Alex Kiesel on December 6th, 2009

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 [...]

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Alex Kiesel on December 5th, 2009

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, [...]

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Alex Kiesel on January 13th, 2009

On my Gentoo Linux at work, I’ve trying out git in the subversion locally, while committing to an SVN server. I did have issues getting the inital clone done; the repository is around 1 GB svn checkout size and contains ~89’000 revisions.

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Alex Kiesel on April 3rd, 2008

Well, it seems, I only write blog entries to try out new keyboards So – I’ve bought yet another Apple keyboard, this time the new thing metal brushed keboard. This one’s especially nice – somthing I’ve though of the other one as well. First, let me say, it’s a normal USB keyboard and it works [...]

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Alex Kiesel on July 26th, 2007

As written in another blog entry, I had found a way to remap the Alt and Apple keys in Windows. Since I did that I have mostly been using Windows and did not bother about how do to it to my Gentoo – until today.

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Alex Kiesel on April 3rd, 2007

I’ve recently bought a new keyboard, an Apple keyboard. The old one was just dirty and the cable almost broke, so I’ve decided to spend that money. There are two things that had annoyed me a bit since then: First, the Apple keyboard has the Command key which functions just like the Windows key, however [...]

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