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From: Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>
Subject: Re: [9fans] dvorak
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Brantley Coile wrote:
>>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...
>=20
>=20
> 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.

Ouch! sneaky.

I found myself stuck in a foreign internet cafe once, unable to login to=20
my web-based email system.  I had no idea what my password was, I knew=20
what the finger pattern was to type the password - but only on a QWERTY=20
keyboard.

Whichever one you're used to, finding yourself at a different keyboard=20
is a major irritation, especially in a foreign place while paying $10=20
per hour to try and read email on a badly maintained filthy windows 98=20
PC, connected by a piece of wet string to the internet.

> I don't think we were the first to have this mysterious bug.
>=20
>  Brantley

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Adrian Tritschler                          mailto:ajft@ajft.org
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