Rapid-Fire Typing: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9)
(Rescuing 4 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9)) |
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9)) |
||
Line 176:
** Openbox? Pah. Try [http://dwm.suckless.org dwm] or any of the [[wikipedia:Tiling window manager|Tiling window managers]] for Linux/UNIX.
*** dwm? Try ratpoison. It's specifically designed to completely banish the mouse from GUIs (You can still use the mouse, but all the window management functions and then some are done purely through the keyboard. The mouse is mostly there for apps you run that won't accept any other kind of input, which is, by the way, quite rare in *nix.) and it does a pretty good job of this. dwm is downright mouse-friendly compared to ratpoison. Of course, a great deal of Linux/UNIX fans, this troper included, will sometimes eschew the use of things like the X Window System altogether and do everything, absolutely *everything,* from a console, including watching movies, thanks to the framebuffer.
* Clicky-spring keyboards such as the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131123005000/http://www.dansdata.com/ibmkeyboard.htm IBM Model M] make ''two'' clicks for every keypress due to their internal workings. This can cause unaware listeners to assume you're typing twice as fast as you really are, which can really cause some stares if you're a natural fast-typist even with normal boards.
* Combine buckling spring keyboards with people who type over 100WPM (Think 150-180 on QWERTY) with hard strikes, not only do people hear a very amplified strike and with a rapid finger lift, a return click, they'll hear the springs resonating inside the keyboard as well. Now apply that to someone writing the paper... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxjTgfGTLDo like this boy.]
* [[wikipedia:Richard Stallman|Richard Stallman]], Unix hacker and free software activist. MIT's hacker lab where he felt at home was disappearing. Most of the hackers had left for or had been hired by two competing companies—LMI and Symbolics. Stallman took exception to the last one, because they'd made a friend of his quit. So he did the only thing he could to fight it—code. For two years, from 1982 to the end of 1983, Stallman worked by himself to clone the output of the Symbolics programmers, with the aim of preventing them from gaining a monopoly on the lab's computers with their proprietary software. If that doesn't sound impressive, think of it this way: he did the programming of ten or so hackers, matching them feature for feature, only stopping to sleep. That's '''''TWO YEARS''''' of Rapid-Fire Typing. This troper has seen the special low-impact keyboard he has to use to type these days.
| |||