Portable Dvorak, was Re: Taking the Dvorak issue into our own hands

Giles Orr <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:07:19 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.altkeyboards
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2009/10/20 Marco Amans <[email protected]>
> marzolian ha scritto:
>
> > Dvorak's keyboard up with was a definite improvement over QWERTY, and
> > I wish people had listened to him way back when. I made a real
> > effort to use it about 13 years ago. The main reason I didn't
> > continue was because I was working at a client's office, on a machine
> > that other people would use once in a while. I wasn't allowed to
> > activate Dvorak on it.
>
> You can remap your keyboard to Dvorak layout using an Autohotkey script
> with portable Autohotkey on a USB key.
>
> This makes it very unlikely that you cannot use Dvorak on any computer.

Many places don't allow executables to be run from removable media.
This is why I ended up buying a second Kinesis Advantage for work.  An
expensive solution, and not for everyone.

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