26 Nov
2007
26 Nov
'07
5:58 p.m.
On Saturday 24 November 2007 05:21, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 12:12 -0500, Roy J. Tellason
wrote:
On this IBM keyboard I'm typing on now, there are two keys to either side of
the spacebar. I can find one or the other of ctrl or alt by feel, no
problem. On the "windows" style keyboard I have plugged into another machine
here, there are three keys to the left of the spacebar and four to the
right. I can't find those by feel, have to stop and look at what I'm
hitting, and it slows me down. The positioning is changed, too, which
also impacts my typing speed. Somewhere I have another IBM keyboard, and
once I find it in the mess here I'll be using that one on that other box as
well. The quality of that windows keyboard is lousy, anyway -- having to
hit keys especially hard to get them to work, and similar nonsense is also
slowing me down when using that machine.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
It isn't just the logo on the keys, though.
It's the addition of
those "extra" keys to the bottom row, and the consequent resizing of the
existing alt and ctrl keys to allow them to fit, that's part of what's
messing me up with those keyboards...
Am I being particularly dense here? I don't really see the problem. If
the Windows key is where you expect the ALT key to be, just remap it...