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Apparently many others got a call from "Rick"...and are fighting back!

https://www.onthewire.io/phone-bot-to-t ... -scammers/

If you were looking for something to spend that bonus money on. Love those triple shots

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Vintage-IBM-29-Interpreting-Card-Punch-Machine-/172481677067?

Speaking of big money (maybe not so big...) here's your chance to own a piece of art

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Jef ...

WARNING: verbose reply. Italians are verbose, you know :lol:

all I need is:

- auto TOC
- automatically keep track of chapters
- possibly bookmarks
- bold, italic, quote, code block, headings, lists
- footnotes
- hint and warning box
- code syntax highlight
- easy way to handle attachments ...

matt3o wrote: I was exploring latex, but it's quite intimidating... thanks for the suggestions anyway

Yes, it can make coffee too. Most of engineering students get to know it for their thesis. Most of their thesis become 'learning LaTeX'

Exporting nicely between all those formats require a very robust format from the start... DocBook might work for sure, obviously if you don't want to go down the LaTeX pit ;)

I have recently used publican ( https://fedorahosted.org/publican/ ) which is based on docbook: it's the format used on all ...

Yeah if I knew exactly what dry lube Alps Electric used I'd lube some of my white Alps SKCM just out of curiosity.

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I guess some of you Alps aficionados already tried to ask them ;)

https://www4.alps.co.jp/inquiry/inqcatalog?lang=en

Nobody at Alps couldn't remember or was it ...

First photo of the three: does the 'contraption' on the bottom contains some liquid? Makes me think about some kind of 'mercury switch' mechanism ... but aren't those just for detonating bombs on hollywood movies?

Chyros wrote:

vaxxi wrote: Uni Kuru Toga - best described here and here. It spins the lead as you write in order to make sure the line width is consistent, quite a clever mechanism.

Yeah, that's the exact one I use . They're not too expensive and pretty comfortable to use.

...and now I want one!!

Well I'm sure it works differently in southern Italy ;)

You can take all the keyboards you want but ... One day, the Don of the recycling center will come forward and ask you to return him the favour.

sure! I can bolt mod the Don's IBM model M(afia) keyboard! :lol:

...and get bolt modded myself ...

Seriously? I just go up to the guys in my normal clothes (which are so casual you can barely imagine it) and go "hey guys, how's it going, have you got any old keyboards by any chance?" :p

I know all the guys at my recycling centres very well now, you get very friendly with them over time ...

That's something I wanted to ask since I joined DT! how do you approach recycling centers?did you just knock on the door and ask if you can scavenge? or would it be better to offer some free hours of work in exchange? I have written an email to a recycling nearby (North East Italy here) and I didn't ...

I can add something: I made an account on viabox.com after a small survey. viabox (they're not the only one...) has a warehouse in Oregon to avoid some selling fees ( see here: https://www.viabox.com/shoppers.php ). For custom fees you can read their FAQ. Long story short: custom fees are still ...

Thanks for you reply! dhl 5$ cheaper on usgobuy

Hi everyone! I would like to buy those from Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Vortex-White-Doubleshot-Keycaps-blue-infill/dp/B00XA71BQC

sadly they don't ship them to Italy. I was thinking about using a proxy service like shipto.com (no experiences about, the first one that pops out in Google ...

Very nice indeed

I imagine pressing the "RICH AIUTO" (maybe "Richiedi Aiuto" == "Call for Help") and suddenly have a SWAT team entering the window!!

I feel that not everyone who loves mechanical keyboards does so out of nostalgia . I have a lot of respect for old keyboards that are built for the ages, like IBMs. But I never actually used them when they were the standard.


I got hooked in getting to know the feeling of all (not literally ...

Funny. I was thinking about making such a poll 2 days ago :) anyway I think it will be interesting to understand what brings the younger ones into mechanical keyboards since I'm quite sure for us "differently young" (47 on next march 18th here...) nostalgia plays a significant role...or is it? I ...

cool!

Just for the record: you ALL that replied to me were right! I managed to pull off the CTRL key, wiggling a bit, using a self made keypuller Alps (clone?) switches.

Thanks for the answers! I will try (harder ) this evening.

Hi all! First time poster here...
I found this (and others ;) keyboard on a e-waste dump yesterday but I cannot pull a single keycap to identify what kind of switches it uses. The pcb started to bend :( and i don't want to break it! I suspect they are some kind of Alps (I can see the stem is white ...