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Offline Viett

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Lifehacker: Networks Lights Turns Your Keyboard LEDs Into Activity Indicators
« on: Mon, 07 December 2009, 12:46:06 »



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Would be fun for those especially bright blue FLICO/ABS LEDs.
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Lifehacker: Networks Lights Turns Your Keyboard LEDs Into Activity Indicators
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 07 December 2009, 13:46:22 »
Bummer, doesn't work on my usb Cherry connected to a Dell Latitude e6500 at work.
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« Reply #2 on: Mon, 07 December 2009, 13:49:05 »
Doesn't seem to work in a virtual machine, either.
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Offline Xuan

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Lifehacker: Networks Lights Turns Your Keyboard LEDs Into Activity Indicators
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 07 December 2009, 17:52:23 »
I've installed one app like this called tleds but I found it to be really annoying, so I decided to remove it.
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Offline AndrewZorn

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« Reply #4 on: Tue, 08 December 2009, 13:44:56 »
wow this is awesome
a clever idea and they actually made it happen
its so great and i was so excited, then i looked down at my LED-barren HHKB

well, ill have a filco once again soon...

this comment worries me though
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Something I noticed today whilst paying my bills is that this actually toggles numlock on and off, not just faffs with the LED.

they say its for network activity, which is the only reason i bring up taskman/resource monitor here in iraq (ZOMG WHY DOES _____ NEED 4.5 KBPS!!??!??!?!?).  back home, i never really need to pay attention to it, and would prefer it to be a hard drive and CPU (>30% type thing) light
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Offline ironcoder

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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 10 December 2009, 04:17:19 »
tleds works cool on my Linux box. However I have to wear sunglasses because of the Filcos....
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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 10 December 2009, 19:59:15 »
Worked pretty good on my work machine, until I started up a cygwin terminal (WinXP). At which point it kept sending Device Control 4 signals to the active terminal. I.e. ^T

Look up the ASCII control characters if you have no idea what I'm talking about.
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