People with ergonomic keyboards, are they all cnuts?

[VectraMan]

I used to work with a smelly French person (not being racist, she really was), and she'd set the keyboard into French mode, which has Q and A reversed amongst other things.

I also use my mouse with my left hand. That confuses people.

[BoredBloke]

"They're also the same people who create some sort of weird macro that only they understand and then expect me to tell them what they have done wrong when it goes tits up."

Oh you mean me then!

I use a real mouse that confuses the feck out of everybody - not least the mouse. Doesn't seem to do much when I click either of his ears. I know it's a he as I use him as a pointer in presentations.

[Muttley08]

From my experience they are, and I really struggle to use the dam things.

Agreed - trying to show us how clever they are by having a freaky keyboard.

[Churchill]

From my experience they are, and I really struggle to use the dam things.

No, they're "Special"...

We've got one her who has the ergo keyboard and a kneely chair. He's very ******* "Special" indeed!

Anyway, the fecker is leaving so good riddance...

[NickFitz]

A few years ago, interviewing at BBC News Online (as it then was), they sat me at a machine with an ergonomic keyboard for a coding test. Confused the heck out of me, trying to get this exercise done in 10 minutes with all the keys scattered about the desk, as it felt.

Got the gig and mentioned to them the hassle it had given me; they said "Yeah, maybe we shouldn't sit people at that one; we'd never really thought about it before."

[DBA_bloke]

Does anyone sell computer mice with real mouse pelts glued on? Just an idle, but potentially interesting, post-lunch musing.

[BoredBloke]

No but I can do you a plastic mouse with real mouse bits inside......Oh hang on, I could combine the two there

[NickFitz]

Does anyone sell computer mice with real mouse pelts glued on? Just an idle, but potentially interesting, post-lunch musing.

Dunno, but here are instructions on making your own...

[DBA_bloke]

Dunno, but here are instructions on making your own...

Thanks! Pet shop, here I come!

[BoredBloke]

My brother was once employed in Ireland to give basic computer lessons. On guy on the course complained that his mouse was hard to use. He had it upside down and was trying to use it like a trackball