On 22Jan2007 12:01, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | >> | I've got a Dell 6400 / E1505 laptop. The great engineers at Dell put | >> | the touchpad so close to the keyboard that I'm hitting it every five | >> | minutes by mistake. Is there and _easy_ way to enable/disable it? Like | >> | a keyboard shortcut, hardware button, or panel applet (KDE)? | >> | >> On ThinkPads I turn this off in the BIOS settings. Maybe you can do this | >> on your Dell. | | That would not work as I must reenable it to mouse around. Ah. Thinkpads have The Nipple. (I like it so much that I went to some effort to buy a TrackPoint keyboard for the home compute room - a normal external keyboard with buttons and a mouse nipple.) | (What is | the correct verb in English?) Probably there isn't one. "mouse around" is increasingly common usage though. "Verb"ing nouns is a recent bad habit spreading through the language. "to have a mouse device"? It's correct English, but feels cumbersome. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ English is a living language, but simple illiteracy is no basis for linguistic evolution. - Dwight MacDonald
