[Gllug] RSI: Was VACANCY: Site Reliability Engineering

[Tim Porter]

Talking of RSI, does anyone use any alternative keyboard layouts? How do
you find them?

I've just started using the Dvorak layout. Its meant to be faster to
type on but I've only been doing it about ten days and so I'm not up to
speed yet, I can touch type little bits but not much. The first things I
touch typed were "lol" and "ls -l" !

Typing speed is only a secondary concern however, mainly I'm thinking
about RSI and general comfort, I can definitely say that it is more
comfortable for me to type with it. I used to do a data entry job where
it was advantageous to go as fast as possible, I used to get nasty
shooting pains in my wrists and up my forearms (I mean debilitatingly
nasty at times), thankfully I don't do that job anymore but I worry that
in my later years (I'm only 23 now) they will resurface and prevent me
using a computer, which would be pretty devastating.

I've converted my laptop and a spare keyboard I have which I take to
work. Both linux (my laptop) and windows (work) are really easy to
reconfigure for it. Instead of ripping the keys out of a keyboard and
rearranging them (its not always so easy) I got some Dvorak conversion
stickers off ebay for a few quid.

If you can stomach learning to type again (it bring back memories if
nothing else) then I'd definitely recommend it. 

Tim.

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:40 +0000, - Tethys wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jose Luis Martinez
> <jjllmmss at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> >> The one I found best was a pistol grip style mouse, the name of
> >> which escapes me right now. Think of a Quickshot II joystick fixed in
> >> the vertical position with the suckers removed and replaced by an
> >> optical mouse mechanism, and you'll get the idea.
> >>
> >> Tet
> >
> > This one?
> >
> > http://store.ergocube.com/3mermous.html
> 
> Yep. Either that or one very similar to it.
> 
> Tet
> 
> -- 
> The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to
> understand the exponential function -- Albert Bartlett

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