Re: [OT] Developer keyboard
Hi list, On 15 August 2013 12:46, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: I actually get more discomfort from the mouse than I do from the keyboard. Same here. I get a cramped mousehand when gaming sometimes. Time for a break then. On 15 August 2013 13:08, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Re ergonomic. Try it for a while, you'll learn to love leaning your wrists on something. And likely hate the normal ones. I use one at home on the iMac - for such an ergonomic company Apple has awful keyboards and mice. I often use three or more different keyboards during the day and posture seems a much more significant factor to me on stress and strain than any attribute of the keyboard itself. Opposite to Mike's experience, staying mobile at the keyboard is the key for me, rather than leaning on anything. This may be because coding needs much more than A-Z. The keyboard itself doesn't matter except when typing quickly from muscle memory. That said, personally, ergonomic is synonymous with uncomfortable - keyboards, mice, chairs, car interiors, phones, toothbrushes, cutlery, you name it - but I understand that it may fit others. Compact is as bad for me as ergonomic. I don't have larger-than-average hands but larger keyboards and larger mice especially are much more comfortable for me, as well as large cutlery and steering wheels. I'm still young, but I find that I type better and with less stress at any keyboard by adopting a pianist's posture at the computer: back straight (not leaning against the chair back), elbows in, wrists level (not leaning on the desk or gel pad) and fingers curled so that my whole upper body is relaxed and mobile from the seat to my fingers. Of course you don't need to move from side to side nearly as much at the computer as you would when performing at the piano, but if I let the brain subconsciously take care of balance with micro-movements in the back, shoulders, elbows and wrists then all upper body muscles will not tense whether I'm reaching as near as the tab key or as far as the phone. I can't type efficiently with my shoulders anchored to the chair back, let alone wrists anchored to the desk (although I am guilty of adopting this slouched posture from time to time when despondently mouse-wheeling through a forum full of garbage answers hidden amongst the advertising). You can also try standing at the keyboard, which I find surprisingly comfortable (at proper height like on the kitchen bench of course). -- Thomas
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Re: [OT] Developer keyboard
Heya David, I've tried and own many keyboards (bit of a junkie). I have a couple of Microsoft Ergonomic ones, I've tried a few mechanical ones, and I've also got a few weirdish ones (microsoft arc, kenesis freestyle split keyboard (split down the middle as two x half keyboards)). My favourite is by far the Filco Majestictouch Tenkeyless with the Blue Cherry switches. It's a mechanical keyboard with Cherry switches, and this particular keyboard has no keypad, or other junk buttons (email/paint/etc) AusPCMarket sell them in Aus and provide pretty good service. I use the Filco probably 80% of the time, and a Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard the other 20%. What I really disliked about the Ergonomic one was the Keypad as well as I found that reaching for the mouse started to become a problem. Given that, their new one looks interesting. I also found the new keyboard on Amazon, but it looks like neither they, or anyone else is shipping. I'm currently in Manhattan returning to Australia on Thursday (leaving Tuesday here time) and if anyone knows where I can buy the new MS keyboard locally and wants one, I can probably pick a few up and bring them back to Straya (one for myself too!). Cheers, -- Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au Quoting David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com: A bit off topic and a bit on topic. I've been in the market for a good developer keyboard for a while but never seem to find anything I like. I was just wondering if others on this list had found a decent keyboard. A few qualifying points: I don't want a number pad or at least I don't want one on the right of the keyboard. Not that I have anything against them, I just want my mouse to be closer. I've tested this using a cheap (and crappy) laptop like keyboard and there is a noticeable difference in comfort. I can just as easily by a separate number pad keyboard to position elsewhere. I would prefer the cursor keys and the other navigation keys to be in a reasonable location. My crappy keyboard as some of these along the bottom. It also sacrificed the right Control key in favour of a Scroll Lock key. Who uses scroll lock any more? I don't like those ergonomic keyboards that split the keyboard to be comfortable for two hands. I don't know about the rest of you but I spend at least as much time with one hand on the mouse and the other on the keyboard as I do with both hands on the keyboard. So the ergonomic aspects are actually a hindrance when typing with one hand. I don't care about media buttons or any other specific use button. I never user them. They just make the keyboard bigger. 20% of the keys on my current keyboard will never be used. Obviously I want the keys to be comfortable to use 8 hours a day. The recently announce keyboard from microsoft is fairly close to what I'm looking for: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/microsofts-new-ergonomic-keyboard-is-just-plain-weird-looking/ But it's ergonomic style is a bit of a negative. Any thoughts? David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama
Re: [OT] Developer keyboard
I've done some more searching. I can't believe it never occurred to me to include compact as a keyword when searching for these keyboards. Has anyone used either of these keyboards? http://shopap.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/auweb/LenovoPortal/en_AU/integration.workflow:ProductDisplayItem?IsBundle=falseGroupID=460Code=0B47190sb=:01CC:4A46:hide_menu_area=yescid=au|cse|df|myshopping|101CA_6C15C=1924906834 or shortened: http://goo.gl/TXvTyx Lenovo thinkpad compact I think its called. It looks ok and has the right layout. Although it seems to have laptop style keys. It also seems far more expensive than it should be. This one (logitech k340) still has the number pad so I'm not so sure: http://www.logitech.com/en-sg/product/6007?crid=26 I grabbed one of these (logitech k230) for $23 from office works on the way home last night. Again it still has the number pad but it is more compact. http://www.logitech.com/en-au/product/wireless-keyboard-k230 It's not a great keyboard but my mouse is a little closer. Worse case I'll delegate it to a couch keyboard. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama
Re: [OT] Developer keyboard
Thanks Les, that looks pretty good. Going by reviews it might be exactly what I'm looking for. Although I'd get the brown switches as I prefer not to have any clicking sound. If the keys feel good to use I'll be happy. And a place nearby sells them for $149. I think I'll go get one :) David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 16 August 2013 09:48, l...@datarev.com.au wrote: Heya David, I've tried and own many keyboards (bit of a junkie). I have a couple of Microsoft Ergonomic ones, I've tried a few mechanical ones, and I've also got a few weirdish ones (microsoft arc, kenesis freestyle split keyboard (split down the middle as two x half keyboards)). My favourite is by far the Filco Majestictouch Tenkeyless with the Blue Cherry switches. It's a mechanical keyboard with Cherry switches, and this particular keyboard has no keypad, or other junk buttons (email/paint/etc) AusPCMarket sell them in Aus and provide pretty good service. I use the Filco probably 80% of the time, and a Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard the other 20%. What I really disliked about the Ergonomic one was the Keypad as well as I found that reaching for the mouse started to become a problem. Given that, their new one looks interesting. I also found the new keyboard on Amazon, but it looks like neither they, or anyone else is shipping. I'm currently in Manhattan returning to Australia on Thursday (leaving Tuesday here time) and if anyone knows where I can buy the new MS keyboard locally and wants one, I can probably pick a few up and bring them back to Straya (one for myself too!). Cheers, -- Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au Quoting David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com**: A bit off topic and a bit on topic. I've been in the market for a good developer keyboard for a while but never seem to find anything I like. I was just wondering if others on this list had found a decent keyboard. A few qualifying points: I don't want a number pad or at least I don't want one on the right of the keyboard. Not that I have anything against them, I just want my mouse to be closer. I've tested this using a cheap (and crappy) laptop like keyboard and there is a noticeable difference in comfort. I can just as easily by a separate number pad keyboard to position elsewhere. I would prefer the cursor keys and the other navigation keys to be in a reasonable location. My crappy keyboard as some of these along the bottom. It also sacrificed the right Control key in favour of a Scroll Lock key. Who uses scroll lock any more? I don't like those ergonomic keyboards that split the keyboard to be comfortable for two hands. I don't know about the rest of you but I spend at least as much time with one hand on the mouse and the other on the keyboard as I do with both hands on the keyboard. So the ergonomic aspects are actually a hindrance when typing with one hand. I don't care about media buttons or any other specific use button. I never user them. They just make the keyboard bigger. 20% of the keys on my current keyboard will never be used. Obviously I want the keys to be comfortable to use 8 hours a day. The recently announce keyboard from microsoft is fairly close to what I'm looking for: http://arstechnica.com/**gadgets/2013/08/microsofts-** new-ergonomic-keyboard-is-**just-plain-weird-looking/http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/microsofts-new-ergonomic-keyboard-is-just-plain-weird-looking/ But it's ergonomic style is a bit of a negative. Any thoughts? David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama
Re: [OT] Windows Server 2012
I'm ok with it. Works quite nicely on my servers and I have heaps of them but no production on HyperV, only staging and only remote desktop which works ok. My main issue is that RPD keeps dropping out if I do nothing. If I use it it's all good and fast but if I leave it open for 3-4minutes it's dead and I have to reconnect On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, does anyone else think that Windows 2012 Server is really weird? I was playing with it last night for the first serious time and think it's like a crippled blend of bits of other versions of Windows. I've got it running inside Hyper-V where it boots to the desktop and you can barely do anything there except run Server Manager. I can't use the Windows key (due to Hyper-V) to get to the Start screen or show the Windows+X fake menu, so after booting I'm bogged at the desktop and can't do anything. I have to go full-screen to enable the Windows key and navigate around (which is a nuisance). From inside Server manager you can Click Manage and Tools to open many Admin tools, but not the familiar Control Panel apps. Even Server Manager is a weird app unlike other admin tools, and it's so hard to scroll around it and find things. Is anyone actually using Windows 2012 Server in anger? It doesn't seem to fit in anywhere, like a hallucination that was released by accident. Greg K
