On 02 May 2010 16:27:09 GMT, steamer wrote:

--Well here I am again using a computer with a huge hole I've worn
in the touchpad. I'm thinking the people who engineer these things must have
girlyman hands! I've got enough of a grubby index finger, probably sintered
with metal chips by now, that I can't own a laptop for more than a few
months B4 I wear a hole in the touchpad. I've figured out that the only
reason the crummy plastic cover over the metal beneath is there is to
prevent moisture from screwing up the pointer 'resolution' so what I've been
doing is cutting the cover completely off, then laying down a couple of
strips of electrical tape. Trouble is: the feel is a little different and
not as slippery.
--Curious to know: has anyone come up with a better fix??


Yes.

Simply use a decent quality mouse and **** the touchpad

Gunner

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno