On Fri, 21 May 2010 20:47:10 -0700, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > anyway, this is thanks and an ACK mostly to polyt and roland. i > will get down and find the usb port, but if i did it now i'd > never be able to haul myself back up. they would find my > bleached bones beside my 'puter, crouched and looking for that > usb slot.
Oh, I had a similar problem, too: USB slot only on the back of the PC, hard to reach, and that's why uncomfortable and furthermore unusable. My solution was to get an USB cable USB-A plug to USB-A socket, quite simple, and have the USB socket (now on wire) directly on the desk. If you recognize you often need more than one USB slot, you usually would decide to get an USB hub, also a good tool on top of the desk. One of the most comfortable solutions I've seen (and used) is to have a USB slot (ot two, usually) on the keyboard. A good example for this is the Apple keyboard, and of course the Sun USB type 7 keyboard. This way, you can also attach an USB mouse directly on the table, or have two slots for removable media (e. g. for USB sticks, USB hard disks or USB camera, or webcam, or USB steam engine). Allthough most "modern" PCs have USB slots on their front, it's still inconvenient to put them under the desk, allowing a chair or your feet to kick (and maybe break) the USB stick - I've already seen that happening LIVE. On the other hand... who wants to put ugly designed PC minitowers onto the desk? It's not that they look like an SGI Octane... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
