[Gllug] VACANCY: Site Reliability Engineering

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:29:42PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> Yes indeed. It's notable just how many flaws one is willing to overlook
> in exchange for a keyboard that *doesn't hurt*: e.g. I need to pick it
> up and whack a button on its underside every hour or so to reboot it,
> because its firmware progressively fubars itself until key autorepeat
> has stopped working, as has key chording (breaking e.g. shift): but
> *still* I don't care.

Maybe this is a cunning tactic to make you take a break from typing :-?

> Unfortunately World of Goo has given me a nice big flaring of RSI again
> thanks to excessive mouse use (which just shows how much I've been
> playing it: the mouse doesn't trigger RSI in me normally).

It's interesting how different RSI is in different people.  I cannot
use a mouse for more than 20 or 30 minutes.  OTOH I've used a
trackball for years with no problems.  The worst (for me) was an IBM
Thinkpad with a "nipple" [what are they called?] which caused shooting
spasms up my arms.

Rich.

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