So it’s been about five weeks now since I switched to Dvorak at home. I’m up to 56 WPM now, at 82% accuracy. I’m not going to bother posting any more updates on this topic – the remaining speed and accuracy will require many hours of instant messaging to develop, as did my QWERTY skills when I was first really learning that layout. Switching back and forth between the two layouts is now nearly painless – I have a minute of confusion or so, and then my brain is fine again.
All in all, it’s been a fun time and I have a new skill now. Definitely worth it.
If you are running Linux and you change from a DHCP setup to a static IP address on your local network, and then at some future time your ISP changes your external IP address and your internet slows to a crawl, you might find it useful to know that your resolv.conf file probably contains the old DNS entries set up back when you were using DHCP. It’s a simple matter to change it, but knowing the problem is 99% of this battle. Maybe this will help someone else out there some day who wonders why a Windows box on the same network is chugging along happily but your Linux box is choking. Happy surfing!
