Learn touch-typing. 
With regular practice, you can easily ramp up to 40 words per minute and above, in a matter of four to six weeks. This will greatly help you reduce the time you take to get your work done.
Keyboard shortcuts (make the mouse redundant)! The best part of keyboard shortcuts is just that-shortcuts! They are mighty helpful in lessening the time spent on the computer. For example, if you want to see your desktop, it makes much more sense using the [WINDOWS]+ [D] combination rather than clicking on the ‘Show Desktop’ icon in your taskbar.
Exercises
The human
body was designed to perform tasks such as farming and hunting, rather than sitting at the table and hammering away at the keyboard. So even with the best of ergonomics, you are bound to put some stress on your shoulders, neck, and wrists. The best way to tone things up is by doing some very simple exercises. These will help both stretch and strengthen the muscles that you use. Here I have focused on stretching exercises for the neck, shoulders, and the wrists because these are the parts stressed the most. While exercises go a long way in prevention and advancement of these conditions, don’t do them if you already have advanced symptoms. The best thing to do then would be to consult a surgeon.
Broadly, there are two types of exercises-stretchers and strengtheners. There are exercises for every muscle group under both categories.
Here are a few Tips That Might Help
Choose the right monitor, one that has an adjustable angle with a flat screen. Pick one that has high dot pitch, that can support high refresh rates, and has a high pixel count (To change refresh rate, right-click on the desktop and go to ‘Properties I Settings I Advanced I Monitor I Monitor setting’. 
Set the refresh rate to at least 72 and above. This will depend on your monitor, so look up the manual for the maximum refresh rate for each resolution.)
Blink frequently. Once you make a conscious effort to do this, it will soon become a habit. If you are unfortunate enough to already be suffering from dry eyes, then use simple eye-drops such as Itone.
Look away from the computer screen regularly and also try to look at distant objects every so often.
Clean the screen frequently, using a damp cloth.
Reduce the glare on your screen coming from open windows, bright lights, etc.
This Post is a part of our Ergonomic series. If you haven’t read the earlier posts click here or follow the link in the sidebar.
Some of us swear by the membrane ones, while others swear by the mechanical ones. While the mechanical ones produce a lot of noise, they are much more durable and most importantly, the latency period between keystrokes is less for the mechanical ones. This translates into less time required for doing the same amount of typing, and hence less injury!
Keyboards that claim to reduce your time by up to 20 to 30 percent are not always good. Before buying one, make sure that when you use the special ‘Cut’ or ‘Copy’ key located on one end of the keyboard, you are not moving your arms widely-this will damage the shoulder and is akin to reaching for the mouse.
The palm rest: Use the palm rest to rest your palms in-between typing spells ratherthan duringthetyping itself. If you sense using the [WINDOWS]+ [D] combination rather than clicking on the ‘Show Desktop’ icon in your taskbar.
This post is a part of our ergonomics series> if you haven’t read our previous posts click here
Where should your printer be placed? I would not recommend placing it on a lower shelf, in order to avoid injury to your back.
The mouse. I 
would say that this is the single most important thing to consider. Most workstations are constructed (to save on material) with a short keyboard tray that will accommodate not more than the length of the keyboard. This in turn forces you to place you r mouse on the desk. If your mouse and keyboard are not at the same level, it results in an ergonomic disaster!
You need to have the mouse right next to the keyboard, on the immediate right/left depending on which hand you use.This can save your shoulders a lot of trauma. While working on that Word file or chatting with someone on MSN, you suddenly need to click something on your desktop, so you reach for your mouse. If you are doing both tasks at the same time, you are causing immense damage to your shoulder because you are moving your entire arm all the way!
Today is the last post of our Windows and Linux interconnection over a network. We start from where we left last time
3 Mount –t smbfs –o username = “<username>”, password = “<password>” //<Hostname>/<Share Name> /mnt/sambashare:
This command mounts the windows share onto the Linux filesystem in the /mnt/sambashare folder. Replace this with the location where you wa nt to mount it. It is very similarto mounting a CD-ROM or floppy.
The other way of LAN browsing is using a GUI-based application that resembles Windows Network Neighborhood. The simplest way to have GUI-based LAN browsing is to use Konqueror in KDE. Just type the location in the address bar with a smb:// prefiX.
Smb://<Hostname>/<Share Name>
An authentication window will pop up to ask your username and password. Provide it and you are in. There are scores of GUI interfaces available at http://us1.samba.org/sambalGUII. Pick the one you like best. The popular ones are Webmin and Komba2. But I love Linneighborhood–it is supposedly a port of the Windows Network Neighborhood and looks exactly like the real McCoy.
Read the SAMBA documentation on the website and if that is not enough, buy a book called Using SAMBA by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown and Peter Kelly from O’Reilly Press. And of course as always, have fun.
