I used to suffer from a very acute case of RSI, requiring wearing a wrist brace and seeing a physiotherapist twice a week for more than a year. As a programmer, I seriously considered finding a new career but thankfully, I have recovered. Of course, recovery is relative here and as you know, you never come back to your college days when you could abuse your writs with all nighters after all nighters, you are always as risk. In my case, I can type without wrist braces for 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, and feel no pain. I do that on a full size keyboard at a desk; I can type with a laptop on my lap but only for a few hours before I am reminded that this is wrong.
One thing that really helped me was to get rid of the mouse. My main setup is a Unicomp EnduraPro keyboard with a touch-stick. A touch-stick is not as fast and as accurate as a mouse but the touch-stick is right there on the home row and it's easy to use with either hand to you don't put all the strain on the same hand all the time. I tried the Lenovo UltraNav keyboard but I don't like its cramped layout and I fell that the keys are not tactile enough. My laptop is a Lenovo X-Series with a touch-stick only. The key to be able to work efficiently with the touch-stick is to take the time to fine tune the sensitivity and to make sure that you can scroll with it in all your application. See the ThinkWiki website to learn how to do that under GNU/Linux.
But I have to be honest, finding a new keyboard is not what allowed me to move away from the wrist brace. It was only a minor part in a greater program to get my wrists back into shape. Your first goal should be to strengthen your wrists. Your physiotherapist probably recommended you some exercises and you have to do then. After a long and painful recovery doing wrist curls with barbels, I started doing rock climbing and this is probably the most effective way that I have to stay away from the wrist brace. If you go that route, be careful because the potential for injuries is very real if you try to do all the fun moves. Dynos and crimpers are not for you until you move away from the wrist braces but rock climbing will still be much more entertaining than wrist curls so you're more likely to keep a regular training schedule all year long, even when you don't feel the pain.
If your are not seeing a health professional, get off Slashdot and book an appointment with one immediately. Slashdot will recommend gadgets is this is not what you need. Good luck with your quest. I trust that you too can enjoy computing once again.
Go and meet people, give a talk at a local user group. At Montréal-Python, we love when people present their personal projects. These are usually very interesting presentations because you know the code very well and you can answer deep technical questions.
With Konqueror, I set my flash viewer to/bin/true. That way I avoid the annoying pop-ups that ask me if I want to save to disk or to install a viewer. I also avoid the annoying flash content but I unfortunately lead some clueless webmasters into believing that I'm "flash enabled".
The proper solution is headphones with good isolation. You can go with closed cans or in-ear monitor but avoid the buds that came with you player at all cost. When you have good isolation, you don't need to crank the volume so much in order to ear your music properly and to cover the annoying noises and conversations around you.
Noise cancellation is good for constant humming sounds like jet engine and railroad generated vibrations but they suck terribly with human voice which is the leading factor that breaks concentration. For usage outside of planes and trains, in-ear monitor and closed cans with a good isolation rating are a much safer bet.
Certainly any laptop with Atheros wireless, Intel graphics and sound is going to work nicely.
I run gNewSense 2.0 on a Thinkpad X61. Video (Intel GM965) is accelerated in 2D but don't expect any 3D since GLX is non-free. The buit-in Atheros (5424) works with open access points if I build the latest wireless compat release but I've had no luck with WEP and WPA. I use a Zydas USB dongle which works fine but won't come back from suspend. Otherwise, everything I can think of is fully functional.
The big advantage to them doing 1 film every 3-4 years is they might put a bit more thought into the script, and not churn out the same load of cheap gags and unorigional shit all the time.
They already made movies with all the good stories in the public domain. Now that they killed the public domain, we have to look at endless series of remakes of those stories.
We drill a hole through the case and the platers. It takes only 30 seconds per drive: faster than a single pass of dd with/dev/zero and it works for drives with dead controllers. Don't wipe then with several passes of random data; you have better thinks to do with your time.
Do not buy anything, except binoculars and a star finder, before you go it a starry night party and try a few instruments. Good binoculars will cost 20$ to 100$, something like 7x50 to 10x50 will be perfect. You don't need Celestron or Bushnell binoculars; any no-name brand will do as long as you have a 50mm apertume.
You are right but you fail to explain it in words that all can grasp. Think of raisin bread dough. This is the initial singularity; infinitely dense dough. The Big Bag, is the heating of said dough. As the raisin bread raises, all raisins will get farther from each others, and you won't find a point of radiation because there is none.
I just fail to see what is inspiring in launching a cheap flashlight handle in the great void. Launch the ratchet used by Rutan or take the solemn moment of the light saber throw to have an astronaut read an essay on _his_ quest for science instead. I want to hear about this real space explorer, not about a cheesy fictional hero from an over hyped space opera.
Sure, why not? Maybe they are looking for exclusivity or it just feels nice to have the physical DVD to put in one's collection. If you appreciate the work of an artist and that you can afford supporting him (most likely her in this case), it makes sense to do so. I could be wrong but I assume that most people who buy porn know where to find it for free. It's just easier and faster to deal with the supplier directly. Don't forget that Firefox users are techno geeks with high paying jobs, they can afford it.
Maybe many readers don't block ads. I don't. I don't install flash and I disable pop-ups and animated GIFs. With this setup, ads are not annoying. If I can give a website that I like a few cents just by loading an image, sure! Why not? It's a form of micro payments and there is nothing wrong with it.
The original idea was to focus on role playing. You can have more realistic systems but in the end, if you spend more times on the technical size of the system than on acting, you lose. Live Vampire's rock paper scissor is good enough if you have good player. I've had my best games with it.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean your regular kind of mix and spread goo, I mean the kind of high tech stuff that NASA must have invented and probably use to glue the tiles in the first place.
Can't they plug the hole with some kind of high-tech epoxy goo? I'm sure that avoiding the extra air turbulence that this hole will generate can't hurt.
Push images with rsync and back those up. Rsync will only send what has changed so you can push the updates from a crappy link once you have seeded the image from your lan. You could launch the backup only if the IP match a given pattern; you probably don't want to push a backup from a hotel room.
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This is a very good review, Ahmed. Thanks for sharing!
I used to suffer from a very acute case of RSI, requiring wearing a wrist brace and seeing a physiotherapist twice a week for more than a year. As a programmer, I seriously considered finding a new career but thankfully, I have recovered. Of course, recovery is relative here and as you know, you never come back to your college days when you could abuse your writs with all nighters after all nighters, you are always as risk. In my case, I can type without wrist braces for 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, and feel no pain. I do that on a full size keyboard at a desk; I can type with a laptop on my lap but only for a few hours before I am reminded that this is wrong.
One thing that really helped me was to get rid of the mouse. My main setup is a Unicomp EnduraPro keyboard with a touch-stick. A touch-stick is not as fast and as accurate as a mouse but the touch-stick is right there on the home row and it's easy to use with either hand to you don't put all the strain on the same hand all the time. I tried the Lenovo UltraNav keyboard but I don't like its cramped layout and I fell that the keys are not tactile enough. My laptop is a Lenovo X-Series with a touch-stick only. The key to be able to work efficiently with the touch-stick is to take the time to fine tune the sensitivity and to make sure that you can scroll with it in all your application. See the ThinkWiki website to learn how to do that under GNU/Linux.
But I have to be honest, finding a new keyboard is not what allowed me to move away from the wrist brace. It was only a minor part in a greater program to get my wrists back into shape. Your first goal should be to strengthen your wrists. Your physiotherapist probably recommended you some exercises and you have to do then. After a long and painful recovery doing wrist curls with barbels, I started doing rock climbing and this is probably the most effective way that I have to stay away from the wrist brace. If you go that route, be careful because the potential for injuries is very real if you try to do all the fun moves. Dynos and crimpers are not for you until you move away from the wrist braces but rock climbing will still be much more entertaining than wrist curls so you're more likely to keep a regular training schedule all year long, even when you don't feel the pain.
If your are not seeing a health professional, get off Slashdot and book an appointment with one immediately. Slashdot will recommend gadgets is this is not what you need. Good luck with your quest. I trust that you too can enjoy computing once again.
Go and meet people, give a talk at a local user group. At Montréal-Python, we love when people present their personal projects. These are usually very interesting presentations because you know the code very well and you can answer deep technical questions.
With Konqueror, I set my flash viewer to /bin/true. That way I avoid the annoying pop-ups that ask me if I want to save to disk or to install a viewer. I also avoid the annoying flash content but I unfortunately lead some clueless webmasters into believing that I'm "flash enabled".
The proper solution is headphones with good isolation. You can go with closed cans or in-ear monitor but avoid the buds that came with you player at all cost. When you have good isolation, you don't need to crank the volume so much in order to ear your music properly and to cover the annoying noises and conversations around you.
The correct URL of the COPE study is:
http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ie/cope/index_e.html
Noise cancellation is good for constant humming sounds like jet engine and railroad generated vibrations but they suck terribly with human voice which is the leading factor that breaks concentration. For usage outside of planes and trains, in-ear monitor and closed cans with a good isolation rating are a much safer bet.
I run gNewSense 2.0 on a Thinkpad X61. Video (Intel GM965) is accelerated in 2D but don't expect any 3D since GLX is non-free. The buit-in Atheros (5424) works with open access points if I build the latest wireless compat release but I've had no luck with WEP and WPA. I use a Zydas USB dongle which works fine but won't come back from suspend. Otherwise, everything I can think of is fully functional.
I just received a Unicomp Endurapro: the Customizer with an additional pointer stick. I love it!
Try the Colemak layout and enjoy caps-lock as an alternate backspace.
They already made movies with all the good stories in the public domain. Now that they killed the public domain, we have to look at endless series of remakes of those stories.
We drill a hole through the case and the platers. It takes only 30 seconds per drive: faster than a single pass of dd with /dev/zero and it works for drives with dead controllers. Don't wipe then with several passes of random data; you have better thinks to do with your time.
Then you need another convenient script that uses wget.
Do not buy anything, except binoculars and a star finder, before you go it a starry night party and try a few instruments. Good binoculars will cost 20$ to 100$, something like 7x50 to 10x50 will be perfect. You don't need Celestron or Bushnell binoculars; any no-name brand will do as long as you have a 50mm apertume.
You are right but you fail to explain it in words that all can grasp. Think of raisin bread dough. This is the initial singularity; infinitely dense dough. The Big Bag, is the heating of said dough. As the raisin bread raises, all raisins will get farther from each others, and you won't find a point of radiation because there is none.
I just fail to see what is inspiring in launching a cheap flashlight handle in the great void. Launch the ratchet used by Rutan or take the solemn moment of the light saber throw to have an astronaut read an essay on _his_ quest for science instead. I want to hear about this real space explorer, not about a cheesy fictional hero from an over hyped space opera.
Because MBNA gives so much money to other causes that are detrimental to freedom or information.
Sure, why not? Maybe they are looking for exclusivity or it just feels nice to have the physical DVD to put in one's collection. If you appreciate the work of an artist and that you can afford supporting him (most likely her in this case), it makes sense to do so. I could be wrong but I assume that most people who buy porn know where to find it for free. It's just easier and faster to deal with the supplier directly. Don't forget that Firefox users are techno geeks with high paying jobs, they can afford it.
Maybe many readers don't block ads. I don't. I don't install flash and I disable pop-ups and animated GIFs. With this setup, ads are not annoying. If I can give a website that I like a few cents just by loading an image, sure! Why not? It's a form of micro payments and there is nothing wrong with it.
The original idea was to focus on role playing. You can have more realistic systems but in the end, if you spend more times on the technical size of the system than on acting, you lose. Live Vampire's rock paper scissor is good enough if you have good player. I've had my best games with it.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean your regular kind of mix and spread goo, I mean the kind of high tech stuff that NASA must have invented and probably use to glue the tiles in the first place.
Can't they plug the hole with some kind of high-tech epoxy goo? I'm sure that avoiding the extra air turbulence that this hole will generate can't hurt.
Push images with rsync and back those up. Rsync will only send what has changed so you can push the updates from a crappy link once you have seeded the image from your lan. You could launch the backup only if the IP match a given pattern; you probably don't want to push a backup from a hotel room.