Re: OT...but perhaps of interest

["Dave Althoff, Jr." <dalloff@gcfn.org>]

Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote:
: On 2 Apr 2005 22:15:32 -0800, skearney@accessbee.com wrote:
: 
: >But suppose you just want to transpose dfjk with etni, does your
: >operating system allow you to remap keys?  While I would like to learn
: >Dvorak, it is just too big of a change.  I can really feel the boost
: >that having etni on the home keys gives me, you could call it the
: >cowards Dvorak.
: 
: If I was going to learn to touch type with a different layout I would
: go with Dvorak.  No real point in learning a layout that practically
: no one else uses.
: 
: In fact, I was going to teach myself to touch type with the Dvorak
: layout many years ago when I first got my IIgs as it is just a control
: panel setting to change the keyboard to the Dvorak layout.  However,
: upon thinking about it further, I figured I would never get very good
: at touch typing with Dvorak and my QWERTY touch typing would suffer
: because I would only really be able to use the Dvorak layout on my
: machine at home.  Whenever I used someone else's machine, I'd most
: likely not have the option to change the layout so I never bothered to
: learn the Dvorak layout.

Hell, I have enough trouble dealing with those keyboards where they 
swapped CONTROL and CAPS LOCK on me.  All my keyboards have Control in 
the right place now (though it doesn't work quite right on my laptop with 
its ADB keyboard) but all the other keyboards at work are still all 
screwed up...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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