[07:05] <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
[07:42] <gorilla> gggs: those look awesome.. Did they take over making the IBM Series M keyboard?
[07:45] <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
[07:46] <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.
[07:47] <gggs> I consider that an advantage, I've only got 3 USB ports on my laptop
[07:48] <gorilla> Likewise but my latest desktop doesn't have ps/2. USB just works! 8 USB ports from memory.
[07:51] <gggs> really, no PS/2? maybe you could make your own curly-cable (you know the one) for it?
[07:53] <gorilla> PS/2 is slowly going bye-bye... along with the parellel printer port.. and the list goes on.
[07:54] <gorilla> I could look for a USB to PS/2 adaptor.
[07:55] <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
[07:58] <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.
[08:01] <gggs> I guess so, it sounds like I'll have to pickup a USB adapter over the next few years
[08:03] <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]"
[08:04] <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!"
[08:08] <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
[08:09] <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
[08:12] <gggs> haha I'd prefer to be buried with mine along with my trackball, like a samurai and his katana
[08:14] <gorilla> haha :-)
[08:21] <gggs> I was just wondering, why do phones & atm's have 1->0 number pads, and keyboards & calculators have 9->0 number pads?
[08:23] <gggs> I'm reading up on the rationale for the programmer variant of the Dvorak keyboard layout, he re-arranges it to 1->0
[08:24] <gorilla> gggs: No idea..
[09:27] <thegoodcushion> gggs: thanks for that link, I was asleep before but I just got it
[09:45] <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
[09:46] <thegoodcushion> right
[09:46] <gggs> I don't know how it would compare to the newer Cherry switches
[13:38] <sagaci> video and audio and screwing up for me on my main ubuntu install :/
[13:40] <gggs> sagaci: how so?
[13:41] <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
[13:42] <gggs> what Xorg driver are you using?
[13:43] <sagaci> wouldn't have a clue
[14:17] <dkg779> anyway in ubuntu I can monitor my net usage, or check it from Terminal?
[14:18] <gggs> System -> Administration -> System Monitor
[14:19] <dkg779> sorry gggs an actual accrued total of how many mb I have downloaded
[14:20] <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`
[14:24] <dkg779> thanks gggs
[14:24] <gggs> np
[14:38] <dkg779> yeah ifconfig did the job, thanks gggs