[geeks] Anyone know of good sources of 5V DIMMs?

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Mon Jun 19 18:26:46 CDT 2006


Mon, 19 Jun 2006 @ 17:16 -0400, Nadine said:

> On 6/18/06, nate at portents.com <nate at portents.com> wrote:
> > BTW, it's a little-known fact that up until the Intel based MacBooks came
> > out, all the keyboards in Apple's portables were still ADB-based.
> 
> That's not accurate.  The last revs of the G4 powerbooks was USB
> based.  There was a big to-do about folks trying to get the
> "two-finger" touchpad scrolling working on the prev. revs that were
> still ADB.
> 
> A fellow who wrote a really nice piece of software to do this, some
> other keyboard hackery, and also enabled "half keyboard typing" in his
> plugin.  He was threatened by the half keyboard vendors with a lawsuit
> if he didn't disable the latter.

Did he release the code for this?

Just curious, because if he did it would be rather hard for the vendors
to do much about it, once the code is out.

Kind of like DeCSS, and all kinds of other code that is out and can't be
put back in.

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