Re:A disaster for Europeans!
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Definitely true. I was in Croatia, and had to figure out where all the special characters were for my web-based email passwords. Then I terminaled into a Citrix server in the US, and suddenly I had a US keyboard Layout. Took me a while to figure out the change had happened....
My Problem is Lagged Screen Echo
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Looking at the keyboard to find certain buttons (usually the rarely-used ones (for me)like the ~ key) doesn't cost me that much time or significantly slow my WPM. However, I've noticed that when I'm doing something like typing in a terminal session to a remote server with poor bandwidth in between, my typing skills go all to pieces.
What (I think) happens is that when my eyes are seeing letters come up on the screen that are a character or two behind the letters that my fingers are typing to spell the word correctly, there is some sort of confusion in my "muscle memory" about what letter comes next, and I have to slow down my typing until the letters on-screen are coming up in synch with the letters my fingers are typing.
If the echo on the monitor is slower than my fingers are getting to the keys, I start misspelling everything; I think it's because my fingers are trying to type the letter that comes next according to what my eyes are seeing, rather than going by the more-concious(?) part of my brain that knows which letters have already been typed.
Has anyone else experienced this, or is it unique to the way I've learned to type? (I was forced to take keyboarding classes (on PC's) in Junior High & early High School, but my touch-typing skills sucked until I started having to type lots of papers for classes. Now, I'm reasonably fast.) Does anyone know of a way to correct it? I'm thinking that I can work off the theory of this keyboard and practice typing with my eyes closed, but without constant spell-checking, that could be rather detrimental to my career. =)
When I visited Holland (last summer), my friend had a little pocket calculator-looking thing that she put her ATM/Debit card in, entered her pin, and got her one-time-use password for her banking site. The recipient of the keylogger data isn't likely to be able to use this before she finishes that session, so who cares? It would be a pain to hang onto that calculator thingy all the time for me, but for the security involved, I'd be happy to do it. (She said this is common banking technology over there.)
Also, I (finally!) saw a commercial here in the States the other day for a bank that was advertising some sort of smart token for use with online banking. About time, I say.
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Definitely true. I was in Croatia, and had to figure out where all the special characters were for my web-based email passwords. Then I terminaled into a Citrix server in the US, and suddenly I had a US keyboard Layout. Took me a while to figure out the change had happened....
What (I think) happens is that when my eyes are seeing letters come up on the screen that are a character or two behind the letters that my fingers are typing to spell the word correctly, there is some sort of confusion in my "muscle memory" about what letter comes next, and I have to slow down my typing until the letters on-screen are coming up in synch with the letters my fingers are typing.
If the echo on the monitor is slower than my fingers are getting to the keys, I start misspelling everything; I think it's because my fingers are trying to type the letter that comes next according to what my eyes are seeing, rather than going by the more-concious(?) part of my brain that knows which letters have already been typed.
Has anyone else experienced this, or is it unique to the way I've learned to type? (I was forced to take keyboarding classes (on PC's) in Junior High & early High School, but my touch-typing skills sucked until I started having to type lots of papers for classes. Now, I'm reasonably fast.) Does anyone know of a way to correct it? I'm thinking that I can work off the theory of this keyboard and practice typing with my eyes closed, but without constant spell-checking, that could be rather detrimental to my career. =)
Also, I (finally!) saw a commercial here in the States the other day for a bank that was advertising some sort of smart token for use with online banking. About time, I say.