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[ewx]

Some time ago I was asking about sentences with all 26 letters of the alphabet exactly once. I've since acquired a couple of extra dead keyboards, so I now have much more flexibility in this. (I thought rearranging the keys on a dead keyboard in some interesting way would be a better use for it than occupying space in a landfill.) Though a single-keyboard possibility would be a ROT13'd keyboard.

I haven't actually done anything about this tho...

Comments

[kjaneway.livejournal.com]

Moving keys on dead keyboards is a popular passtime, it seems...

From the set of Stargate SG-1. (http://photos.geah.org/cgi-bin/frame.cgi/2003/gatecon/hd04.jpg)

[teleute.livejournal.com]

you could move them around and investigate how long it takes you to get used to a new arrangement. Or, more entertainily, you could switch just two letters around and give the keyboard to someone else and see how long it took them to figure out :-)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I expect they'd smell a rat pretty quick, these are broken keyboards in the first place...

[gerald_duck]

ethelthefrog permuted the caps on his keyboard in the office.

He didn't reconfigure the keyboard layout as far as the computer was concerned, though. When I needed to type at his PC, he seemed quite upset that I didn't even notice what he'd done.

[(Anonymous)]

#define Swap(a,A,n,N) \
~Ctrl ~Shift Lock a: string(N) \n\
~Ctrl ~Lock Shift a: string(N) \n\
~Ctrl Shift Lock a: string(n) \n\
~Ctrl ~Shift ~Lock a: string(n) \n
~Ctrl ~Shift Lock n: string(A) \n\
~Ctrl ~Lock Shift n: string(A) \n\
~Ctrl Shift Lock n: string(a) \n\
~Ctrl ~Shift ~Lock n: string(a) \n

*VT100.Translations: #override F1: keymap(rot13)

*VT100.rot13Keymap.Translations: \
F1: keymap(None) \n\
Swap(a,A,n,N) \
Swap(b,B,o,O) \
Swap(c,C,p,P) \
Swap(d,D,q,Q) \
Swap(e,E,r,R) \
Swap(f,F,s,S) \
Swap(g,G,t,T) \
Swap(h,H,u,U) \
Swap(i,I,v,V) \
Swap(j,J,w,W) \
Swap(k,K,x,X) \
Swap(l,L,y,Y) \
Swap(m,M,z,Z)

[(Anonymous)]

Oops, that got mangled. The top bit should read: ~Ctrl ~Shift Lock <Key>a: string(N) \n\ etc.

[teleute.livejournal.com]

could you get a new one and switch the keys on that? I might have to have someone teach me and do that to Adrians...