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Stephen Jay Gould relates in his collected essays Bully for Brontosaurus (W.W. Norton, 1991) that the characters on the QWERTY keyboard were deliberately set to be inconvenient, thus ensuring slower typing speeds. The reason was simple. Typists using the earliest mechanical typewriters could reach such high speeds that the keys were frequently jamming. Unfortunately, the effect could not be seen by the typists until they removed the page whereupon the entire sheet had to be retyped. Subsequently, as Gould puts it, by some strange “technological continuity law” in common with historical and biological evolution, the QWERTY keyboard survived into the age of electronic keyboards, despite the fact that the jamming problem was no longer relevant. All recent attempts to create a mass market for more efficient keyboards - for example, the Dvorak keyboard, on which typists can achieve touch typing speeds about 40 per cent faster than on QWERTY keyboards - were stonewalled. __________ On your keyboard, press Windows + I. Select Time & language. On the left pane, click Region & language. Under Languages, highlight English (United States), then click Options. Under Keyboards, click Add a keyboard. Choose United States-Dvorak. Close the settings. good luck with that.
What a joy it was having Bill Marshall / Marshman joining me for The Drive in Cat5's hometown of Barrie, Ontario! A lot has changed in 6 years, and both Barrie and Category5 continue to grow! Be sure to post your comments and give a thumbs up to thank Bill for the visit. Thanks for watching! 🥰
what happens if I accidentally turned off my raspberry pi, would it not work anymore? because that's exactly what happened, how do I turn the server back on?
Keep Connect Router Rebooter works very well too. And has a cloud service ($29.99/year) where you can keep track of all your routers. You can manually restart them, or even program scheduled reboots, to keep the router running smoothly. $49.99 for the unit.
Too complicated. Should pass the internet signal through the smart plug so if no internet detected it will power down all Routers,modems, etc so that they will re-set.
I am in no way affiliated to Microsoft and confess to sometimes disliking their attitude to customers. Having used both MS Office (now Microsoft 365) and LibreOffice (currently 24.2.5 for Windows 64-bit), there really is no comparison. Microsoft 365 is in a different league, much more powerful and polished. The cost of Microsoft 365 for a family subscription, in which 5 people have access to the full suite, is quite reasonable. Although the LibreOffice suite of applications is free, and it offers some good points, in no way is it close to Microsoft 365's functionality, speed and ease of use. I use LibreOffice because I like trying out different applications, but when I run into a problem with it that takes too much time to resolve, I immediately go to 365 for the solution.
Jeff, you wouldn't want to buy ameriDroid if 15% gross margin is too little for you. 😅 We cut it too close to the bone to give our customers a great deal in a very competitive market while also providing exceptional customer service. We're definitely not getting rich doing this. 🙂
😩 Is it sustainable? Offering great service is adding value. 15% margin on a $100 sale is $13. Keep your lights on and pay your staff a fair wage... $13 doesn't go far. How do we maintain the level of service, and the level of integrity, while still being able to ensure our employees are fairly compensated and feel appreciated? These are things the consumers often forget when shopping around for the lowest price. But it's a very real challenge for us business owners. How are you overcoming it? My technique is to sell services that carry a very high margin. This allows me to offer excellent service to the customer purchasing it, but gives me the financial freedom to also care for "the little guy" too.
@@LinuxTechShow We believe we are at a sustainable level. We rely on a lot of automation on the back office side and high volumes to keep our costs down, plus we cut our overhead by sharing those costs with another business run out of the same facility.
NOW you're talking. This is the way. Share resources, share staff. Category5 + NEMS Linux + Nip it in the Bot + all my other adventures... this is how we survive and ensure we're offering diverse services to keep the lights on when any one of our ventures struggle.
VPN for the win. I've been doing this since getting hit by a zero-day on RDP. There are newer options that also provide limited access to the network depending on the user's permissions. BTW, that zero-day also hastened my 100% switch to Linux.
@@Ameridroid1 I'm sorry you had to learn the hard way, but glad you learned all the same. Fortunately I had the opportunity as a young tech to learn from a few customers who thought they knew better and could "do it cheaper": I was there to pick up the pieces. So my own infrastructure has always been a bit ahead of the curve as far as "security first" goes (knock on wood).
Data Drive Drinking Game (For When You're Parked) 🍺 Take a drink every time Jeff says "You Know" - NO DRIVING afterward! HAHA what are you trying to say Robbie!?
One thing that has annoyed me when I first heard the term "cloud computing" was thinking they just relabeled and updated the concept of a "mainframe", which has been around since the beginning of the commercial computing revolution. Simpler forms of cloud computing are just an Internet-enabled NAS.
@@Ameridroid1 💯 to those of us who have been in the industry for 15 or more years, it's not a paradigm shift whatsoever. Just a faster uplink, faster professor and larger capacity: a natural evolution, not a shift.
Nice video! Been thinking about getting one of these, was hoping it could do active PoE in as well as active PoE out but it can't. Can only do passive PoE in. Also, don't want to be that guy to complain but was kind of thinking your ratio on your ULTRAMIZER PRO with the fast attack is a bit hard on the ears when it engages, with headphones at least. Just my perspective.
I'm curious if the Raspberry Pi 4 is required, especially with 8gb of ram. I've got a 3 b+ and I'd love to be able to support a public server for me and my friends (6 of us) including mods and shaders (I'm not sure if that requires more compute power in this case).
@@just8bits29 The minimum requirements are clearly outlined on the GitHub Readme. The Raspberry Pi 3 B+ is too underpowered: You'd never be able to enjoy the gameplay with all the lag.
when i close the screen with screen -R pinecraft, it doesnt close the screen, but rather opens up a new screen. i cant update the server until all screens are closed. Please help!
The 1380 have a sort of oval bass port, isn't that against some kind of audio nature? Bass is less tight compared to 1280 from what I can hear on youtube videos. Could that be the culprit?
Apple added USB C because of EU regulation and not UK regulation. Jeff keeps saying North American but I get the feeling he means US when making negative comments.
Thanks for the clarifications. Yeah, I (Robbie) will often make the EU-vs-UK error, but hopefully you get what I mean. North American, however, could include Canada. We certainly see a lot of the same disposable mindset around tech north of the border.
Hello Robbie Ferguson, I have a problem with updating to the new version. I am currently on version 1.20.4, but I would like to update to version 1.21. When I pressed Enter at the splash screen, I received the following message: "Your installed version of Java (17) can only support up to Minecraft 1.20.4. To install a newer version of Minecraft, please see the Pinecraft documentation to obtain the recommended Base OS." Is there any guide available, or could someone help me with this? Thank you very much for your informative videos, and I wish you all the best. Best regards, Sven
