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| gggs | thegoodcushion: I remember you said were looking for a Dvorak keyboard before: seems Unicomp have a bunch of tactile old-school keyboards: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net//keyboards.html | 07:05 |
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| gorilla | gggs: those look awesome.. Did they take over making the IBM Series M keyboard? | 07:42 |
| gggs | gorilla: I'm not sure, wikipedia says "The Model M keyboard is a class of computer keyboards manufactured by IBM, Lexmark and Unicomp, starting in 1984.", so it sounds like it | 07:45 |
| gggs | must've continued production | 07:46 |
| gorilla | The customiser 101 looks the same... I have one of the IBM ones.. very nice keyboard.. not usb though. | 07:46 |
| gggs | I consider that an advantage, I've only got 3 USB ports on my laptop | 07:47 |
| gorilla | Likewise but my latest desktop doesn't have ps/2. USB just works! 8 USB ports from memory. | 07:48 |
| gggs | really, no PS/2? maybe you could make your own curly-cable (you know the one) for it? | 07:51 |
| gorilla | PS/2 is slowly going bye-bye... along with the parellel printer port.. and the list goes on. | 07:53 |
| gorilla | I could look for a USB to PS/2 adaptor. | 07:54 |
| gggs | parallel died a long time ago, haven't seen a serial port for a while either, but that's the first I've heard of PS2 being phased out | 07:55 |
| gggs | how sentimental, my first PC was a PS/2, hence the keyboard | 07:55 |
| gorilla | The PS/2 is quiet a large plug compared with USB, also not hot-swappable. Some motherboards are tolerant of it but to spec it's not. | 07:58 |
| gggs | I guess so, it sounds like I'll have to pickup a USB adapter over the next few years | 08:01 |
| gggs | or maybe I'll throw some money on one of those "Customizer 104/105" USB keyboards | 08:03 |
| gggs | wikipedia: "Unicomp has had difficulty making them profitable because they rarely break, and most retailers will not stock such an expensive keyboard.[1]" | 08:03 |
| gorilla | hehe.. that doesn't surprise me and the general public don't want to spend the money on a keyboard... "but it cost more than the hard drive!" | 08:04 |
| gggs | yea $80 for a keyboard really isn't much when you consider its 50-year service-life, our Model-M's are over 20 years old | 08:08 |
| gorilla | Yeah.. it's something to can leave to your children when you go... but not a minute before I am done with it. :-D | 08:09 |
| gggs | haha I'd prefer to be buried with mine along with my trackball, like a samurai and his katana | 08:12 |
| gorilla | haha :-) | 08:14 |
| gggs | I was just wondering, why do phones & atm's have 1->0 number pads, and keyboards & calculators have 9->0 number pads? | 08:21 |
| gggs | I'm reading up on the rationale for the programmer variant of the Dvorak keyboard layout, he re-arranges it to 1->0 | 08:23 |
| gorilla | gggs: No idea.. | 08:24 |
| thegoodcushion | gggs: thanks for that link, I was asleep before but I just got it | 09:27 |
| gggs | thegoodcushion: no problem, there's a couple of companies that do Dvorak-labelled keyboards, but these guys purchased the license to the buckling-spring tech of the Model M | 09:45 |
| thegoodcushion | right | 09:46 |
| gggs | I don't know how it would compare to the newer Cherry switches | 09:46 |
| sagaci | video and audio and screwing up for me on my main ubuntu install :/ | 13:38 |
| gggs | sagaci: how so? | 13:40 |
| sagaci | well at first I thought i was just flash but then I tried totem and mplayer and it's just playing at like 10x speed, I can't slow it down and sound isn't working on audio or video | 13:41 |
| gggs | what Xorg driver are you using? | 13:42 |
| sagaci | wouldn't have a clue | 13:43 |
| dkg779 | anyway in ubuntu I can monitor my net usage, or check it from Terminal? | 14:17 |
| gggs | System -> Administration -> System Monitor | 14:18 |
| dkg779 | sorry gggs an actual accrued total of how many mb I have downloaded | 14:19 |
| gggs | dkg779: Under the 'Resources' tab is a network graph for the past 60 seconds, current up/down throughput, and total up/down since boot | 14:20 |
| gggs | you can also find the total with `ifconfig` | 14:20 |
| dkg779 | thanks gggs | 14:24 |
| gggs | np | 14:24 |
| dkg779 | yeah ifconfig did the job, thanks gggs | 14:38 |
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