. I also found that the buttons on the side required just enough pressure to click that they'd jog the position of the ball slightly when clicked, which is problematic for certain procedures. The locking ring that held the ball in place on the intellimouse was also a little more comfortable to use than the sharp edge of this one's cradle. Finally, it's wireless, which means changing batteries. I think the arguments for making mice wireless are much stronger than the those for trackballs. A USB dock would have been a nice compromise, but honestly I'd be happy to get a trackball with the buttons in the 'right' place at this point.

Everything in emacs has a long learning curve - learning the keys, learning how to find out about the keys..., but it is mostly effort that you can transfer outside of emacs. I thought perhaps I was swimming against the tide with emacs, having been forced onto Windows for my desktop for some time, but then I discoverd XKeymacs - now I can use the emacs keys in almost any windows app, so I can edit in Outlook, Word etc., as if it's emacs. I only need to know one interface, and it's the most efficient one I've found. Almost all applications now appear to have "emacs lite" embedded in their edit areas.

Ironically, I installed Ubuntu, and found that most apps there used the windows keys (I know this must be an editable setting, but I haven't looked yet). So, as a hardcore Emacs user I'm actually much more comfortable on Windows than Ubuntu!

If I had a dime for every time I hit C-x C-s while writing a post...
You need XKeymacs.

The music is so low quality that it's hardly worth it - 32kbps mono, 22kHz? No thanks.

For anybody who is actually interested in extracting the music from the Flash files, you can use a utility like HugFlash to do it.

Highly recommended. Having the primary buttons under your thumb was a stroke of genius, although putting the scroll wheel there isn't my ideal choice.

In terms of control layout, the Microsoft IntelliMouse Trackball (http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/vine/annex/x03-09209/0.jpg ) is my favourite choice, but that's been discontinued for years, and I don't think that they ever did an optical version.

It really is a shame how few people are even willing to try a trackball. I actually have to keep a mouse plugged in to my work PC for guests to use.

Not mentioned: the PuTTY terminal emulator and ssh client, which lets you connect from your Windows box to some other system and so get some work done...

It also includes an scp implementation so you can securely transfer files between your Windows system and Unix boxes.

(Perhaps a niche market, but XKeymacs is useful for Emacs junkies stuck with Windows applications... there's also the Windows ports of GNU Emacs and XEmacs of course.)

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I thought Gojira was HUGE in Japan!

is this possibly Hi-Ho your talking about??? i cant read the kanji's on their site which explain all the technical details so i really dont know wht they offer but i can hear what they say on the video so i know they are som bad ass ISP...

It's already out

Another flash-enabled applet with a similar tour, but of Japan, is availible by clicking here.

You don't get a dedicated line for that price, you only get a shared line. In the case of the cheapest one, 10Mbps for $100, which is for buildings, you can share with at most 100+ other people. WOW! Imagine you living in an area of /.ers; you'd get 100Kbps for $100. Is that cheap?? You also have the minimum of 10 users in the building in this case.

Here is the pricing information from NTT(japanese, no provider):
http://www.ntt-east.co.jp/flets/opt/s_outline.html

and a provider:
http://home.hi-ho.ne.jp/home/bflets/ryokin.html

In sum:
100M: 27900 once, 17900/month
10M: 27900 once, 9900/month
bldg: 12700 once, 6300/month
plus cables and some extras.