Qwerty → Dvorak: how can this be done

    For once, he decided not to touch anyone, but to fix the primus stove. In the sense - to fix the old bug, or come up with a new one. It didn’t work ... If you remove all the exclamation marks from the analyst’s letter, the oil painting seemed quite ordinary. The product deadline was lost in the past, somewhere in the middle of the Mesozoic era. The programmer responsible for shipping the software to this deadline has worked remotely for the past two months, then has not worked remotely and is now close to dismissal. At work does not appear. The client is waiting for something (completeness is not defined) for that large piece of iron in the corner (aha! Embedded platform!). In general - save, dear comrade, the universe ... It seemed that nothing portended trouble ...

    Thus, from the specific information there was a 200-kilogram device in the corner and an email programmer, from whom it was necessary to find out everything. Not much. There was also the name of the product that we transferred to this platform. But the name didn’t say anything to me, because before this incident I was working on the wrong topic. I wanted to speak out loud and emotionally, but it is forbidden to swear at the company. A fine of 500 rubles. Therefore, thousands and a half spoke quietly and went to collect the Old.

    A day later, I had a history of correspondence and a package of instructions, which should have been put into practice and collected two old projects and one more under a new processor. The workplace of the predecessor was located very close, the password for his car was, and therefore decided to go to the computer "directly from the face." The attempt to enter a password failed. Realizing that after the fifth attempt, the account will be blocked by admins, I decided to take extreme measures - to think. Checked CapsLock and layout - the norm. I entered the password two more times - it does not help. I went into the window with the name of the user and tried to type the password there. Quietly spoke out thousands of three rubles. The letters were typed quite Latin and in the correct case, but completely wrong. Somehow accidentally came up with the idea of ​​a Dvorak layout. I drove it to my computer with SUSE, printed the layout and entered the password. The first thing I got into the ControlPanel and rearranged the layout on Qwerty. You can work. The day passed in reading instructions from the Japanese, formatting a bootable USB flash drive, a war with COM port settings, and other quiet joys.



    The next day, there was a need to climb into virtual machines. But it turned out that Dvorak was again on the computer - the predecessor went remotely at night and again rearranged everything to your taste. Quietly spoke out about five thousand. A paper with a picture of Claudia fell to the floor and was thrown out by a cleaner. Five thousand more. We go to SUSE - printout of the picture - password entry - starting the virtual machine. Oppa - there is also Dvorak. And the phrase in the instructions is "I could not configure the grid." He spoke out of ten thousand. Virtual Linux machine without GUI and grid. It's not just a password to enter, here you need to raise the grid, edit configs. Once again spoke out ten thousand. This time, apparently, loudly, because someone came running to reassure. My instinct told me that it was too close to strabismus - to move my eyes from a piece of paper to the keyboard every time and painfully search for a button. To fix something in vi. Ten thousand more. I went to the admins, took the second clave. He ripped out all the buttons and inserted it as the yard needed. Oops - several buttons are not pressed. Well, it's only five hundred rubles. The Chinese brothers made the guiding grooves on these buttons with a 90-degree rotation. Apparently all the buttons to make the same Feng Shui did not allow. Okay, insert the buttons sideways. We gloss over the Russian letters with a black marker so that they do not shine.



    We connect the second keyboard to the computer, we work - beauty. The default layout on this Fedor did not change - anyway, the owner will return it back. But I don’t like vi (such a wrong Linuxoid), and therefore, before editing the network configs, I picked up mc and joe from the source — I always have them with me on a USB flash drive. Finally calmed down and went to drink coffee. Now you can go to this Fedora by ssh, and there my layout will be forever.

    How the project was assembled is another story. But I still have this magic keyboard lying around, and I shudder at the word Dvorak. And I have been working for the second year, not just with Linux, but with Linux on embedded platforms. 500 rubles.

    Herman Zyuzin,
    Department of Products for Developers

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