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From: Brantley Coile <bwc@borf.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dvorak
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:21:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a716c34372c96c652082e7bbd63b641@borf.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0113f1446c06f21032696bab382d7b65@9srv.net>

>it's also much fun to set the system back to qwerty and have the
>keycaps bear no relationship to what shows up on the screen...

I helped a friend debug a program that worked while he was sitting
down, but didn't while he was standing up.  We spend about 30 minutes
puzzing over this until I noticed that someone has swapped two
of his key caps.  While he was sitting he touch typed and while
he was standing he was hunting and pecking, and hitting the
incorrect key.

I don't think we were the first to have this mysterious bug.

 Brantley


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-22 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-21 13:46 [9fans] simple keyboard question Hugo Santos
2003-12-21 17:07 ` Rob Pike
2003-12-21 21:00   ` [9fans] dvorak Michael Baldwin
2003-12-22  9:48     ` a
2003-12-22 14:21       ` Brantley Coile [this message]
2003-12-22 23:43         ` Adrian Tritschler
2003-12-23  6:38           ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-23 15:15           ` jpc
2003-12-23 16:28             ` Rob Pike
2003-12-23 20:07               ` Joel Salomon
2003-12-23 20:40                 ` Richard Miller
2003-12-23 23:53           ` Steve Kilbane
2003-12-21 21:14   ` [9fans] simple keyboard question Rasputin
2003-12-22  7:20   ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-21 22:14 ` Hugo Santos
2003-12-22  8:43   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-06-19 15:04 [9fans] Dvorak presotto
2000-06-18 21:07 Hiroki Tamakoshi
2000-06-18 20:10 James A. Robinson

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