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Building Your Own Extra-Large Keyboard

Posted by timothy on from the completely-necessary dept.

Ant writes "ModAsylum.com has an article on how to make your own extra-large homemade keyboard." Or, if you're handy with tweezers, extra-small.

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  1. Modern crappy keyboards by Biotech9 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've noticed a trend from the last few years. As PC companys like dell and gateway stuck little extra 'multimedia' keys on the top of the keyboard, they also slowly began to shrik key size.

    It was slightly noticeable that the 'full size' keyboard on my powerbook was bigger than the one on my girlfriends PC, but the kicker came when i dug my old Amiga 500 out of storage. The keyboard seemed so massive!

    So i ended up taking a very old keyboard from a server in my attic and using that. It's so old it has no windows keys, and the big clunky keys are heavenly compared to the modern flat logitect styles.

  2. Re:Old fart keyboards by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is this like those gigantic fucking calculators and phones with big buttons that are designed for old people? Computers designed for old people....hmmmm.

    Don't be so smug. One say you too will be old, and when you are, the kids with their direct brain computer interfaces will look at you type on your small keyboard and use your small calculator and say "hmm, move on Grandpa".

    Respect your elders, you'll be one too some day.

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. Re:Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Slashdot should have some sort or mirror support for linked pages.

    you must be new here :)

  4. Account for domain modasylum.com has been... by MadMan2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Account for domain modasylum.com has been suspended" is the cryptic message now appearing on the site. It thus appears that the site has either been hijacked by some uncanny aliens, or has been impounded by the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and the Home Security Dept for revealing Pres. Bush's equipment (in which case I'm wondering about his mouse ;-))

    However, what I wanted to say is the following:
    It isn't the first time that a site has been slashdotted to such an effect. In this case the number of hits were so extraordinary that the provider decided to close the site.
    I don't think this was the sitemakers' intention. Nor slashdot's. Or was it?

    Isn't it time we start wondering about the ethics of showing mentioning certain sites?
    For example: some amateurs invent something new for fun. Due to the slashdot effect their allocated and paid for bandwith is drastically drained because some nerd or other thought this might be fun to mention on /. Is it not a good idea for the /.-team to quickly mirror the small sites so that, in the event of the site being ./-ted, the authors at least have the pleasure of having their work, plan, initiative still shown (even though the price of ./-fame is the closing of their account)?

    In other words: does ./ have an ethical responibility towards smalltime websites being shown?

    Let's ponder on this for awhile...

    MadMan
    --
    What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life? (A. Einstein, Memoirs)

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    Peace & Long Life,
    MadMan-2