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- 04 Oct 2013, 20:34
- Forum: Deskthority talk
- Topic: Deskthority wiki photography competition
- Replies: 100
- Views: 21849
- 02 Oct 2013, 14:32
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Teletype 40K 104 DAB
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7393
- 21 Sep 2013, 04:00
- Forum: Deskthority talk
- Topic: Deskthority wiki photography competition
- Replies: 100
- Views: 21849
Oops...I better read the details about how to upload in the right place with the requisite details. I posted this one hastily, as I'm kinda busy today, but will read up and try again. It took me a while to get the process, as one not intimately familiar with wiki workings. In case this is an obstac...
- 20 Sep 2013, 15:08
- Forum: Deskthority talk
- Topic: Deskthority wiki photography competition
- Replies: 100
- Views: 21849
- 17 Sep 2013, 04:58
- Forum: Deskthority talk
- Topic: Deskthority wiki photography competition
- Replies: 100
- Views: 21849
Two more people need to post; I'm hoping to get second runner-up.
(I still have pictures of an ALPS Glidepoint keyboard to crop and upload, which I may or may not get around to soon (especially since there's no wiki entry yet) but I definitely won't have time for any more shoots before the deadline.)
(I still have pictures of an ALPS Glidepoint keyboard to crop and upload, which I may or may not get around to soon (especially since there's no wiki entry yet) but I definitely won't have time for any more shoots before the deadline.)
- 13 Sep 2013, 15:29
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Guess the keyboard
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4743
- 12 Sep 2013, 16:21
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Univac F-1355-00
- Replies: 32
- Views: 38207
- 10 Sep 2013, 03:28
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: A Honeywell Who Dunnit (1983)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 26826
Month/page? Most BYTE issues are available at the Internet Archive.mr_a500 wrote:I just saw a picture in a 1981 BYTE magazine that showed a Honeywell terminal very similar - with similar layout, yet the keys were all white. Maybe they realized that this was boring and later added the grey, black and red keys.
- 01 Sep 2013, 01:00
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: IBM Model M 1395764 with Curious Graphic Legends (1989?)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19024
- 31 Aug 2013, 17:35
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: recycling center photo request
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2754
- 30 Aug 2013, 23:13
- Forum: Deskthority club launch
- Topic: Deskthority hosting
- Replies: 68
- Views: 98172
- 27 Aug 2013, 16:05
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Guess The Project
- Replies: 140
- Views: 29401
DraftSight has serious usability issues for me. Every time I pan around, the view is "dirtied" (I have to change zoom to force a refresh, otherwise its unreadably fuzz-tastic) and I can't even figure out how to use the various measure tools. I'm failing at the simplest thing: measuring straight for...
- 27 Aug 2013, 15:57
- Forum: Deskthority talk
- Topic: Keep getting logged out
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7374
Maybe something here will help? This seems to be a common occurrence with the festering pile of pus that is phpBB.
https://www.google.com/search?q=logging ... .phpbb.com
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- 14 Aug 2013, 19:11
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Trends in keyboard design: Who started what?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 31447
- 14 Aug 2013, 17:48
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Trends in keyboard design: Who started what?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 31447
What did happen on the Selectric III was the concurrent move to cylindrical caps and ISO 9995 corner legends (see earlier in the thread). I do suspect that making room for the legends was part of the motivation for the flatter corners. IBM dates the Selectric III to 1980 and highlights the “ larger,...
- 12 Aug 2013, 21:58
- Forum: Deskthority talk
- Topic: Keep getting logged out
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7374
- 12 Aug 2013, 19:33
- Forum: Deskthority talk
- Topic: Keep getting logged out
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7374
Keep getting logged out
I frequently find myself logged out of Deskthority, often when trying to preview and post, but also at other times. Troubleshooting: It seems that DT sometimes, for no apparent reason, sends a new set of session cookies. See below for a log of HTTP headers sent and received loading a particular samp...
- 12 Aug 2013, 18:28
- Forum: Deskthority talk
- Topic: Post your deskthority header images here
- Replies: 2254
- Views: 443864
Code: Select all
if test $(djpeg $IMAGE | pnmcut 0 24 440 128 | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pgmhist | sed -n -e '/^0\t/s/^[^%]* \([0-9]\+\)\.\?[0-9]\?%.*/\1/p') -gt 50
then
# use white logo
else
# use black logo
fi
- 07 Aug 2013, 15:10
- Forum: Workshop
- Topic: Beamspring USB controller
- Replies: 378
- Views: 121642
this thing looks like one could start nuclear rockets with it :D The big red button to fire cruise missiles is fiction, at least on board the Royal Navy submarine HMS Splendid. Instead they are fired by the click of a mouse. One crew member, filmed during the Iraq war, tells this weekend's edition ...
- 01 Aug 2013, 02:01
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Trends in keyboard design: Who started what?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 31447
The wiki also lists no date for Cherry MX blue, likely the first tactile switch from Cherry, but the MX range is cited to have appeared around 1985 (starting with black, linear). My Xerox 1109 (no later than 1985) has Cherry MX switches in pale white (linear), grey-green (firm linear), and pale yel...
- 26 Jul 2013, 20:36
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Trends in keyboard design: Who started what?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 31447
Cylindrical is still better, despite the nonsense in this thread, such as, it was a cheapening. No, it was an evolution. Spherical caps are inherited from typewriters and shitty 70ties switches, where you need to hit the key in the center. The spherical cap forces you as such. None of the typewrite...
- 26 Jul 2013, 19:33
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Trends in keyboard design: Who started what?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 31447
Fascinating. I didn't consider that there were ISO standards preventing various keyboard features. It looks like those standards all started around '93-94 though, after manufacturers had already basically standardized anyway. (beam spring was killed long before the standard came out) The ISO standa...
- 26 Jul 2013, 18:51
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Trends in keyboard design: Who started what?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 31447
On the contrary, they are best ergonomic practice because they allow not having to completely move fingers away to see the legends underneath. I always suspected that was the thinking behind that change... The reasoning from ISO 9995 is that it provides a standard place for legends for normal, shif...
- 26 Jul 2013, 18:41
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Trends in keyboard design: Who started what?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 31447
- 26 Jul 2013, 17:19
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Trends in keyboard design: Who started what?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 31447
- 26 Jul 2013, 17:02
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: [COMPLETED] Laser Cut Prototyping mini-GB
- Replies: 666
- Views: 131724
- 25 Jul 2013, 15:29
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: If you bought a new keyboard today, what layout do you want?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4509
Wow now you impress me. I'd love to use KA but I couldn't stand the ESC key being rubber (I could possibly ignore F-keys) As you're a vi user, you could do as I do: swap ESC with (forward) Delete. This produces a nice symmetry between Enter (end lines & commands) and ESC (end input). You'd also pro...
- 24 Jul 2013, 17:11
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Round 4 / packing (99.8%) / shipping (99.7%)
- Replies: 4505
- Views: 838071
- 24 Jul 2013, 17:07
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: [COMPLETED] Laser Cut Prototyping mini-GB
- Replies: 666
- Views: 131724
Just got the reply from the laser cutter. Unfortunately they can't make it by the end of July and we have to wait until September. Excellent. I should be in for a battleship-sized plate by then. I'm just waiting for the second half of my Round 4 caps to arrive so I can finalize my layout with assur...
- 24 Jul 2013, 16:21
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Round 4 / packing (99.8%) / shipping (99.7%)
- Replies: 4505
- Views: 838071