Re: OT: Safe Type (was Re: DVORAK)

2005-06-08 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:53:23PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: How does the safe type feel for you? As I say, it's the only way I can type comfortably for longer than an hour or so. I've used many other keyboards - plain flat ones, low-end ergonomic ones and high-end ergonomic ones like the

Re: OT: Safe Type (was Re: DVORAK)

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 09:43 -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: --snip-- The number pad is cumbersome. I'm an emacs guy, so I rarely use the arrow keys anyway, but when I have to use them, it's a PITA. However, that was easily solved for me by buying a USB number pad; it works fine with X, and it even

OT: Safe Type (was Re: DVORAK)

2005-06-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 08:43 -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: --snip-- Dunno. I use a Safeytpe; any keyboard that requires me to rotate my hands even semi-flat exacerbates the tendinitis to the point where I can't type after an hour or two. With a Safetype, I can type all day, but you pretty much