fedora and notebooks?
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Dec 13 21:48:37 UTC 2007
Dean S. Messing wrote:
> I took think the pad is a wee bit sensitive to the touch when I'm
> banging away at the keyboard. Sometimes my thumb will brush it and
> (at least w/in emacs) the "point" will just to where the cursor sits
> and I'm now entering text in the wrong place. Thank goodness for the
> powerful "undo" features of emacs. Solution: thumbs up!
Touchpads are misnamed; they don't require touch. There's some kind of
proximity detector involved.
>
> (I also learned to type on my mom's old Remington, with the green
> plastic keys. What a great old piece of machinery!)
Imperials were rather popular in my youth. At the bank, at certain times
of the day, we queued for the NCR full-keyboard adding machine. We
became adept at adding in our head, two columns of digits at once. I
started a week after we went to decimal currency, I have no idea how
they managed LSD.
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Cheers
John
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