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| Office SU | | Date Created: Mar 29, 2005, 11:32 PM |
I just reconf'd the office in hopes of getting rid of this issue I've been having with my hand. I was having issues with the hand a few years ago but then I went out and got a wireless ergonomic keyboard and mouse. The problem went away. Actually the trick is the ergonomic keyboard and switching off mouses every few days or so - I have three really nice ones that I like to switch off with...
When I got this Powerbook I just kinda put the keyboard and mouse away cause I was so mobile for the first few months that I didn't need them. A month or so ago I was at a show and suddenly I could not grab anything - not that it hurt that bad, but for someone who usually has a grip you can not break, to suddenly not be able to keep my grip on anything is a little out of the ordinary. I baby'd the hand for a few days and my grip just came back on it's own. The other day during the strike I noticed it again while unloading speakers (not the most opportune time to find you have no grip)...
So today I spent the day adding all my peripherals and hubs together to get all my different mice and keyboards and such working with my laptop - so when I'm home it can act as a desktop. It's a nice setup. I have an extra monitor directly next to my Powerbook so I can watch movies as I work (I've been a dual-monitor man for years now) - the laptop itself is on a stand to allow the heat to escape. The one USB cable going to my Powerbook is fed by a hub which is fed by a few more hubs which has a 250GB 7200RPM HD which I use for my video editing, my Camera and Camcorder, an HP printer/Copier/Scanner, a 5 button trackball with a scroll wheel, a logitech wireless ergonomic keyboard and wireless 4-button mouse with scroll wheel, a Fellows mouse which looks like a trigger with a ball on top, power for my speakers, and (2) 1GB Sandisk USB Thumb Drives - so I can load stuff to them and take them with me immediately...
And it's all tucked away, yet still easily accessible...
Took me the evening to figure out how I was gonna do that, but it worked itself out as I did it...
I'm hoping that switching off mouses will help with the hand - kinda need hands during shows, ya know? Got a busy month coming up...
Gonna get my wife a Mac Mini soon - gonna get the bigger and faster HD and max out the RAM. She's gonna love it. She's been using our Mom's machines - I got her parents and my parents to go Mac a few years ago - for all her multimedia stuff. So the move will be easy for her - and much less stressful for me...
I'm also going to setup my old firewall here pretty soon. My wife's parents moved to a location where they do not have anything other than dial-up, so I have the firewall I had setup for their old DSL line in my office right now just calling my name. It's just your garden variety computer with Linux (I won't tell you which one) a few NICS an a whole lot of power. It'll be nice to have a file server back in house as well - I use it as a file server as well cause it has a huge HD, a Pentium 4 processor, and 2 GB of RAM.
I also have another computer in here that I use for testing different OS's - VMWare is an awesome thing - I have 12 different OS's on one computer. I can test anything on any platform - it also allows me the freedom to go crazy and see how good these OS's are in different circumstances under different conditions. If I kill it, I can just delete it, and reload it again (and it doesn't hurt anything)... |
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