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

velociraptor velociraptor at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 09:31:22 CDT 2006


On 6/19/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> 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.

I don't believe his code was released into the wild.  Post-legal
threat, doing so might have prompted them to go ahead with the suit.

=Nadine=



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