scott wrote:
>> 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.
> 
>> 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." :-)
> 
> 

I once installed the German version of Windows ME on a computer with a 
French keyboard.  I've never used ME before or since.  Not as bad as 
Japanese, but still, kinda crazy with the different position of some 
keys in each language.  BTW, I don't know French or German.


Tom

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