Monthly Archives: December 2009

Apple keyboard IV

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Ok, this is the last chapter from my experiments with Apple keyboards on a Windows PC. With the slim keyboard I never managed to reconfigure the “Fn” key to something useful – but that was just a side effect.

The main problems I had were that the keyboard is too small. I am a developer and heavy shortcut user, so I need to type all kinds of braces, dashes, dots and so on and also use Ctrl-Shift-PgUp and thelike. Using these key combinations is not easily manageable on the Apple keyboard.

The consequence? I have now invested 20 more €uros and bought the Logitech UltraX keyboard – which I have at work, too. This keyboard is much like a laptop keyboard, features a standard PC design and has a very nice layout and key press feedback.

Using git with cygwin on Windows

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Despite having circumvented the problems caused by the new Windows Vista UAC – as described in an older blog entry of mine and found all around the internet, git sometimes still has problems.

At work, my team collaborates with SVN and commits to our company svn server. I am using git as an SVN client, because it is more convenient for me; with no problems on my Gentoo (dev) box, but I never managed to check out on my Windows laptop.

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