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Thread ID: 29399	2003-01-18 13:58:00	DO YOU USE A COMPUTER ON AVERAGE PER DAY?	sc0ut (2899)	Press F1

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115173	2003-01-19 15:54:00	i found grabbing a wireless keyboard and mouse is a good way to make some distance between you and your monitor, i found this helps alot with sore eyes. Moving every hour or so the thing you've got to look out for is RSI in you fingers from typing AND clicking oh and the title of the post was meant to be """HOW OFTEN""""DO YOU USE A COMPUTER ON AVERAGE PER DAY? and soz about the caps here's a cool site (over priced) but cool www.homeworkingsolutions.co.uk	sc0ut (2899)
115174	2003-01-20 00:16:00	!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY eyes has gone so bad since my post on "something funnie with my eyes" and my mum wont take me to see an eye doctor cause she said "where the hell is an eye doctor" **** **** **** f**k is there an program that can remind me to take breaks when im on the computer? its hard to remember to take breaks Tim	TiM©:*) (977)
115175	2003-01-20 03:22:00	Tim: oi !!! no bad language thank you! X-( Look in the yellow pages for Optometrists and get your mum to take you to one. They're not cheap though, so it might be better to go to a normal doctor first and see if they can arrange something through the Health System. There are programs that can remind you to take breaks when you're on the computer - one used to be available on a NZ site but I've forgotten which one. If I remember I will post the link. Look after your eyes Tim!!	Susan B (19)
115176	2003-01-20 03:48:00	I been to a normal doctor last year and she couldnt find anything wrong with my eyes(waste of $20.00) i'll get my mum to take me to the doctor again and arrange to ??????? see a cheapper optometrist? Im angry at my mum, it looks like she doesnt even care, that *****	TiM©:*) (977)
115177	2003-01-20 05:41:00	Tim, It is quite possible you have a common complaint that really cant be fixed by an optomitrist. I also have it, yet at 40 i still have perfect vision, but if i am not careful i get eyestrain. It is to do with the muscles in the eye being firmly held so the lens focuses at just one distance for a long time. This illiminated me watching TV or reading for long periods of time in my teens, it became a problem later sometimes when i drove long distances. To compare, hold your arm out straight without support and dead still for a few minutes. You will start to feel discomfort, yet a few minutes of moving and carrying things or whatever is unlikely to cause any probem. The solution is all to be with keeping the muscles that focus active, as stuck in one focus is much more stressful than variation. This can only be acheived by distraction. Here in the office i sit with my back to the wall so that when i look up i look at the most distant wall of a long room. To my left i usually have Vanessa, on another desk, running the seti screen saver, which is red and blue and purple, and catches my eye. My dog sits on the couch to my left, she is very lazy but her accational movement also catches my eye, and helps me shift focus from time to time. When i drive i pick up a hitchhiker if i have no passengers, the accational glance during conversation provides me distraction from staring at infinity constantly. Otherwise i try to remember to glance at the dashboard every couple of minutes. Another factor is fatigue... staring at a screen when your entire body is tired WILL strain my eyes. If you have had an eye test and things seem OK, then you probably just have the same annoyance that i put up with. You can work around it. .Clueless	Clueless (181)
115178	2003-01-20 06:22:00	Don't diss your mum, even if you think she deserves it, Tim. You might discover she's OK if you don't give her a hard time. See another optometrist if you think you need to, and if your family is open to natural products, I can suggest Euphrasia homeopathic eye drops and perhaps a supplement specifically for eyes - Billberry is excellent. Follow the instructions but you can't OD on either and you will notice a difference. I use a PC 40-50 hours per week with working from home and going out to the off-ice although it can vary over that due to work-intensive times. It aint natural to spend that much time in front of a screen and manipulate keyboard with digits for that many hours of the week so remember there's a big wide world out there that also welcomes your input. Be seeing you! Dyan	Dyan (2333)
115179	2003-01-20 12:43:00	You could always go here too. It will remind you to log off after whatever you set it for. You have to take the Ergonomic break every so often. www.sarna.net Re your "Mum":- She is probably just trying to help but finances may not allow this to happen re your eyes. If I had talked to my "Mum" the way you talked to us then DAD would have shot me. DAD isn't around now but I learn't that you don't disrespect your Mum. My Mum is still around. She is 85 and I'm 60. My Mum is into Email as am I, my Brother and my Sister	Elephant (599)
115180	2003-01-21 00:15:00	I didnt mean to disrespect my mum, i was angry then, im sorry now. any way, my mum is goin to take me to see our familly doctor and then we are goin to see an eye doctor :*) Tim	TiM©:*) (977)
115181	2003-01-21 04:11:00	Thanks elephant!!!!!!!! watch dog is great, im limitting mytime on my comp to 2 hours a day (too bad i know the admin pass) but it doesnt remind me to take breaks every 5 mins!! do you know any programs that can remind me to take breaks? Tim	TiM©:*) (977)
115182	2003-01-24 08:37:00	> persony i suppose i uses one about 10 hours a day > cos i work with them, study with them and play on > them Sorry to hear you play with them, I must use mine a good few hours each night, once more now I have Mozilla, Open Office, and can print with Linux, hardly boot to windoze now, I think last week I forced myself to try it out, and download AVG, update, not sure why, I just like seeing no more fatal exceptions, no more " hot headed computer switch offs " but then I go to work and there I say to the computer " ^$##^*(()%*& " and sometimes even see stars in my eyes as I say it (please DON'T ask what " ^$##^*(()%*& " is.) Cheers from Eric	E.ric (351)
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