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*shrug*
Sure why not, though you get more out of how the people post and what they notice about their keyboard than the keyboard information itself.

I have a refurb IBM model M from www.clickykeyboard.com, the type that lasts forever, clicks loudly, and weighs as much as a cinderblock.  (for other people's information, you can buy a brand new one made with the same buckling spring technology from unicomp.com, they *DO* make them like this still, new, and just as well made too)  Basically, the keyboard lasts forever with a little care.  Though it is a chore to clean, I clean it every few months by taking the keycaps (not the keys, the keycaps are seperate on these) and cleaning below with rubbing alcohol doused Q tips.

The cord, where it leaves the keyboard has a loose connection from the constant movement (I type with the keyboard in my lap) so I have had to duct-tape the cord to the side of the keyboard for it to function until I feel well enough to get into it and repair it right with my soldering iron and proper heatshrink (used to be in the TV/vcr repair business, I know how to repair things right).  It stays pretty clean, but I do eat with it in my lap so it tends to get a bit of gunk in it between full cleanings.

I also for a while used to cut cheese with my pocketknife while it was sitting on my desk, and as a result there are a couple cuts in the very bottom (most towards the user side) of the keyboard I had to sand down a bit to even them out. I thoroughly regret ever having marred such a good piece of equipment so I altered my desk arrangement so I eat (and prepare) food (like sandwiches) using another section of my desk.

I do wipe the keyboard (and desk) off often with a washcloth, "hand salsa" as the accumilation is called by techies is very disgusting to me.  Besides the duct tape area, it looks just like it did when it arrived (as clickykeyboard thoroughly cleans them inside and out before sending them to buyers, and replaces all worn keycaps) despite me using it for almost two years straight, doing a lot and I mean a lot of typing, and since it was so well made the only key that shows any real wear besides "a bit of shininess" (from plastic wear from repeated typing, which slowly wears down that orange peel type texture given plastic) is the bottom center of the spacebar as with typing text it is the most common key pressed and I press it in the bottom of the center as well instead of the center of the key like the rest of the keys.  The shiniest keys (most used) are the arrow keys along with the navigation cluster (ins home pgup pgdn end del) and numpad along with all the standard letter keys.

(note: unicomp.com's front page is offline, but you can go directly to their most popular model by going to http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/customizer.html )

Ive actually found that parties are the worst thing for a fortress short of a flood of water or lava.

Build nice wide hallways for the main traffic of your fortress, the most well trafficed of them drop some platinum statues in, dont even designate them anything. Make a nice huge (say 20x20) dining area and fill it with seats, tables, and carved (engraved) areas. Those two things alone (along with optional private bedrooms) are the best way to keep your dwarves in "always extatic mood".

If you look at the driver you should have some options under opengl for anti aliasing, this can be set to application control or overridden and forced to whatever you want. That might help you get it for the time being.

*sigh* why does everyone only read part of the message?
I know all about FSAA, and all about the stretching options available in the advanced section of the nvidia drivers (whether to let the card drivers and hardware or the monitor itself handle it) The problem with this is I do not wish to enable FSAA for other applications, and per-application FSAA settings simply do not work correctly with nvidia drivers even with the classic control panel hack installed (which by the way the nvidia classic control panel has many, many more options then the POS .net based new one).

Been quite a while since I posted here... I believe almost two years maybe? Anyway two points. First and foremost, Toady, much improvement of framerate when there are many active jobs, I am one happy fox! Thank you.  Also thank you VERY MUCH for the new forums, they are MUCH better then the old ones.

Second, a suggestion: mayhap you can build in some basic anti aliasing or some better interpolating/stretching routines into DF instead of merely nearest pixel for those that have LCDs and cannot run (with good image quality) at fullscreen? (yes I am aware there is a very simple interpolation option... have you tried it? better then nearest neighbor but not much)

...I upgraded to a 22" widescreen 1680x1050 and even the largest tilesets get horribly interpolated when going fullscreen, though Ive not yet played with the advanced stretching functions in the win32 nvidia driver for LCD screens.  A nice say eagle or supereagle algorithm would be nice here, though I'm not sure what license they are released under.

Why? they would make excellent defense forces!

I just started playing with adventure mode, and I really like the last name for my dwarven hammer woman.  "Skyseal".  reminds me of the game Ogre Battle: the march of the black queen.

The human civilization is called "The unbridled councils of styling of the confederations of forever"... I kid you not... that's gotta take a while to get engraved on somethin'.

[ May 23, 2007: Message edited by: Jaqie Fox ]

What have you done with water that's fun so far? I built a huge tank (10x12x8 deep, mostly higher than ground level, took a year to fill) and then set it to explode up through the ground in a 1x1 tile... it really did explode and create a tall (almost as high as the top of the water level in the tank) fountain and amazingly large flood... wow!

more efficient to designate high traffic lanes for them to run around on, less designation time.  I also built roads over the high traffic areas afterward, works very well.