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I enjoy your APOD postings. Keep it up! 
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Today, I replaced my venerable, antiquated, near falling apart, ten year-old mouse and keyboard with a new LogiTech G910 kb, and a LogiTech G602 mouse. I almost feel I should bury the old kit with some kind of farewell ceremony in thanks for their long service.
I went for the G910 partly because, after trying various types of key-action mechanisms, I decided I liked the Romer-G switches more than I did the available models with Cherry MX switches, and (major factor) the Thai equivalent to NewEgg had a special on the 910 that made it substantially cheaper than other better-quality keyboards from Corsair, and other vendors. Of course, I studied the reviews of the different keyboards, trying to find reviews not written for hard-core gamers.
Adjusting to both will take some time; the mouse feels quite natural, the keyboard is requiring more attention to my fingers' (fast) speed-typing.
I'm not a gamer, and I wasn't aware of the fancy lighting capabilities of this keyboard, and I am rather amazed by them: but, why would I ever want my keyboard to run an animation where it cycles through the spectrum of colors moving from left to right across the keys ? Well, okay, that does save the cost of a lava-light, I guess 
Whether I'll find a use for nine dedicated macro-keys each of which can store 3 macros, is also ... uhhhh ... up in the air, as is whether I'll ever mess around with mouse's gamer features.
The one strange thing ... and, this keyboard did not come with an alternate set of Thai characters on the keyboard ... is that the keyboard maps the shifted quote key to produce the at-sign, and shifted 2 key to double-quote. And, shifted 3 produces the British Pound character. I've gone into Win 10 and checked that the Language is set to American English, not British. The tilde key produces: ` unshifted and ¬ shifted.
@It's like this when I try to use a double-quote, and C-Sharp becomes C£.@ The at-sign now: "
I'm sure I'll find some software trick to undo this re-mapping, perhaps by asking LogiTech a support question.
There is always a price to be paid when you ... upgrade, but, I'm not complaining ... yet.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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BillWoodruff wrote: but, I'm not complaining ... yet.
It's good to get yourself ready so as not to cause to much a shock to your system.
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Do you mean that SHIFT+3 gives £, and SHIFT+' (two right from "L") gives @ ?
If so, that's a UK layout. Which OS are you using?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I remember my favorite keyboard. I had a Tandy 1000 (8086) with a mechanical keyboard. It felt so great, I loved typing on it. I miss those days of typing away at the DOS prompt and programming in Turbo Pascal. 
Many respects to your old kit. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: Tandy 1000 (8086)
My first machine, well the 8088. Old skool.
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah, I really liked mechanical keyboards. My first was a Teletype Model 15 attached to a homebrew 8080 system using the S-100 bus. When the keyboard got really dirty, we used to take it out of the teletype and run it through the rinse cycle of the dishwasher and re-oil it.
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BillWoodruff wrote: The one strange thing ... and, this keyboard did not come with an alternate set of Thai characters on the keyboard ... is that the keyboard maps the shifted quote key to produce the at-sign, and shifted 2 key to double-quote. And, shifted 3 produces the British Pound character. I've gone into Win 10 and checked that the Language is set to American English, not British. The tilde key produces: ` unshifted and ¬ shifted.
Your language is set to American English, but is your keyboard layout set that way? I think they're distinct settings.
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BillWoodruff wrote: he keyboard maps the shifted quote key to produce the at-sign, and shifted 2 key to double-quote. And, shifted 3 produces the British Pound character
Control Panel > Region and Language > Keyboard and Language > Change Keyboard.
Don't be tempted by the US International keyboard, it turns all your quote marks into accents.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As others have remarked, there are two distinct 'languages' at play - your machine will display in Mercan, but you need to set up your keyboard layout to Mercan too.
veni bibi saltavi
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you're about to post a very long reply in the forums, and your wifi suddenly stops working [^]
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Yeah, this is really an issue. However, wifi stopping is
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: you're about to post a very long reply in the forums, and your wifi suddenly stops working
and you'd very uncomfortably delayed going to the restrooms to finish typing the post and . . .
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...when you submit, it errors due to connectivity and your post was gone and started to tell yourself:
Do compose long replies on notepad next time
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: Do compose long replies on notepad next time
If I've spent any effort at all on a reply I always copy to Notepad...just in case! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: I always copy to Notepad
Good.
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: you're about to post a very long reply in the forums,
Sounds like the Universe is sparing the rest of us. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
modified 9-Sep-16 10:46am.
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Quote: Sounds like the Universe the Force is sparing the rest of us
FTFY 
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What? The Insider News post wasn't good enough? 
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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I knew I'd seen it somewhere before, but I thought it might have been through idle browsing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: idle browsing.
Oxymoron?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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ITYM tautology.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You cannot say that again.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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ITYM repetition.
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