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    Thumb click Mouse 1 - Ergonomic

    Thanks for pointer. I saw Evoluent in the Dogpile searches, but I didn't notice the thumb button. I'm not sure the vertical "handshake" position is better than the palm-down position. When I toss my hand onto the table, it lands palm down. Has anyone tried the Evoluent?
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    Thumb click Mouse 1 - Ergonomic

    After 27 years of clicking Mouse 1, my index finger is rebelling. My quack says it's arthritis, and advises using a mouse with a thumb-clickable Mouse 1. I've seen mouses with nicely contoured thumb cradles on the side, but no button therein. Does anyone know of a mouse with a...
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    Tape drive capstan rubber friction wheel gunk and goo

    I would never have thought of that! (Mayb e I can pawn the PS/2...) Regards, Bob
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    Tape drive capstan rubber friction wheel gunk and goo

    I resurrected my IBM PS/2-60 and decided to read one of my tapes on the Irwin tape drive. I didn't know the capstan uses a short-lived rubber as a friction surface, and sure enough it was muck. After eleven years of resting in the dark, the rubber had converted itself into black goo. The...
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    AA rechargeable batteries, battery life

    Actually, I'm living in the sixties. I went up to 2001 and bought a Kodak DX3600. It's a nice little machine. I'm using batteries I bought in a supermarket a couple of years ago (2005), but the camera gets very little juice from them. I came forward to 2007 to ask in this group. Even the...
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    AA rechargeable batteries, battery life

    I want a camera that runs well using typical rechargeable AA batteries, probably NiCad. These things provide 1.2V, so a camera that uses two batteries has to run on 2.4V as well as it runs on the 3V from non-rechargeable batteries. Is there a camera that runs well using externally...
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    Acronis TrueImage 10 vs "E00070020 The image archive is corrupted"

    A year ago, there was a series of posts on Wilders about "E00070020 The image archive is corrupted". And a review from December 2006 at Compusa says "Appears to work without a hitch, until you verify the integrity of the image. 90% of the images fail verification, showing error E00070020"...
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    Dual-port memory

    The link in Soviet's reply gives good info. I read it quickly, so I might have missed any mention of using dual-port memory in high datarate applications. Also, Maxim talks about multiplexing, to keep pin count down - a concession to cost. For serious performance, you add pins.
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    Dual-port memory

    Does anyone know of systems built with dual-port memory? I haven't hunted very far, but I nosed around the Dell website. They boast about dual-channel memory, but do not mention dual-port. Regards, Bob
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    Stiffer mouse button 2?

    My mouse is a Dell. I don't know the model. No doubt it's some sort of generic gadget. Of course there's no adjustable spring or anything. (Re: "Just watch what you're doing." Don't people get dizzy doing that?)
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    Stiffer mouse button 2?

    When I move my hand from the keyboard to the mouse, I don't watch what I'm doing, I just slap the mouse. So I often click the scroll wheel without noticing. In the text editor I use, this inserts text at the mouse pointer's location. The scroll wheel's resistance is only the spring in the...
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    Keyboards, key mapping, etc.?

    I have a Dell keyboard (at work) with a bunch of little buttons along the top edge, a set of buttons marked with audio-player icons, and a little knob. I use emacs on Linux (Redhat 9), and I'd like to get emacs to recognize the keys, but I have no idea how to make the keys known. This...
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    Nero 6.6 "Format/Prepare Rewritable DVD" missing

    Turns out I needed to install InCD. The Nero documentation mentions InCD, but does not explain its role in life. And of course, at run time, the program didn't say anything about needing InCD. Don't these people know what "User Friendly" means? Tsk. Anyhow, my StartSmart has nice...
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    Nero 6.6 "Format/Prepare Rewritable DVD" missing

    I'm pretty sure I mean more than erase. I gather "quick erase" means delete file entries, and full erase means overwrite file data. I don't know specifically what "format" means for a DVD. On hard disks, it used to mean to write timing tracks, sector flags, and whatever else the drive...
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    Nero 6.6 "Format/Prepare Rewritable DVD" missing

    In the Nero 6 Ultra Edition Quickstart Guide, page 24E, Section 4.1, the picture shows an entry for "Format/Prepare Rewritable CD" and one for "Format/Prepare Rewritable DVD". My copy of the program doesn't show these. (I emailed the Nero people, but do these vendors ever respond?)...
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    Diagnostices for parallel port?

    Does anyone know a diagnostic that will test all functions of a parallel port? Tufftest talks a good game on their website, but they do not explicitly say they test everything the port can do. Jay Lowe wrote a manual for Parallel, Parallel Technologies' freeware tool, back in 1993 that...
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    Error 578 when trying to update profile

    Darn. I meant to say that when I tried to go to profile again, I received a message that the profile page is available only if logged in. To get into the profile page again, I logged out and logged in again.
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    Error 578 when trying to update profile

    I tried to change my email address. Received message Error 578. When I clicked on the Profile button again, instead of going to the profile page, I received a message about not having permission to update this forum. (I was trying to go to profile, not update a forum; I wasn't in a forum.)
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    Raw bit-image disk backup, with minimal features

    Sorry for yet another disk backup topic, but I think this differs from the others I found. Also, hunting worldwide with Google gave me no clear answer. I'm looking for full, raw disk backup, with minimum features. I think Ghost etc. do not do what I want. Everything I read about them...
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    Norton Ghost 9: Any gotchas?

    I'm using Ghost 9 on Windows XP. So far, I've only backed up; I haven't tried to restore. When I installed, the program told me my machine didn't have enough memory. I started the restore program, and it told me Windows might not work, because of insufficient memory. The machine has 256MB...