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  1. Why aren't the ... on Review of Das Keyboard · · Score: 1

    ins/del/pgup/pgdn etc keys on the left side of keyboards more often? I have a "Goldtouch" ergonomic keyboard with those extra keys on the left, the 2 windows keys are in the top right corner and the thing has a ball joint between the two halves to allow you to get the best angle for your wrists, not just the fixed angle that MS specifies. The two things it gives up are a dedicated numeric keypad and and dedicated F11/F12 keys (available through a Fn lock, like laptops.) The cursor keys are on the right, southeast of ctrl, shift and enter. The extra keys on the left rather than right are so that you can select stuff with your right hand with the mouse, then act on it with your left. Worked well, until I decided I'd worn my right hand out so much that now I have a trackpad I use with my left hand. The keys on the Goldtouch are loud and clicky and IMHO pretty nice to type on.

  2. Re:Does anyone on Bluetooth Gets a Speed Boost · · Score: 1

    I use it. The new H700 headset I have works great with my Cingular Motorola RAZR. And, it's the easiest way for me to get contacts from my Axim XV50 to my RAZR. I didn't have any trouble setting it up. The thing I don't like is the OBEX (object exchange) interface that only lets me send one contact at a time (as far as I can tell). I also use it to offload pictures I take with the phone to the AXIM.

    (I specifically dropped verizon and got cingular because of the way verizon cripples the data functions of bluetooth on the razr and their other bluetooth (in)capable phones).

  3. Re:Google. on The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites · · Score: 1

    You can get movie showtimes for your area from the front page. Type in "V for Vendetta" and your zipcode into the search box and the first results will be showtimes in your area. You don't even need another click. Theaters and showtimes are right at the top of the results page. If you check out the Google SMS service, you'll get a good idea of other stuff you can do from the google search box, and from your phone.

  4. Re:This actually scares me on Bacteria Eat Styrofoam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you just then push the blue button and your laptop recreates itself? That's what you do when your laptop gets eaten by little red bugs...

  5. Re:Advice: Get lots of RAM on Experiences w/ Software RAID 5 Under Linux? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't have to read the data from ALL the other drives to do a Raid 5 write, but you do have to read the data that's being overwritten, and you do have to read the parity that corresponds to the data that's being overwritten. Unless, the data you are writing on a specific IO spans most or all of the data drives, then it might be cheaper to read the data that you are not overwriting and create a whole new stripe of data. I AM (and have been for 13 years a RAID developer), but not for LINUX.