There is a special place in hell reserved for the designer who swapped the function and control key placement on that keyboard. Thankfully you can change it in the bios.
If you can change it in the BIOS, then there's no problem, right?
IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards
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Re: IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards
#112http://www.pckeyboard.com/ Unicomp is still keeping the glory days of the IBM Model M keyboard alive.
The only problem with this keyboard: anyone I use it around absolutely hates the noise. Either my co-workers at work or my girlfriend at home.
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#113Bit unrelated: there are upgrade kits available for Thinkpad laptops - does anyone know if there is a way to replace the motherboard of a 2004-era R40 with something at least a bit faster?
Looking at the Thinkwiki page for the R40 [1] it looks like they come in Celeron, Pentium 4 and Pentium M models. You’d want the 1.7Ghz version of the Pentium M for the best speed I’d think. There’s some talk of changing the motherboard out on an R40 here [2] and there seem to be plenty of motherboards on ebay for cheap.
[1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:R40 [2] http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=80880
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
You must not be a programmer. Being able to move the mouse and scroll without your hands leaving the home row is genius.
Personally, I use the trackpoint exclusively, up to the point where I have the standalone Lenovo old-style keyboard.
Yep, me too. More productive, and as a bonus I no longer have 'mouse hand' RSI wrist pain. People are missing out.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Long live the Capslock-as-control-key master race. :)
emacs user! another to be expunged. all hail as caps lock! for on that day, all shall be in normal mode, on the day of text one will `export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim` -- from the book of vim 2:12
The best way to deal with Caps Lock is to make it a Control Key when used as a modifier (held down when another key is pressed), but Escape when typed by itself. There's a program for GNU/Linux called xscape that does exactly that.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Long live the Capslock-as-control-key master race. :)
emacs user! another to be expunged. all hail as caps lock! for on that day, all shall be in normal mode, on the day of text one will `export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim` -- from the book of vim 2:12
I use vim and have caps lock bound to control. I use Ctrl-[ to switch to normal mode and ctrl is so much more useful outside of just vim.
Re: IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards
#118Apple should stick the magic mouse surface onto keyboard keys. Imagine being able to use a home row key as a tiny trackpad. You could also scroll by swiping down on a key. Never have to move your hands from home row. Come on apple!
Re: IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards
#119http://www.pckeyboard.com/ Unicomp is still keeping the glory days of the IBM Model M keyboard alive.
The only problem with this keyboard: anyone I use it around absolutely hates the noise. Either my co-workers at work or my girlfriend at home.
When I asked my co-workers, I got the whole range from "it sounds homely and pleasant" (quite a few actually) to one guy that asked to sit as far away as possible.
I actually flossed it and added some padding, so now it's slightly less loud, but I still got one complaint...
But eventually I decided that I can't make everyone happy. So I just rattle away in blissful enjoyment instead.
Re: IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have both a ThinkPad and a MacBook Pro and MacBooks are also doing it. I prefer to override Caps Lock to be another Ctrl and I can't remember the last time I felt the need to use the normal left-Ctrl. The best part is that Caps Lock is here to stay because many users like to write ALL CAPS.
I don't write in ALL CAPS, but I do have to type code where some constant like SERVER_RETRY_TIMEOUT will be in all caps. So I do use my caps lock key a lot.
Isn't there a to caps functionality for a lot of ides and editors?