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Dec. 21st, 2007 | 14:46
GPS: 99204
zeitgeist: 
hungry
now playing: “On The Run” - Pink Floyd
I have a wonderful keyboard and I could ramble ad nausium about it, thought that's a bit annoying. Suffice to say that it has mechanical keyswitches like the old IBM keyboards or the Apple Extended II keyboards, complete with the right amount of action and key force. It's built like a tank, feels great, and is loud. It always made me happy when my ex-roommate yelled at me about how loud it was.
That said, when it dies or wears out (I think I might wear through the spacebar before the keys die), I intend to get Das Keyboard. It, too, has the mechanical keyswitches. It would also make a great Dvorak keyboard. Interestingly enough, I've found that I'm quite capable of QWERTYing on a Dvorak layout (by touch). Now, I need to switch that around so as I am Dvoraking on a QWERTY.
Also of note, things whichI have broken:
Firefox 2.0.0.11 spellcheck function doesn't quite work right on my main machine (the one I didn't mess with--the 1.8 GHz G5). It shows words that are misspelled, but it won't give me the context menu dictionary.
Inkscape runs on my MacBook (Intel Core2 Duo 2 GHz), but all the letters of all the menus are boxes, as if there is no text. I don't think it's an issue with X11, because OpenOffice seems to work just fine. It was actually the reason (aside from the gawdawful stacks) that I switched back to 10.4--which is working fine except for Inkscape).
If anyone has any suggestions on these, I'd be willing to listen.
That said, when it dies or wears out (I think I might wear through the spacebar before the keys die), I intend to get Das Keyboard. It, too, has the mechanical keyswitches. It would also make a great Dvorak keyboard. Interestingly enough, I've found that I'm quite capable of QWERTYing on a Dvorak layout (by touch). Now, I need to switch that around so as I am Dvoraking on a QWERTY.
Also of note, things which
Firefox 2.0.0.11 spellcheck function doesn't quite work right on my main machine (the one I didn't mess with--the 1.8 GHz G5). It shows words that are misspelled, but it won't give me the context menu dictionary.
Inkscape runs on my MacBook (Intel Core2 Duo 2 GHz), but all the letters of all the menus are boxes, as if there is no text. I don't think it's an issue with X11, because OpenOffice seems to work just fine. It was actually the reason (aside from the gawdawful stacks) that I switched back to 10.4--which is working fine except for Inkscape).
If anyone has any suggestions on these, I'd be willing to listen.