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Just having a couple foot pedals for Ctrl and Alt would be nice. I had rigged up some flight sim pedals at one point to do just that, but really what you need is something like a piano foot pedal.

I would also like to try these. Put me on the list.

Ripster/Webwit flame war

Nothing about white balance? Damn, and I was hoping for a webwit/ripster flame war...

I see that it turned into the ultimate flame thread after all.

I'll have to try this out. I use wmii mostly, sometimes Awesome. Stacking window managers can go to hell.

...should we start an Window Manager thread? I would kinda like that...

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/6/19/128898685720828429.jpg I take issue with the hostility towards "feelings". The operating system is the man/machine interface of the computer, and all such interfaces (whether they be car dashboards or the handle on your drill) must take into acc...

vi and LaTeX. ... ... ... ... Nah, I'm kidding. For work-related document creation (i.e., things that need to be printed out), I use Office 2010. For pure text input, I use gedit or Notepad++; I nearly always type forum posts on these. For config file editing and script management, I use Vim (or Nan...

Ugh... I know this feeling...

I fixed this by carefully boring it out using a small screwdriver bit on a dremel, and then extracting bits with an Xacto knife. You need to break up the plastic, since it is wedged in tightly.

I usually recommend The Typing of the Dead.

ripster wrote:Zerg RUSH!

I always cheered for the Zulus in these movies. Kind of like cheering for the Pakistanis when they play Cricket.

Terran bio is so OP.

DejaVu Sans Mono for terminal work, Times and Ariel for everything else.

I am a square.

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Thank you for sharing, that was special

DON'T SHOOT THE PANDA!

I read the title of this thread right in the middle of this video. I felt like I got caught masturbating.

I did not know that about ALPS. Do they activate at 2mm, or is that not a consistent figure among mechanical switches?

I used my Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 for about eight years before it finally kicked the bucket a couple of months ago. My parents destroyed theirs in just a few, so your millage may vary.

Whaaaaa.....

Any wide keys in that lot, such as spacebars?

Yep. Though lately I have been relegating more time to watching VODs than playing, given my graduate school schedule.

Beaver.399, recently demoted to platinum, woo!

Filco!

(but others are fine too...)

Some games (I recall Mafia 2 and Descent II) gave me problems with key combos on 2KRO boards, and so I prefer 6KRO or NKRO boards simply to avoid the hassle. For most games (eg, Starcraft 2) this is a non-issue. But the real reason is that I can say hur hur my keyboard is better than yours, i can pr...

sixty wrote:"it's just a keyboard!!"

I want my damn reversi on Windows 7.

What sort of material does Steelseries use on their mice (xai, kinzu)? Those have an awesome feel to them.

Capacitive buckling springs, the kind found in Model Fs. They have the most delightful sound and such a crisp feel. Model Ms are too heavy in comparison.

Cherry blues are a very close contender, and are what I use on a day to day basis.

I hear Monster is having a sale on USB cables. Only $49.95!

The braids in the cable make it electricity go faster.

I used to feel this way about the Intellimouse Explorer 3.0; no other mouse matched it's simplicity and ergonomics. I used one for close to ten years, but the relatively low sensitivity bothered me enough that I replaced it with a DeathAdder. The DeathAdder is more functional, but I still haven't go...

What exactly is bad about the build quality? All mice seem cheap to me, and Razer does not stand out in my mind.

(another DeathAdder user, I like it)

My expert mouse works just fine on Debian. For older distros, workarounds exist.

Heh, quite the scheme to get people to post