[Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Glen Peterson
Last night there was brief moaning by people who wanted keybards without the Windows(tm) keys. IBM sells two USB keyboards that meet all my requirements. Ctrl and Alt are right next to the space bar. That little key on the left is a function key. The travel keyboard is the same as the one

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Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:48:19AM -0400, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: Glen Peterson wrote: Last night there was brief moaning by people who wanted keybards without the Windows(tm) keys. For many users, the easiest and cheapest way to get one is probably to go to the MIT Flea and buy an old

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: Glen Peterson wrote: Last night there was brief moaning by people who wanted keybards without the Windows(tm) keys. For many users, the easiest and cheapest way to get one is probably to go to the MIT Flea and buy an old keyboard -- one made long enough

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 8:20 AM -0400 8/4/04, Glen Peterson wrote: Last night there was brief moaning by people who wanted keybards without the Windows(tm) keys. I It has the windows keys, but I swear by the Tactile Pro. Works fine on Mac or PC, should work on anything supporting USB keyboards. It's noisy because

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:48:19AM -0400, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: For many users, the easiest and cheapest way to get one is probably to go to the MIT Flea and buy an old keyboard -- one made long enough ago not to have Windows keys. That won't help if you

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Mark J. Dulcey
Chris Devers wrote: I resisted using the win-key for years, but now that I've given in, I'd never want to go back to using Windows without having that key, and it bugs me that Linux OSX don't seem to have globally available system tools available with just a keystroke like that. On my Linux

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Ian Langworth
I whined last night that I use a Playstation 2 Linux Kit keyboard, which is, in my opinion, the best keyboard layout I've ever used: http://playstation2-linux.com/Linux_kit.jpg Ctrl, Meta and Alt are next to the space bar on both sides and are all about the same size. Caps-lock is in the

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread John Abreau
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 10:21, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: People don't complain about the SysRq key or those other useless keys you mentioned because they're mostly in out-of-the-way places. The Windows key, on the other hand, occupies prime real estate on the keyboard, so it is a bit more in the

Re: [Boston.pm] Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, John Abreau wrote: There's also the fact that SysRq actually does something, at least on Redhat and Fedora using the default Gnome desktop settings: it creates a screenshot. That sentence, in a nutshell, is why I'm ready to give up on Linux :) How amusingly lateral their

Re: [Boston.pm] OT - Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Mike Burns
--- Chris Devers mumbled on 2004-08-04 20.08.27 -0400 --- On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, John Abreau wrote: There's also the fact that SysRq actually does something, at least on Redhat and Fedora using the default Gnome desktop settings: it creates a screenshot. That sentence, in a nutshell, is

Re: [Boston.pm] OT - Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Mike Burns wrote: I'm looking at the keyboard I'm at now, and a few others, and I see: [ Print Screen / SysReq ] As one key. Am I missing something, or did the GNOME guys really choose the correct key? Ahh. Well then. Sorry, I'm a Mac user, I should have checked first :) But

Re: [Boston.pm] OT - Keyboards

2004-08-04 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:49:52PM -0400, Mike Burns wrote: If I'm not mistaken, Linux has an option where the SysReq key becomes a special key that works when the kernel freezes. I seem to remember Linux developers using it. You are not mistaken. This is a compile time kernel option which,