I've gone too far

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 14 October 2007 11:38, Scott Quinn wrote:
> Roy wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 October 2007 17:45, Tony Duell wrote:
> >>> This morning my wife complained to me that every time she opened a
> >>> door to a cupboard something with qwerty written on it  falls out !!!
> >>> oops
> >>
> >> Oh that's easy to solve. Change all your keyboards to the Dvorak
> >> (?spel) layout.
> >
> > I've seen assorted setups to change one's keyboard layout to that in
> > software, but darn it,  if I'm going there I want the keycaps too!  Which
> > I've *never* seen on anything...
>
> Get a Model M (or other decent keyboard), pop 'em off and reshuffle.
> The letter keys are generally interchangeable, the only problem would
> be a cheap keyboard that won't let them go gracefully.

I thought about that,  but the Dvorak layout requires some specific 
combinations on the non-alphanumeric keys that I wouldn't end up with,  and 
somehow the thought of little sticky labels just doesn't have much appeal...

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