This is a small keyboard but the size in this case is exactly the intention. The keys are normal size and the action is very good. Some of the keys are in slightly different places than other keyboards but that hasn’t been an issue for me. The board itself is rather heavy so it stays in place. There is nothing cheap or “cheesy” feeling about using it. I may swap the function of the Delete...
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The Sacred Keyboard
I ran across this again last night as I was searching for a small keyboard for use with the computer I will be using for my amateur radio operations. There are two distinct camps. The largest is the “Windows” keyboard and the smaller group is the Apple Keyboard. If you want neither the selection becomes very small. I am looking for a UNIX keyboard! I am not talking about anything critical here. Any style keyboard...
Continue reading...A Half Terabyte More
The last 500 Gig drive, a Seagate seems to be doing very well. No clicks of death and very quite. The format was faster and in fact everything about it is faster. I’m glad because the drive that I spent more than a week in moving my 64 bit Vista install to, started to wither and die. I don’t know if it was a victim of the lighting shock but it could be as it...
Continue reading...A Dead Terabyte
I never dreamed 20 years ago I would be talking in terabytes of memory storage. It won’t be long before we start talking about RAM in that amount. What you see here is two dead 500 GB hard drives. The one on the left is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 and on the right is the just replaced (#2) Western Digital Caviar Blue. Both are a little fishy. Yes, the SECOND WD drive has just failed. It...
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