Re: tlug: US student moving to Tokyo

[Rex Walters <rex@example.com>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 09:48:07AM +0900, Marcus Metzler wrote:
>
> Oh come on that`s nothing. The CMOS setup is always in English (I
> don`t say that it shouldn`t be) and it assumes a U.S. keymap, so you
> are in trouble if you have a German keyboard and try to press Y to
> confirm the changes you made and the computer doesn`t react because it 
> gets a Z und you don`t know what`s happening :). I know a couple of
> people who never figured that one out.

My only experience on a German keyboard was at Cebit in Hannover this
year.  It took me about 20 telnet/ssh hops through firewalls and proxies
before I could finally check my mail in Japan.  The key lag was several
hundred milliseconds.  It was comical watching me "tzpe".  I gave up
trying to reply to anything after a while and just read my mail.  :-)

Tschuess (or however you spell it!)
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Rex
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