How would a person tern of that padmouse thing? My laptop had both the stick and the pad, and I got rid of the stick but not the pad. The stick used to be right in the middle of the keyboard where I might hit it while typing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Fisher" <toby_fisher@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 1:55 AM Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > On Sun, 19 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Here's another one. > > > > Can one yet get a readable report on installed hardware under > > Windows? > > Actually, to be fair, one can, and has done for at least a couple of years > now. I've used it to do such things as compile a hardware list to ease my > transition to Linux, and also to turn off the glide mouse thingy on my > laptop, you know, the thing that uses your finger, sleeveor whatever comes > into contact with the pad as a pointer, and whose left and right buttons > (yes, I know, why two buttons?) are in just the place where they're likely > to get pressed when you least want/need. > > > As I recall, there's such a > thing, but it writes a graphical > file. Not at all as friendly as dmesg. > > I'll agree with you about dmesg, much nicer. > > Cheers. > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
