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- From: elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott)
- Subject: Re: The Invisible Enemy
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.045359.1200@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
- References: <24271@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:53:59 GMT
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- In article <24271@castle.ed.ac.uk> egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page) writes:
- >
- >PartingPeeve; This is one that has pissed me off for ages. Every time
- >I logon/logoff in fact. I am a good touch typist. Why is it that every
- >time I logon it takes 5 minutes and 15 different spellings? Ditto when
- >I logoff.
- >
- I have *exactly* the same problem. I think it's because I have typed the
- desired word so often that I basically try to hit all the keys simultaneously.
- So "logout" turns into something like "lgouto"
-
- TypingPeeve: When I was an undergrad, I worked in the student computer labs
- helping people who asked dumb questions. It was awful when I went to help
- someone at their computer/terminal and had them type something in, only to
- find that they couldn't type at all.
-
- Me: Type in "watfor assign1".
-
- Them: <peck> (pause) <peck> <peck> (pause) (pause) <peck>
-
- AAARRRRGGGHH!!!! It was enough to make me want to push them out of the
- chair and type it in myself. I can't imaging how people like this make
- it through college. Writing papers must be sheer hell for them.
-
-
- Alex Elliott
- The Lemming.
- elliott@minerva.cs.yale.edu
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