deskthority

hi! i live in holland now. isn't that weird?

who lives here? who lives here and wants to drink beer?

This isn't gh ;_;
I'm not dutch anyway :P

Don't know about GHers, but plenty of people on DT are Dutch (or Nederlandsian or whatever they actually call their country again… said the Scotchman) probably second only to Germans around here, I think. Fair few from Britain too, obviously.

Maybe you need to update your location in your profile too.

welcome to the eu madhouse!

Welcome to your new homes (NL && DT)!

ahhh oops you know what i meant

Now my first reply make me look like an arse

The artfulle magick of retroposting. Take that, readability! Hyyy-ya! <cuts to Bruce Lee jumping off a building in that first western movie he was ever in> Victory.

the dutch

wheybags wrote:This isn't gh ;_;

Pretty good advice, especially for a GHer like sth.

adhoc wrote:

wheybags wrote:This isn't gh ;_;

Pretty good advice, especially for a GHer like sth.

please teach me the ways of eurostyle keyboarding. i'm all ears

Well you might try not calling people discussing German Nazis, that would be a pretty good start, especially over here in Europe.

adhoc wrote:Well you might try not calling people discussing German Nazis, that would be a pretty good start, especially over here in Europe.

see my avatar

sth wrote: please teach me the ways of eurostyle keyboarding. i'm all ears

thats easy....always demand ISO layout and language packs in GB's....done!

Also routinely complain about all the bother and DER ZOLL it takes to import keyboards not sold anywhere inside the EU, like HHKBs. If you just do that, we'll forget all about your being from the land of EK.

sth wrote:please teach me the ways of eurostyle keyboarding. i'm all ears

Check out marktplaats.nl for cool toetsenbords.

BimboBB wrote:thats easy....always demand ISO layout and language packs in GB's....done!

He is still in an ANSI country, so no need for him to use ISO layouts.

dammit!

7bit wrote:

BimboBB wrote:thats easy....always demand ISO layout and language packs in GB's....done!

He is still in an ANSI country, so no need for him to use ISO layouts.

God zij dank!

Muirium wrote:Also routinely complain about all the bother and DER ZOLL it takes to import keyboards not sold anywhere inside the EU, like HHKBs. If you just do that, we'll forget all about your being from the land of EK.

i just got smacked in the face with my first big VAT charge cost 328€ in import duty to get my bike here. at least my employer is paying for it!

7bit wrote: Check out marktplaats.nl for cool toetsenbords.
......

Shhhhhh, don't tell!

Also, in the Netherlands it's the douane / belastingdienst who is taking your money.

i already knew about marktplaats but i didn't know there were cool boards on it much cooler than craigslist. the map view is really neat!

sth wrote:...please teach me the ways of eurostyle keyboarding. i'm all ears

sth wrote:i already knew about marktplaats but i didn't know there were cool boards on it much cooler than craigslist. the map view is really neat!

Well there you go with another difference. Craigslist doesn't have a fancy website but the amount of items offered is huge, not to say gigantic, compared to the EU versions of small ads services. Ebay comp. used to buy them all btw. And all of the CL items are domestic shipping, hence you have lots of offers.
Over here there's a lot of international - EU internal shipping, and importing stuff is, as you already noticed, prone to being taxed. Goes for private trades/sales/used stuff too btw.
CL tried to get a piece of the pie, but never took off. Mostyl exiled US citizens using it I guess. Amsterdam CL for computers: http://amsterdam.en.craigslist.org/search/sya?query=+

Bustling, compared to Edinburgh's desert of a Craigslist:

http://edinburgh.craigslist.co.uk/search/sya?query=+

I have no idea why CL didn't take off over here when eBay and Amazon did. Gumtree (shudder) is where all the action's at in Britain, at least. And it's horrible. Take a look:

http://www.gumtree.com/computers-software/edinburgh

More listings in an hour than the local CL gets in a month. But it's shite. Stupid network effects…

Hey, where in the Netherlands are you, sth?
I think Webwit lives in Utrecht and Mr Interface in Eindhoven. I forgot where Kurrk is from.. At least one somewhat less active member lives in Amsterdam.

7bit wrote:He is still in an ANSI country, so no need for him to use ISO layouts.

Yeah, I think NL is the only country in Europe that uses ANSI layout.
Some countries such as Russia, Romania etc. go either way while most European layout use one key more than ANSI for all their symbols.

Findecanor wrote:Hey, where in the Netherlands are you, sth?
I think Webwit lives in Utrecht and Mr Interface in Eindhoven. I forgot where Kurrk is from.. At least one somewhat less active member lives in Amsterdam.

7bit wrote:He is still in an ANSI country, so no need for him to use ISO layouts.

Yeah, I think NL is the only country in Europe that uses ANSI layout.
Some countries such as Russia, Romania etc. go either way while most European layout use one key more than ANSI for all their symbols.

Webwit lives around 70km away from Utrecht.

The Utrechters.

Findecanor wrote:

7bit wrote:He is still in an ANSI country, so no need for him to use ISO layouts.

Yeah, I think NL is the only country in Europe that uses ANSI layout.
Some countries such as Russia, Romania etc. go either way while most European layout use one key more than ANSI for all their symbols.

Quite why we bother in Britain, I do not understand. We're basically ISO US… with £ where # should be.

webwit wrote:The Utrechters.

oops

grolsch... it's no rainier, but it's at least as good as hamm's/pbr/olympia. i think i'll be drinking a lot of it