Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboards Rock/Suck (the "no good Perl jobs"/"ergo keyboards" myth)

[the hatter]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Dominic Mitchell wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:33:10AM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
> > On 9 Aug 2006, at 10:21, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > [...]
> > >"You can have any key layout you like, so long as it's US!"
> >
> > You mean the way the UK keymap is the same as the US one, but they
> > swapped £ and # so you have to use alt-3 a lot when writing code?
>
> That's the one.  And the utter refusal to swap @ and ".

For anyone in the bizarre situation to care, I've got a keyboard map
for a sun uk keyboard on os x (but with caps disabled) - because I only
need one usb keyboard, and I was used to the sun one, and it's the only
one I had around when I got my mac mini.


the hatter