>> The hardest part was operating the mouse with its axies transposed
> 
> Couldn't you just rotate the mouse to match? It might be a bit awkward 
> to hold at 90 degrees, but at least it should be easy to control.

Hmm, would that actually work? And how do you press the buttons?

Anyway, it's not _that_ hard to do this. (Ever played a flight simulator 
where the Y control is inverted?)

>> the user thought I was God-like for pulling that off! ;-)
> 
> Hehe, reminds me of when I had to download and reinstall the graphics 
> card driver on a Japanese laptop.  I managed to locate and download the 
> driver from a Japanese website, uninstall the old one and put the new 
> one on there, all without being able to read a single word of Japanese.  
> The owner of the laptop was suitably impressed that I could apparently 
> "translate" phrases like "do you want to restart now?" and "are the new 
> display settings ok? if not will revert back in 15." :-)

Hee... I did this with a machine that was running a German copy of 
Windows 3.11. (This was in 2006 by the way...!) I can't remember what I 
was called in to do - probably just install the right language files - 
but I succeeded at any rate.

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