deskthority

Feeling nostalgic.

I had to bid farewell to Mozilla Thunderbird. For years it has had the bug where it doesn't notify you about new emails when it's running in the background. In 2014, they still haven't fixed it.

For me, this is 50 % of what an email client is supposed to do. Honestly, it feels sad to give up ...

ZTree. Fastest way to manipulate files, been using it for the last 15 or so years (was ZTreeBold back then Used XTree before that.)

The NewEgg video is pretty open about it, the guy even spells Kailh For $100 not a bad board IMHO, I'll check out what makes it tick in a little while...

Muirium wrote:Meanwhile there's always been diacritical dead keys on the Mac, and Apple recently added this when you hold down a letter:

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(Retina screenshots are loud!)

Solution here

Muirium wrote:Made in Taiwan, and their ad copy bangs on about quality, as does everyone's. Let's see if they can prove it.

I have my doubts -- lasered ABS keys will not last as long as the switches are supposed to

And here is the result:

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Probably going to swap them out w/ a Granite set ...

Thanks for the tip. I got a tiny neodymium magnet I just have to point in the general direction of the reed switch ;) Only needed to do it once so far, the firmware has a hotkey to start the bootloader.

Replaced the dim blue LED's w/ seriously green ones that are way brighter for more dynamic range ...

Bummer. I just swapped out the browns w/ a white/green mix in one of my QFR's (see here), it's not very hard if you have some soldering experience and the equipment. White and Green switches have the same weight (same springs), the difference is in the click (whites - soft, greens - like blues.)

bexleycorona wrote:I ended up going for the CM QFR.

Congratulations, a good choice IMHO (I have three of them ). Now you may want to check this out

Whoa, controller came in the mail today. That was exceptionally quick:

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Besides a bug in sorting out the column bits the software worked "out-of-the-box" (not bad ...

Herr, die Not ist groß!
Die ich rief, die Geister,
werd' ich nun nicht los.

Story of my life...

Same thing w/ a Rosewill RK-9000 this time:

Fresh out of the box:

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http://s30.postimg.org/3tl6qxi19/MG_1243_2.jpg ...

i'm curious are these a limited run or will SP continuously make them??

My guess would be "limited":

Last year we at SP jumped the gun in producing an order for which we never received payment. As a result we are left with a large quantity of DSA Dolch keycap sets that we want to make available ...

whitecitadel wrote:P.S. Did someone say Teensy and soldering iron?

Yea Details here.

Eszett wrote:A red escape key is a gewgaw. How about a “raid”-Key, which erases the harddisk securely, while police officers are approaching to your house? Then, the red color would fit that button.

No need really. TrueCrypt FTW

Smallest AVR I would use is a ATmega16u2. You don't want to miss that USB module, V-USB is a PITA.

Hm, I would be interested in the 60% Companion (already got a hacked Scorpius-32), kit is no problem and I already have code for it if the CPU is AVR based. :) An option to have it all 1x keys would be nice. Personally I prefer the case flush w/ the plate (or where the plate would be if it doesn't ...

Got my new soldering station today, a BK3000LF (added three tips for SMD work: 0.2mm conical, 1mm chisel, 2mm flow type -- should cover most scenarios.) Tested it by de-soldering the switches from a CM Storm Quickfire Rapid (MX Brown, eew) and soldering new ones in. Took about 2hrs overall ...

AFAIK WASD changed to pad printing + UV coating. (yep, see here.)

[…] and everyone here says they would spell it "backspace".

Seeing how many people are unaware of the difference between "its" and "it’s", I wouldn’t take that as a reference.

Maybe in the non-native english speaking world, all native english speakers around here (except me) :P

Set look's ...

[BS] now it's one word.
Thanks, looks much better ! 8-)

I wasn't looking forward to have a "spelling error" pointed out to me every time someone walks by my desk (no kidding -- I had to replace an SP cap because of this, got too annoying. Freaking spelling nerds ;)) I believe you are right in ...

"Back Space" or BACK SPACE" looks broken to me (AFAIK Eszett is correct -- it's one word in english.) Always bothered me about SP caps. GMK/Cherry uses "Backspace", so does Logitech, Leopold, IBM, Unicomp, Ducky, and many, many others. Including SP's Cherry legends.

Edit: using sets designed by ...

Der Kontroller kann das ohne grössere Programmänderungen nur wenn Du [Strg] auf [Alt] und [Q] auf [F4] umdefinierst -- die Interpretation von Kombinationen passiert normalerweise im PC, auf Kontrollerebene sind üblicherweise alle Tasten gleich.

Was die Firmware angeht sind "Modifier" Tasten (Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Win) auch nur Tasten. Erst der PC macht aus Shift+Y ein kleines y. Dh., der Kontroller kennt im Normalfall keine Tastenkombinationen (läßt sich natürlich hacken, ist aber nicht ganz einfach.)

Korrekt. Der Kontroller übersetzt die Matrix-Position in eine sog. "USB Usage" (oder "Scancode" für PS/2). Der PC übersetzt das dann in ein Zeichen.

The duck is always in demand…

Would be willing to trade the Duck for the Glider from the Nerdom kit.

Deal! Hold that bird!

Locked 8-)

Don't worry about transoceanic shipping. My brother's in California and will be looking after these caps for me.

Excellent since I'm in Oregon :) I'll PM ...

Muirium wrote:The duck is always in demand…

Would be willing to trade the Duck for the Glider from the Nerdom kit.

You could replace the QFR controller w/ a Frosty Flake -- no need for dip-switches, just change the firmware ! (available here)

nourathar wrote:hmm, have not been following cherry group buys of late, but this looks so good that I'm seriously tempted.
Did I see a final date on this one ?

About 70hrs from now.