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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 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

    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

    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?

    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

    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

    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...