X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,f03e3bf5db1db496 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-07 16:31:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.cc.tut.fi!uutiset.saunalahti.fi!not-for-mail From: Mooz Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: german layout Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 23:38:19 +0000 Organization: SAUNALAHDEN asiakas Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3CB0D86B.1020701@notrashwelho.com> References: <3CAE2CB2.5000901@notrashwelho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs182229.pp.htv.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tron.sci.fi 1018222239 17014 213.243.182.229 (7 Apr 2002 23:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Apr 2002 23:30:39 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020208 X-Accept-Language: en-us Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:16725 maraz wrote: > The Only Correct One: > > .-------------------------------------------------------------------. > | [E] [F1|F2|F3|F4] [F5|F6|F7|F8] [F9|10|11|12] [P|S|P] <> <> <> | > | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | > | [�][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][0][+][�][<-__] [I|H|U] [N][/][*][-]| > | [==][A][B][C][D][E][F][G][H][I][J][K][�][_ | [D|E|D] [7][8][9]|+|| > | [Cap][L][M][N][O][P][Q][R][S][T][U][V][']|__| _ [4][5][6]|_|| > | [^_][<][W][X][Y][Z][�][�][�][,][.][-][^_____] [^] [1][2][3]|E|| > | [ct] [al][________________________][al] [ct] [<|v|>] [0 ][.]|_|| > \___________________________________________________________________/ (Slightly diddled this) > > It's actually quite fun to watch someone trying to write on a kb like > that ;) My friend rearranged his keyboard a bit... He doesn't look at > the keyboard at all when writing (not that I would) and it's a cool > joke to put some non-geek people to write something and watch their > reactions as A gives a Q, B gives a W et cetera. One could map the keys like that in the OS too. Chances are anything non-qwerty is better speed-wise, once you get used to it. (I wouldn't) Rearranging them to messages might be more fun, or snatching extra keys and turning the keyboard into a piece of ascii art... -mooz