Almost enough working body parts among us to make up one complete geek...
Many years ago a colleague at IBM suffered arthritis. Her solution:
- lower the desk to the right working height
- cut a foam block for a forearm rest
- turn up sensitivity on the mouse so a tiny movement crossed the screen
(fine motor control was not an issue in her case)
- changed fingers to third and fourth for left and right mouse buttons as
they suffered less pain than the index finger
then take regular breaks with relaxation exercises so as not to get fixed in
one position.
A greater wizard with MS-Project I have yet to see!
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Rgds
RC
Robin Catling
Full Circle Podcast
On 27 September 2011 13:35, Paul Tansom <paul@???> wrote:
> ** Jacqui Caren-home <jacqui.caren@???> [2011-09-27 10:43]:
> > On 27/09/2011 09:41, Victor Churchill wrote:
> > >Got a Logitech Marble this year when I doubled up the systems on my
> > >desktop (and no I don't want a KVM switch ;-) mainly because of its
> >
> > Question - does anyone know of a dual head KVM that is not silly money.
> ** end quote [Jacqui Caren-home]
>
> It depends on what you class as silly money. I have one of these Belkin
> units
> [1]. I can't remember how much it cost, but I've had it a while and when I
> bought it there wasn't the number of very cheap ones around (and I had some
> discount vouchers which helped!).
>
> The main downside is that it is VGA and not DVI. There were a few quirks
> when I
> set it up due to the fact that I was using a wireless keyboard and mouse
> set,
> so only needed one of the two ports, and oddly for USB it mattered which
> you
> used (iirc it was the mouse one). I've since had more than enough of
> wireless
> and the rate at which it eats batteries so use wired now (I also use a
> curved
> keyboard and those are silly money in wireless). I currently use the
> keyboard
> in one of the standard USB ports no the keyboard one, since it doesn't
> recognise the make/model (presumably with the KVM providing its own info to
> ensure it is always present), which cause a few issues in my Windows boot.
>
> I don't think there's much around in deal head KVMs now, this was about the
> only one around in a reasonably sensible price bracket when I got mine.
> With
> large wide screen monitors the standard now I think dual screen is less
> popular. Certainly the screen space to power consumption ratio is much
> better
> with a single monitor.
>
> [1]
> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-Omniview-Soho-4-Port-Switch/dp/B0006374ZU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317126274&sr=8-1
> £119.95 in Amazon, but I've not shopped around.
>
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