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  1. Helpful on How Effective are Ergonomic Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    After I started to get pain in my wrists I went to a doctor, got some pain relief gel, Ibugel forte 10%, and changed to a MS natural keyboard.

    I've now stopped using the gel and don't find my wists aching.

    I must admit that my typing took a while to recover, but in general I'm very happy to have made the change, though my friends now find it awkard to use my computer ;-)

    Just my experience, and hopefully let people know that if your wrists hurt, there is stuff you can do about it. For more information I contacted the Health & Safety Commision and got thier leaflets to try asnd find out what can be done about condition.

  2. What about the Spectrum ... on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 1

    Randomize User 54321 ???

  3. Re:/usr/local obsolete? on Designing Good Linux Applications · · Score: 1

    I've only been using Linux for a few month now, and it is an area I'm unsure about, how does package management relate to software you compiled yourself?

    I'm learning debian, but this is an area that it would nice to see answered

  4. attachment size on Time Warner Finds AOL Email Inadequate · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not that I would ever want to defend AOL in anyway, but I belive that all ISPs have a mail size limit, over here in NTL land our mail boxes are 10M, and of course you have to be careful about how big you can really recieve.

  5. Re:The most important choices are missing on Linux Web Browsers Compared · · Score: 1

    Out of interest, how do you browse with vi?

    I have used vi a bit and am familiar with the different modes.

    Cheers

  6. Re:To JMS: on Jeremiah, a New Series from B5 Creator, Debuts Sunday · · Score: 1

    Does any one know if Legend of the Rangers made it to TV in the UK?

    Cheers

  7. Re:Haven't we heard of this before? on Jeremiah, a New Series from B5 Creator, Debuts Sunday · · Score: 1

    I hate to say this, but you didn't say why it was different to Crusade.

    Much as I loved B5, Crusade just wasn't up it (what ever it is)

  8. Re:Navigation? on "The Matrix" Website Updated · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    CSS is good for reducing download time as you can remove the depriciated elements from the html, that includes the font tag.

    CSS is also great for that ideal situation where content and form are seperated.

    For more good information on using CSS see the following:-
    http://archive.webstandards.org/

  9. Re:I'm not a big fan of "recovery cd"s on Not A Graceful Recovery For HP Customers · · Score: 1

    I used to work at a computer shop where it was standard practice to include the CAB files on the hard drive and point the Registry at the folder containing them. This did take up some hard drive space, but was very convinant for the customers. Is this a bad thing too?

  10. Re:Linux isn't "Free as in Cheap" on Linux on Older Hardware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are obviously not unemployed with a very limited income. As a computer enthusiast with very limited money I pick up bits and pieces when possible, just the other day I got a 10G hard drive for my old 166, and because it's Linux, the kernel deals with it :-)

    There is also the market for recylced computers, plently of people pick up computers which range from 486s all the way to the dizzy hights of 166s.

    Do you want these people to have to use Win95? That's what they get installed on them, and it would be good to offer a Linux alternative.

    As a side note, recycle computer places can be great for picking up pieces of hardware which shops can't supply, old ISA network card, different types of memory ect

  11. Re:Well over here in the UK on Open Code in Public Procurement · · Score: 1

    Fraid I couldn't see the screen fully from where I was sitting.

    I think the sheer amount of choice available in Linux would make make it hard to be sure without sitting down at the computer.

  12. Star Office 5.2 on Preemptible Kernel Patch Accepted · · Score: 1

    But will it mean that Star Office 5.2 on my 166 with 128M RAM will actually run at a decent speed?

  13. Well over here in the UK on Open Code in Public Procurement · · Score: 1

    I saw on Friday that my job centre had up graded thier computer system. It was now running some form of Work Station. I couldn't be 100% sure it was running NT4 or Windows2000, but I think it was NT4.

    The application(s) they were running were command line based DOS looking things.

    Waste of Money? Could be. I think that they may have been running a Win 3.11 thing before, but I'm open to surguestion.

    Crazy

  14. Re:Anti-DMCA possibilities here on Jedi Knight Now (Not) Officially a Religion · · Score: 1
    Sounds like 'The First Church of the Home Computer' to me



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