Coding Horror with a keyboard?
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http://www.comfortkeyboard.com/keyboards_comfort.html
That looks pretty neat, and certainly very adjustable. I don't (ergonomically) get why they've stuck with row-staggered design, though. After all, if you're building a high-end, high-cost item that doesn't look like a "normal" keyboard anyway, why not go column staggered at the same time?
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Nope but somehow I do not have the dexterity in my left middle and right index to use them. I do not know but with all ten I have the feeling that I lose about 20% in speed and even more in accuracy.
Edit: And I use a huge variety of keyboard: 3 different laptops, approx 4 different types of keyboard in the Lab. A standard university PC and a workstation. So I think I have something like 7 different keyboards. So every once in awhile I am shifted by one key. Now come to think of it I should write a small script to correct for this.
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Now come to think of it I should write a small script to correct for this.
Just move the keyboard over slightly on your desk
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Cost about $400
For that kind of money, you'd think they'd afford a better copywriter for the site...
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The model M is only 2KRO though and prone to internal damage. The new stuff isn't also what it used to be as I heard that the production machinery is wearing out.
I actually managed to inadvertently break my Unicomp Model M. I accidentally damaged a spring when cleaning it, and tried to dismantle the thing to replace the spring assembly from another key.Turned out they use much thinner plastic for the case, much thinner steel backplate, and they fucking glue that backplate to the bottom with double-sided adhesive tape!
I purchased a used Model M (the 122-key variety) off a local e-auction. Because fuck Unicomp.
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I would have thought it obvious I was talking about armed resistance. Twat.
Who the fuck types with their elbows? Oh, right.
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I would also be very much interested in how that works.
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Both mice and keyboards send a Basic Assurance Test (BAT) return code of 0xaa or 0xfc (failure) on startup, mice only then send a device address byte (usually zero, but nonstandard mice might send something else).
So if you get a device address directly after the BAT code, you're talking to a rodent. Even though bats aren't really rodents.
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And they made an insane keyboard like that still use membrane.
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Well, yeah. Maltron and Kinesis both use Cherry (with, IIRC, a choice of switch type). Matias' Ergo Pro, which is closer in design, being a split row-staggered board, uses Alps clone switches built by Matias. All of these are different" looking boards that manage to be at least more or less market successful. Cheaping out on the switches is all about bottom line.
Still, while rubber domes aren't all that good overall, frankly I'd rather type on an MS4K or Goldtouch, both of which are "ergo" row-staggered rubber dome, than on a "Truly Ergonomic" with Cherry clones - its debouncing is so bad that it misses more keypresses than it registers. Well, not quite, but that's how it feels. Shame, because the layout is pretty bloody good.
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I purchased a used Model M (the 122-key variety) off a local e-auction.
Lucky bastard, I never seem to be able to find it.
I have an Alcatel MFII, and eh... it works, but it's not stellar.
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You find some more on eBay, but shipping is a bitch.
I was lucky to find this bloke from Gdynia selling one.Protip: "IBM clicky" yields you far more results than "IBM Model M" on eBay. Same as on Allegro, if you want to buy a Thinkpad, you don't search for "Thinkpad XYZ" but for "Lenovo XYZ".
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Lucky bastard, I never seem to be able to find it.
I worked IT in a hospital, we had like 30 of them sitting on a shelf. Also found a Underwood typewriter once.
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I saw that in your LinkedIn Mr Belgium Belgium
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You have an ascii lock? mine only does digits. Or is it unicode.
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You have an ascii lock? mine only does digits. Or is it unicode.
It's only a matter of time before you can buy suitcases with emoji on the locks rather than numbers.
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is going to be the new 12345.
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suitcases with emoji on the locks rather than numbers.
It just changes how people will mnemonic-ize their combination. Instead of "Suzie's birthday" it will be "How my summer vacation went".
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Filed under:
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Well, the last face is when the person who set this luggage combo found out that she wasn't a she.
And in Texas, too!
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I actually have a demo kit of all the cherry keyswitches. For the life of me, I cannot tell the blue and brown apart. I may be deaf.
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For the life of me, I cannot tell the blue and brown apart. I may be deaf.
Or the practical difference is made up by people who only buy such keyboards for keyboardpeen.
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I'd question if they're labeled correctly then. There's a huge difference, both in noise and in feel. Browns are quiet and they don't have any tactile "bump" meaning there's nothing to feel when the actuate. Blues are noisy and also have a click you can feel right at the moment of actuation.
However, my blue keyboard doesn't actually have Cherry switches. They're from some competitor and I suppose they could be totally different.
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However, my blue keyboard doesn't actually have Cherry switches.
Well, darn, that practically invalidated the previous paragraph!
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Maybe I'm misremembering which one I cannot tell apart from blue.
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The keys will randomly fall out in order to promote good quality typing at work.
If the keys f-u-and-c are pressed, k launches into the air.
It becomes quite entertaining to watch one use the keyboard on facebook.
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Maybe I'm misremembering which one I cannot tell apart from blue.
Greens are clicky too, but you'd quickly feel it because they're quite a deal heavier.
Confusing reds and brown would make more sense though - the difference can be subtle if you just press the keys to the bottom.
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Why not purchase the Discourse keyboard?
It's free (unless you want support), and it contains not two, but three different sets of emoji glyphs, in addition to a standard Dvorak layout (NB: the keys actually display Qwerty, but it's Dvorak under the hood. No that's not configurable.)
If you're a paying customer (not a dirty communist freeloader), and you run into any problems, simply mail the unit back to us, and we'll send you the latest model as a replacement, we'll even throw in a manual explaining how it works now and how you were using it wrong, for free! (NB: models change every 2-6 weeks, subject to the whims of the designer).
True, some of the keys fall off some of the time, but who needs a left shift anyway? Seriously, use the right shift, only a developer would care about the left shift.
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Oh, and the Z key was a pain to fit in, so you'll need to use the keyboard in the other room to type that.
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Do not forget trustlevels, if you have used the keyboard for more then 5 out of the last 7 days you can use the numeric keypad.
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You forget about the little screen at the top:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81fuOEG-2lL.SL1500.jpg
Occasionally it shows messages like "It looks like you have been using this computer for 4 hours. Please let others use the computer as well".
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Or "keystrokes too similar to previous input. 502 OK"
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Do not forget trustlevels, if you have used the keyboard for more then 5 out of the last 7 days you can use the
numeric keypadsymbols.FTFY.... you know, that way untrusted people can't perform SQL injection exploits, XSS, etc.
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@Dlareg said:
Do not forget trustlevels, if you have used the keyboard for more then 5 out of the last 7 days you can use the
numeric keypadsymbols.FTFY.... you know, that way untrusted people can't perform SQL injection exploits, XSS, etc.
And the * and \ symbols come out as their MD5 versions.
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there's nothing to feel when the actuate.
That's not actually completely true. You can feel when they make contact, you just don't get the bump.
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There is also a special "RAW" mode. Which ouputs everything as a binary string.
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That would be horrible for changing passwords.
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type 120 WPM
IIRC, that was the minimum my mom had to hit to qualify as a dispatcher.
the itsy bitsy chiclet keyboards with no gap between keys and no curvature on the key
I actually like those types, mostly, since it's easy to move around fast due to the low travel and smooth landscape. Even so, I have a mechanical keyboard now and like it.
besides, would anyone on this forum be even moderately hampered by a keyboard with no labels?
I've gotten pretty good at typing with one hand, with the keyboard hidden on the keyboard shelf under my desk. Although it still takes me a few guesses to find %^&* because my brain has so far refused to remember which order they're in.
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Although it still takes me a few guesses to find %^&* because my brain has so far refused to remember which order they're in.
It's easy: B-E-L-G-...
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? That sounds mighty kinky to Engine. ...
Well, food is part of the reason, if that helps.
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food is part of the reason, if that helps.
Lol, Engine responds: Rating increased by 14%!
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found out that she wasn't a she.
I'd question if they're labeled correctly then. There's a huge difference, both in noise and in feel. Browns are quiet and they don't have any tactile "bump" meaning there's nothing to feel when the actuate. Blues are noisy and also have a click you can feel right at the moment of actuation.
lol
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@JBert said:
when typing more than 80 wps.
To be fair, very few people can type 80 words per second.I imagine that as the keyboard needing water cooling to prevent it from bursting into flames.