Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:10:44 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com> Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard troubles Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102059280.9685-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <200003110233.VAA24214@dean.pc.sas.com>
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Brian Dean wrote to Ryan Thompson: > Ryan Thompson wrote: > > Thanks for the info. When I have another $500 burning a hole in my > > checkbook, I will probably order another keyboard, just so I have > > another one, if nothing else. :-) > > Why not just get a decent monitor/keyboard switch? Belkin makes a > nice 4-port in the $200 range that makes your motherboard think > there's a keyboard attached even if you are not currently switched > onto the system. I have something quite similar.. Still, seems like some individuals remain adamantly opposed to the idea of keyboard swapping, however careful one is. :-) > Just a thought ... and it's a lot cheaper than more convenient that > swapping your $500 keyboards (which must be _really_ impressive BTW :). They are... A small electronics firm in Saskatchewan was nice enough to help me design and manufacture something to fit my needs. (They even let me play with their expensive CAD tools to design the hardware key repeat :-). Actually, they gave me a really good price, considering their costs. I programmed it with a custom key layout (actually, something very close to Dvorak), but some key positions are different, and I've even got a few extra keys that I've wired macros to. I used to nicely exceed 100WPM on a $20 QWERTY keyboard. My QWERTY speed, understandably, has dropped to ~80, while my customized Dvorak speed jumped to about 110 sustained. -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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