From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 5 10:33: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B320A1550B for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:32:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-248.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.248]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA22790; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 12:32:46 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37A9CABE.28935243@airnet.net> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 12:32:46 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: crh@outpost.co.nz Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD cures RSI References: <19990804232458.E2ED114DCD@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Craig Harding wrote: > > Kris Kirby wrote: > > > I can't touch type that well, but I'd like to think I'm doing ok. I > > think I need to spend some time with kp (from the ports collection). > > The really handy thing about touch typing (apart from all the > obviously handy things like being able to type really fast) is that a > lot of the common phrases and words you use become patterned into > muscle memory. This came in very useful the time I realised I'd > forgotten the password to a system I hadn't used in several months. I > just ran briskly through the login procedure and my fingers > remembered the password for me. I've experienced this too. Typing passwords (or logging in) becomes a reflex, not a totally conscious behavior. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message