14 Oct
2007
14 Oct
'07
8:38 a.m.
Roy wrote:
On Saturday 13 October 2007 17:45, Tony Duell wrote:
I've seen assorted setups to change one's keyboard layout to that in
software,
but darn it, if I'm going there I want the keycaps too! Which I've
*never*
seen on anything...
Get a Model M (or other decent keyboard), pop 'em off and reshuffle.
The letter keys are generally interchangeable, the only problem would
be a cheap keyboard that won't let them go gracefully.
This
morning my wife complained to me that every time she opened a
door
to a cupboard something with qwerty written on it falls out !!!
oops
Oh that's easy to solve. Change all your keyboards to the Dvorak
(?spel)
layout. 
14 Oct
14 Oct
11:21 a.m.
On Sunday 14 October 2007 11:38, Scott Quinn wrote:
Roy wrote:
I thought about that, but the Dvorak layout requires some specific
combinations on the non-alphanumeric keys that I wouldn't end up with, and
somehow the thought of little sticky labels just doesn't have much appeal...
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On Saturday 13 October 2007 17:45, Tony Duell
wrote:
I've seen assorted setups to change one's keyboard layout to that in
software, but darn it, if I'm going there I want the keycaps too! Which
I've *never* seen on anything...
Get a Model M (or other decent keyboard), pop 'em off and reshuffle.
The letter keys are generally interchangeable, the only problem would
be a cheap keyboard that won't let them go gracefully. This
morning my wife complained to me that every time she opened a
door to a cupboard something with qwerty written on it falls out !!!
oops
Oh that's easy to solve. Change all your keyboards to the Dvorak
(?spel) layout. 
11:43 a.m.
Get a Model M (or other decent keyboard), pop 'em
off and reshuffle.
The letter keys are generally interchangeable, the only problem would
be a cheap keyboard that won't let them go gracefully.
I dunno, I've seen at least one keyboard where the keytops were
sculpted to provide a slightly dished typing surface. Not normally
noticeable, but if you swapped keys between rows the difference became
*really* obvious.
I think it was the Televideo 950, but that could be wetware bitrot.
Looking at the Sun type-3 I'm using right now, it looks as though it
too has the same property in a more subtle form - I should swap some
keycaps and see....
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1:25 p.m.
Get a Model M (or other decent keyboard), pop 'em
off and reshuffle.
The letter keys are generally interchangeable, the only problem would
be a cheap keyboard that won't let them go gracefully.
Fopr some keyboards (although not the type M), the letter keys are
different depending on which row they are supposed to be in. The HP
HP-HIL keyboards (HP46020/HP46021 I think) are like this, as I found out
the hard way when trying to converet a German to an English one...
-tony
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