Comments on: “It works for me”, or, “How does it know a developer’s using it?!” http://entrian.com/blog/it-works-for-me-or-how-does-it-know-that-its-a-developer-using-it/ The blog of Richie Hindle and Entrian Solutions, creators of Entrian Source Search, a full-text search add-in for Visual Studio. Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:41:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Richie Hindle http://entrian.com/blog/it-works-for-me-or-how-does-it-know-that-its-a-developer-using-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1137 Richie Hindle Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:27:06 +0000 http://entrian.com/blog/it-works-for-me-or-how-does-it-know-that-its-a-developer-using-it/#comment-1137 @danio: Good story! I work with a scarily clever guy, and one day one of my colleagues discovered how to a) spy on his screen, and b) remap his keyboard. So he swapped the top two rows: QWERTYUIOP[] became ASDFGHJKL;'# and vice versa. This guy's typing barely faltered - he just remapped his brain and carried on regardless. @danio: Good story!

I work with a scarily clever guy, and one day one of my colleagues discovered how to a) spy on his screen, and b) remap his keyboard. So he swapped the top two rows: QWERTYUIOP[] became ASDFGHJKL;’# and vice versa. This guy’s typing barely faltered – he just remapped his brain and carried on regardless.

]]> By: danio http://entrian.com/blog/it-works-for-me-or-how-does-it-know-that-its-a-developer-using-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 danio Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:53:36 +0000 http://entrian.com/blog/it-works-for-me-or-how-does-it-know-that-its-a-developer-using-it/#comment-1132 That's a good one - can be a real PITA to figure these kind of things out. Reminds me of when I used to work in tech support. One of the users couldn't log in to the application. I dialled up to remote control, got him to tell me the password and could log in fine. Got him to do it and it failed every time. Made him type his password in really carefully listening for key clicks - still no dice. Then for some reason I got inspiration - asked him to read his keyboard letters out to me - middle row went A S D F G J H K L Some joker had swapped the key tops round on the H & J keys, and the poor user was doing hunt and peck typing so he never realised... That’s a good one – can be a real PITA to figure these kind of things out.
Reminds me of when I used to work in tech support. One of the users couldn’t log in to the application. I dialled up to remote control, got him to tell me the password and could log in fine. Got him to do it and it failed every time. Made him type his password in really carefully listening for key clicks – still no dice.
Then for some reason I got inspiration – asked him to read his keyboard letters out to me – middle row went
A S D F G J H K L
Some joker had swapped the key tops round on the H & J keys, and the poor user was doing hunt and peck typing so he never realised…

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