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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #90 on: 1 September 2006, 19:05 »
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I want a dvorak keyboard.. Trouble is, aside from never having paid for a keyboard ever, keyboard shortcuts.

Like for my music player (amaroK) I press super (button that at least usually has the windows icon on it) and either of Z, X, C, V and B to go previous track, play, pause, stop or next track. On a qwerty keyboard all those letters are next to eachother right above the super key. On dvorak, it would be a bitch to either change the keyboard shortcuts (assuming that's even possible) or to put up with the standard ones designed for qwerty, unless the shortcuts would be different for dvorak?

And in games, W, S, A and D for movement - do you always have to change (at least) them, that would be annoying for some people..

To build a Dvorak keyboard, you simply need an US International keyboard and a Swiss army knife.
Just unmount the keys and re-arrange them.
Games where a bit annoying. Some games don't allow you to reset keys (Worms 3D for example) so for those games it will become a problem.
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #91 on: 1 September 2006, 19:15 »
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To build a Dvorak keyboard, you simply need an US International keyboard and a Swiss army knife.
Just unmount the keys and re-arrange them.
Games where a bit annoying. Some games don't allow you to reset keys (Worms 3D for example) so for those games it will become a problem.

Hmm, nice, maybe I'll try that..

Can you buy dvorak keyboards? Do they have different (standard?) positions for punctuation/etc keys?
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #92 on: 1 September 2006, 21:06 »
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #93 on: 1 September 2006, 21:09 »
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Hmm, nice, maybe I'll try that..

Can you buy dvorak keyboards? Do they have different (standard?) positions for punctuation/etc keys?

Just pull up a picture of dvorak keyboard on your PC, switch the keyboard mode to dvorak, disconnected your keyboard, get a spoon and use the handle to pry up and re arange the keys
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #94 on: 1 September 2006, 21:19 »
Now that I see you're in Ireland...I'll assume you have a UK formatted keyboard...there are some significant differences. Mainly in punctuation, the @ |\/? and you have the pound symbol as well as the $ and euro for newer keyboards.
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #95 on: 2 September 2006, 05:55 »
PowerMac G4 (Quicksilver)
Sonnet Encore ST/G4 1.4ghz CPU Upgrade
GeForce4 Ti 4600 (128mb VRAM)
1gb RAM
Sonnet Tempo Serial ATA Card
Adaptec USB 2.0 Card
AlchemyTV DVR card (TV/FM tuner and capture device)
Sweet Multiport
Pioneer DVR-107D DVD+/-RW
Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen Display
Apple Studio Display 17" LCD
Western Digital Raptor (SATA, 36gb, 10k)
Seagate 200gb HD (IDE, 7200 RPM)
Seagate 40gb HD (IDE, not sure of speed -- either 5400 or 7200)
Acom Data External Firewire Drive (120gb)
Maxtor (I think) 120gb HD in Firewire Enclosure
Western Digital USB 2.0 external drive (500gb)
Generic DVD drive in Firewire Enclosure
Canon Scanner
Brother HL-2040 Monochrome Laser Printer
HP 812C Inkjet Printer
And a bunch of other USB peripherals like my iMic, USB Missile Launcher, PSX > USB joypad adapter, Logitech Microphone, and MIDI Keyboard.  My cabling is a nightmare, trust me.  Runs OS 10.4.7 and OS 9.2.2.

Black MacBook
2.0ghz Intel Core Duo CPU
2gb RAM
80gb HD
OS X 10.4.7, Windows XP, and OS 9.0.4 via Sheepshaver

iMac DV (Tangerine)
400mhz G3
256mb RAM
20-25gb HD (not sure)
160gb External Firewire Drive
DebianPPC

iMac DV (Indigo)
450mhz G3
64mb RAM
20gb HD (I think, would need to look)
OS 9.2.2
Spare machine I got for free; not very important.

Macintosh Classic II
16mhz CPU
10mb RAM
500mb HD
OS 7.5.5
Asante Desktop EN/SC SCSI to Ethernet Adapter
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #96 on: 2 September 2006, 07:05 »
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Macintosh Classic II
16mhz CPU
10mb RAM
500mb HD
OS 7.5.5
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Plan to use that beast for CAD work ?:D
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #97 on: 2 September 2006, 07:37 »
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Plan to use that beast for CAD work ?:D


Primarily Shufflepuck Cafe.
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #98 on: 2 September 2006, 07:42 »
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Primarily Shufflepuck Cafe.
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #99 on: 2 September 2006, 18:37 »
I am officially a Dvorak user!
Quote from: pofnlice
Now that I see you're in Ireland...I'll assume you have a UK formatted keyboard...there are some significant differences. Mainly in punctuation, the @ |\/? and you have the pound symbol as well as the $ and euro for newer keyboards.
It's all good.. I went to System > Prefs > Keyboard (in Ubuntu), selected the UK > Dvorak, and then I could set it up perfectly.

This post typed in 8 mins :/
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #100 on: 2 September 2006, 20:12 »
It took me about 2 weeks to learn dvorak to acceptable speed. I'm not very good at typing, so my speed was never that good anyway. (However, it's probably faster than I was typing on qwerty).

You can also try this basic course in dvorak
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #101 on: 3 September 2006, 12:22 »
PC:
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (512KB L2, 2.2GHz)
250GB Seagate barracuda 7200.10 (16MB cache, SATA-II)
1GB DDR400 RAM (2x 512MB)
nVidia GeForce 6 6600GT (256MB RAM)
Debian stable
8 fans! :D (This runs in my room 24/7)

LAN server:
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (256KB L2, 1.5GHz)
2x Maxtor 80GB IDE drive (2MB cache)
128MB DDR266 RAM
S3 Savage4 PCI
Debian stable

Web server/router:
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (512KB L2, 1.8GHz)
Maxtor 80GB IDE drive (2MB cache)
Maxtor 40GB IDE drive (2MB cache)
512MB DDR400 RAM
nVidia TNT2 (Awesome 800x600 console!)
Debian stable
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #102 on: 30 September 2006, 17:21 »
Gaming/Windows box:

Motherboard: Intel DP965LT
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
RAM: G.Skill 2 x 1GB DDR2-533 4-4-4-12
VGA: ATi X1800GTO 256MB GDDR3
PSU: FSP Saga 400W
Optical: NEC ND-3550A
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache

Linux box:

Motherboard: Asus P2B-S
CPU: Intel PIII 450MHz 'Katmai', will be replaced with a Coppermine or Tualatin
RAM: 3 x 64 MB
SCSI controller: Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra2 Single Channel LVD
Video: nVidia GeForce 4000MX 64MB DDR
HDD: Seagate Cheetah 10GB 10000RPM Ultra2 LVD
CDR: HP SureStore SCSI

Runs Debian Etch.
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Re: Post your specs
« Reply #103 on: 30 September 2006, 17:42 »
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Athlon XP (Barton) 2400+
2 * 128mb PC2100 ram
AOpen AK79G-1394 mobo (on board sound, video (geForce 4 mx, 32mb))
LG DVD-rom drive (dunno the speeds)
52x32x52x MSI cd-rw drive
~6 year old floppy drive (just use it for booting floppys)
80GB seagate barracuda harddrive
Slackware 10.1, dualbooting with Debian GNU/Hurd (haven't used it too much yet tho)
oops.. that was *always* a 2600+.

I've recently gotten my RAM up to 630Mb - it generally doesn't swap ever anymore \o

I got a DVD RW drive too now, and I've got two old harddrives - one 160Gb and the other 40Gb or something like that.

All without spending a penny outta my own pocket \o  It rocks to be living with people who are too fond of buying every component new for their computers.. Hell, I got a free 17" (I think) Hercules TFT monitor too :D

Right now I'm running Ubuntu Edgy Eft beta, and I have Ubuntu 6.06 and Foresight installed too, and Windows 2000 which I haven't touched since it did me a favor and corrupted it's profile directory sooner rather than later.
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