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>> I once swapped the J & K keys on my keyboard at work.
>>
>> It was great seeing other people try to figure out what was wrong.
>
> You think that's bad? Try taking a PC, disconnecting the US keyboard and
> hooking up a UK keyboard. Confuses the **** out of people until you load
> the correct keymap.
Don't laugh, it took me about 5 minutes to find the @ sign on my German
keyboard when I first got it. Still haven't got used to the location of the
<>[]{} keys (which I use quite regularly).
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> PS. I've always wondered... Do German keyboards have that weird
> beta-like glyph on them?
Yeh, it also has keys dedicated for a, u and o with umlauts on top.
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> The nerdiness of a person can be measured by how long he uses a computer
> with a fumbled keycapping setting (but with intact keymapping) before
> noticing that the keyboard caps have been changed.
one of the greatest nerds I knew had his keyboard layout set to dvorak (sp?)
and the keys actually placed in a totally random order. nobody else could
use his computer.
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scott wrote:
>> The nerdiness of a person can be measured by how long he uses a computer
>> with a fumbled keycapping setting (but with intact keymapping) before
>> noticing that the keyboard caps have been changed.
>
> one of the greatest nerds I knew had his keyboard layout set to dvorak
> (sp?) and the keys actually placed in a totally random order. nobody
> else could use his computer.
We had 1 user who had their mouse buttons swapped. I'm not sure why...
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Tom Austin wrote:
> I once swapped the J & K keys on my keyboard at work.
> It was great seeing other people try to figure out what was wrong.
"The system rejects my password unless I'm sitting down when I type it.
What's wrong?"
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Remember the good old days, when we
used to complain about cryptography
being export-restricted?
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Warp wrote:
> Tom Austin <taustin> wrote:
>> I once swapped the J & K keys on my keyboard at work.
>
>> It was great seeing other people try to figure out what was wrong.
>
> The nerdiness of a person can be measured by how long he uses a computer
> with a fumbled keycapping setting (but with intact keymapping) before
> noticing that the keyboard caps have been changed.
>
They usually spotted it pretty quick as their typing was messed up.
At least in the US the j has a bump used for touch typing.
By swapping the keys their one hand was in the wrong position.
So, people that touch typed didn't get very far.
I had no problem - I don't touch type.
Tom
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Stephen wrote:
> Actually normal common sense isn't applicable to new technology.
Rechargable batteries aren't really what I'd call "cutting edge."
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Remember the good old days, when we
used to complain about cryptography
being export-restricted?
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Stephen nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/06 10:31:
> BTW2 How can you tell if a keyboard is a French one?
>
>
> Stephen
>
>
Switch A & Q, switch Z & W, switch M & ;, set the number key to the special
characters.
Canadian French:
Similar to US but: "@" is accessed with AltCar+2, the ] is used for ¸(cedil) and
¨. AltCar+` and <(over the enter) for { and }. The / is used for é (I use the
num keypad for the /)
--
Alain
-------------------------------------------------
You know you've been raytracing too long when you've tried to scan your face for
a texture.
Quietly Watching
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Invisible nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/06 04:19:
> Darren New wrote:
>
>> I suspect she takes the car back to the dealer when she runs out of
>> gas, too.
>
> I don't really know why, but some people become paralysed by fear when
> they go near a computer. Otherwise normal people become unbelievably
> stupid when confronted by a PC. It's as if their brain switches off
> while using one.
>
> I don't know - perhaps these people think normal common sense isn't
> applicable to new technology?
Go take a look there:
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
There is a case where a secretary, who have used her word processor got it
upgraded, and she had to relearn EVERYTHING!
Or that seller who once sayd that you CAN'T multithread on a Pentium!
Or those that beleive that the monitor IS the computer, well before the iMac...
Or several who tried, and managed to, insert a CD into a 3.5" floppy drive, not
to talk about the CDs in 5.25" floppy drives, or the credit cards, or some other
strange stuff...
--
Alain
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My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night she used me To time an egg.
Rodney Dangerfield
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:08:23 -0500, Alain <ele### [at] netscape net> wrote:
>Go take a look there:
>
>http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
>
This one actually made me laugh...
The second day I worked doing phone tech support, I was called by an elderly woman who
was sobbing and panicked. After spending twenty minutes getting her calmed down, I
finally found out what her
problem was. She had been on the Internet and recieved the ever-popular message "This
program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." Immediately
afterward, she had heard police
sirens down the road and thought, "They're coming to lock me up!"
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