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Name your favorite Keyboard layout!
2003-12-29, 11:37 AM #1
Qwerty forever!

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2003-12-29, 11:38 AM #2
I'm pretty sure you're gonna get a lot of "qwerty".

"That's alotta qwerty!"
2003-12-29, 11:43 AM #3
Shh. This is actually a clever ploy to find out what other keyboard layouts are called. Shh.

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2003-12-29, 11:44 AM #4
I ripped somebody from this forum off a long time ago...

[http://s91173500.onlinehome.us/keyboard.jpg]



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2003-12-29, 11:48 AM #5
[http://docs.sun.com/source/806-6642/images/BR.danish.tif.gif]

^ my keyboard layout. Basically a qwerty keyboard with some changes.
2003-12-29, 12:05 PM #6
Qwerty, but Dvorak sounds promising.
2003-12-29, 12:10 PM #7
qwertz

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2003-12-29, 12:19 PM #8
Dvorak is cool.

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2003-12-29, 1:11 PM #9
The US keyboard layout is.. strange all the Shift+[Whatever] keys are different. I'll stick with the UK one.

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2003-12-29, 1:26 PM #10
`1234567890-=
qwertyuiop[]\
asdfghjkl;'
zxcvbnm,./

One day i'll learn dvorak. Until then i'll stick to US and US-International [for when i'm doing accented foreign stuffs]

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2003-12-29, 1:43 PM #11
Qwerty - The slowest layout developed by IBM.

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2003-12-29, 1:47 PM #12
Swedish QWERTY layout.

() = Shift
[] = Alt Gr

(½!"#¤%&/()=?`)
§1234567890+´
[@£$€{[]}\]

(^)
QWERTYUIOPŨ
[€~]

(*)
ASDFGHJKLÖÄ'
[]

(>;:_)
<ZXCVBNM,.-
[|]


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"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
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2003-12-29, 1:56 PM #13
The only reason they developed qwerty is because typewriters couldn't keep up with fast typists. dvorak is the fastist, i think.

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no reason to get excited..
2003-12-29, 1:56 PM #14
104-key US QWERTY

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2003-12-29, 2:38 PM #15
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hebedee:
The only reason they developed qwerty is because typewriters couldn't keep up with fast typists. dvorak is the fastist, i think.

</font>


WRONG! This my friends, is called "The Big Lie."
True, this was what the guy put on the patents, but it is only true to a very small extent. The reason he put this is that someone else was close to patenting their keyboard layout, and, at the time, you needed a technical reason why this is better than that to get a patent. So he reached his hand up his rear end, and pulled out this wonderful gem, and handed it to the patent office.

The Big Lie, my friends..

PS. I use the 104 Qwerty on my Windows box, and a 101 key qwerty on Linux.
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[This message has been edited by happydud (edited December 29, 2003).]
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2003-12-29, 3:09 PM #16
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by happydud:
...PS. I use the 104 Qwerty on my Windows box, and a 101 key qwerty on Linux.</font>



Now, I love the old 101 key model-M keboards as much as the next guy (a bit more, problably), but I also love having those 3 extra meta keys at hand.... There no reason why you couldnt rebind them to something useful in Linux . . . like the K menu in KDE, right-click, etc... Not to mention, rebinding meta combos, Win+D for show desktop, Win+T for a terminal, etc... The possiblities are endless... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2003-12-29, 3:21 PM #17
Haha, I thought I had clicked the "Rogue etc is the hardest game ever" thread and the first post here was QWERTY and I was like wtf...

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2003-12-29, 4:32 PM #18
just pressing:
§1234567890+´
qwertyuiopå¨
asdfghjklöä'
<zxcvbnm,.-

with shift:
½!"#¤%&/()=?`
QWERTYUIOPÅ^
ASDFGHJKLÖÄ*
>ZXCVBNM;:_

Some alt gr ones
2: @
3: £
4: $
8: [
9: ]
0: }
+: \
E: €
¨: ~
<: |

German QWERTZ keyboards are very scary.

[This message has been edited by Daeron the Nerfherder (edited December 29, 2003).]
If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
2003-12-29, 5:43 PM #19
Well, in trying to fix my 101 key keyboard.. I broke it. Control flew across the room and hit my dad in the head, and then the whole thing snapped in two.. (I was trying to clean it)

So it's back to the old 104.

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RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.
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2003-12-29, 6:03 PM #20
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> Then, he said, he was sitting in front of the computer thinking about the spiral messages, and he suddenly looked at the keyboard. "I began to wonder what an alien intelligence would make of our keyboard, those rows of symbols on a device made to be pressed. How confusing it must look to another kind of creature! Look here," he said. "The letters on a regular keyboard go like this." He held up his pad.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
tab Q W E R T Y U I O P
caps A S D F G H J K L ;
shift Z X C V B N M , . ?

"And then I imagined what the keyboard would look like as a spiral, since our creature seems to prefer spirals. And I started numbering the keys in concentric circles.
"It took a little experimentation, since the keys don't line up exactly, but finally I got it," he said. "Look here: the numbers spiral out from the center. G is one, B is two, H is three, Y is four, and so on. See? It's like this." He quickly penciled in numbers.

1 2 3 4 5 612 711 8 9 0
tab Q W E R13 T5 Y4 U10 I O P
caps A S D14 F6 G1 H3 J9 K L ;
shift Z X C15 V7 B2 N8 M , . ?

"They just keep spiraling outward--M is sixteen, K is seventeen, and so forth. So finally I understood the message."
"What is the message, Harry?"
Harry hesitated. "I have to tell you. It's strange."
"How do you mean, strange?"
Harry tore another sheet off his yellow pad and handed it to them. Norman read the short message, printed in neat block letters:

HELLO. HOW ARE YOU? I AM FINE. WHAT IS
YOUR NAME? MY NAME IS JERRY.</font>


... I love that book [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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[This message has been edited by Correction (edited December 30, 2003).]
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2003-12-29, 6:10 PM #21
Sphere.

Scary that I recognized it after only the 3rd line.

And yea, that was a good book. Jerry is among the best parts.

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2003-12-29, 6:11 PM #22
Saw it on tv earlier today (it comes on like every other day) and decided to read the book again... that's why I thought of that [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

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2003-12-29, 6:16 PM #23
The movie was ok, but nothing compared to the book.

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2003-12-29, 6:19 PM #24
of course!

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2003-12-29, 6:49 PM #25
The Book r0x0rz all. Movie is really cool too though.

Abyss, however [book and movie] >>> *
Now raise your hand, if you think that was a Russian water-tentacle..

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[This message has been edited by Dormouse (edited December 29, 2003).]
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2003-12-29, 6:54 PM #26
Now, the question is... How to change what the extra shortcut buttons on the keyboard do...
2003-12-29, 6:59 PM #27
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Zecks:
Now, the question is... How to change what the extra shortcut buttons on the keyboard do...</font>


http://bcheck.arsware.org/hoe.php


...Or if Linux, RTFM... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2003-12-29, 10:39 PM #28
Norwegian QWERTY..beat that [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

(with the three extra letters in the Norwegian alphabet [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif])

[Edit: Swedish? Argh, didn't see you before]
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2003-12-30, 1:13 AM #29
Its similar to this one.

[http://www.jimmy.com/Software/KeyMapPro2/Images/1/KMP-Hungarian.gif]

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2003-12-30, 4:22 AM #30
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dormouse:
The Book r0x0rz all. Movie is really cool too though.

Abyss, however [book and movie] >>> *
Now raise your hand, if you think that was a Russian water-tentacle..

</font>


Never read the book... but the movie is great [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]
Except I always crindge when he gets his fingers stuck in the door... :x

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Do you have stairs in your house?
2003-12-30, 4:53 AM #31
German qwertz

^1234567890ß´
qwertzuiopü+
asdfghjklöä#
<yxcvbnm,.-

[Shift]
°!"§$%&/()=?`
QWERTZUIOPÜ*
ASDFGHJKLÖÄ'
>YXCVBNM;:_

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Sorry for the lousy German
2003-12-30, 5:48 AM #32
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dormouse:

Now raise your hand, if you think that was a Russian water-tentacle..

</font>


I love that line.

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