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Don't know if it's the hub or something else. Hasu might have better idea, as he did HHKB dissection long time ago. What's your method? Reading power consumption from the smart battery of an unplugged laptop. At least the ballpark should be right. But I'll have to reconsider the HHKB as a travel key...

Can't remember this discussed so far.

As a quick, dirty and not very reliable experiment, I checked the increase of power consumption from HHKB Pro2, measured by the smart battery of a laptop. Roughly 0.7 - 0.8 W reported. That's quite much.

Daniel Beardsmore wrote: ↑I still don't know what sort of trickery was used to scroll just part of the screen when most people couldn't even scroll the whole screen.

Looks like rapid byte-sized redraw.

Fusion stuff from 20 years ago that I recently rediscovered. I like what Chris Poland did after his Megadeth years.

Just a different niche with different set of compromises.
Would've been nice if there was something better in the low-profile category, but as they are, ML do an okay job.
Personally, I'd pay some premium for a modern laptop with ML and have much increased ergonomy, but this is not going to happen.

Is it, though? My G84-4400 was NIB (albeit a battered box) and the G84-4100 was used. In both cases we prefer the NIB keyboard to the used one. That could be valid reason. The G84-4400 I got was from industrial environment, so fine dust might've entered with time. G84-4100 after about half a year w...

ML beats all scissor switches for me. Not MX, of course, but quite nice low-profile switch.

@Daniel: my ML experience is the reverse. Used G84-4400 that I got feels and performs worse (subjective, of course) than brand new G84-4100. That's why I got a stash of NIB 4100s at one point.

Weird. That Cannonball Adderley Rhodes playing is so un-Zawinul. Yet they announce him at then end.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/30/msi-gt80-titan/

Just random news.

EDIT: Already in "News" section. Sorry.

Get well, 7bit!

Findecanor wrote: ↑BTW, I've worked at a place that had an antistatic floor.

That's pretty much a must for a place that handles PCB/IC work. And the floor requires periodical maintenance.

matt3o wrote: ↑technically I could connect the motors directly to a parallel port. 2 pins per motor + 2 pins for spindle.

No, you don't want that.

That mill is driven by stepper motors, right?

@matt3o: I was using Cygwin more than a decade ago, probably on XP. Was mostly fine, except for being very slow. Have you tried contacting old-school CNC users about some old but useful software (even DOS)? About twenty years ago I was developing CNCs, and while never bothered with CAD software, the...

HHKB has similar warping, something that possibly goes with PBT. The quality of the legends is the thing to look after.

Mine arrived few days ago - base set and text modifiers. The keycaps turned out really cool, and to my liking - clean and conservative.
Cheers to that Italian guy.

Looking for the following keys:
I don't know how I skipped ordering a "Text Pro" set.

Optionally a Space Invader, but the demand for those seems to be too high.

Very often stickers on plastic left for long time seem to change the plastic. Some component in the glue somehow reacts. At least I personally very often can not clean after removing a sticker (sometimes even price tag) - the area on the plastic remains smudgy.

Anyone know tricks about this?

Some LEDs are bright enough even at 2-3 mA, you can go further down just for indication. But with the classic series (current limiting) resistor additional energy is wasted in the resistor itself, as the total will be V*I anyway. With 5V power supply and 2mA current that still makes good 10mW power ...

Web is not my area of expertise, so I can't comment much with my limited knowledge. The caching seems plausible, although DT before year or so really had the right behaviour for unread topics' icons. Actually, initially that's what caught my attention - a proper behaviour, since the few other forums...

Unfortunately, no. The whole browser storage is volatile (tmpfs). Any idea how to debug the BACK issue? Is it happening to me only? I change the layout, then dive into some thread, then use the browser's BACK function to return and the layout is thumbnail again. There is also some other bug which cr...

I don't keep cookies, for various reasons. Possible with the user profile?
But going back is something else, the cookie is still alive and well then.

That new extra, the picture thumbnail and snippet of text - I can change the page layout with the icon (I just want the most simple view, like it was before), but it is neither remembered for my profile, nor when going back in browser history.

Fixable?

The keycap styling comes from the style of the earlier Apple IIc, which first used Apple’s switches, and then switched to Alps switches later, right? Apple IIc keyboard has flat profile, unlike the A9M0330. I just cleaned one these days, early model - the only stabilizer was on the space bar. :) Ke...

No, they're terrible at design level, not that units slipped QA more than expected.
How could these prototypes get the "go" is beyond me.

jacobolus wrote:It’s kind of mind-boggling to me that they let this problem get through in production, but hey, it is what it is.

Apple made terrible keyboards for some Apple II computers, so ergonomy wasn't a priority at all.

Findecanor wrote:No. SMK and Alps have different pinout and plate.

Thanks, that saves me the trouble.

I was wondering - could the SMK white switches on A9M0330 be replaced with Matias?

That a beagle?

My rant is about the stretch of the fingers, while keeping the pinky on "Fn".
And I don't know anything Apple after the Apple II. Those who need good navigation cluster ... well, they need it.