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Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle 423

Posted by timothy from the mysteries-of-the-ages dept.
destinyland writes "For decades, people have been asking this brain teaser: 'What's the longest word you can type with only the left-hand letters on a keyboard?' The answer is supposed to be 'stewardesses,' but grepping the standard dictionary that ships with Unix reveals a much better answer. There's nearly 2,000 shorter words that can typed with only the left hand — including one word that's even longer. (The article also quotes a failed novel attempt using nothing but words typed on the keyboard's left side.)"

Comment Links to torrents for CDs with proprietary drivers (Score 1) 173

by pirnaver (#16297441) Attached to: Mandriva 2007 Released

GNOME Version

  • mandriva-one-2007-gnome1.iso: Dutch, English, Gaelic (Irish), German, Icelandic, Italian, Low Saxon, Sardinian, Welsh

  • mandriva-one-2007-gnome2.iso: Breton, Catalan, English, French, Galician, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Spanish, Walon

  • mandriva-one-2007-gnome3.iso:Afrikaans, Arabic, Azeri (Latin), Bengali, English, Farsi (Iranian), Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Malay, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Tamil, Uzbek (cyrillic), Vietnamese

  • mandriva-one-2007-gnome4.iso:Danish, English, Esperanto, Faroese, Finnish (Suomi), Greek, Norwegian Bokmaal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish

  • mandriva-one-2007-gnome5.iso:Bulgarian, Croatian, English, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian

  • mandriva-one-2007-gnome6.iso: Belarussian, Bosnian, Czech, English, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Yiddish

KDE Version

  • mandriva-one-2007-kde1.iso: Breton, Dutch, English, Euskara (Basque), French, German, Icelandic, Occitan, Walon

  • mandriva-one-2007-kde2.iso:Danish, English, Gaelic (Irish), Italian, Norwegian Bokmaal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Sardinian, Welsh

  • mandriva-one-2007-kde3.iso:Catalan, English, Faroese, Finnish (Suomi), Galician, Low Saxon, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Saami, Spanish, Swedish

  • mandriva-one-2007-kde4.iso:Bengali, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Maori, Mongolian, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese

  • mandriva-one-2007-kde5.iso:Afrikaans, Amharic, English, Farsi (Iranian), Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Marathi, Tajik, Uzbek (cyrillic), Xhosa

  • mandriva-one-2007-kde6.iso:Croatian, English, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Polish, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Ukrainian, Yiddish

  • mandriva-one-2007-kde7.iso:Arabic, Azeri (Latin), Belarussian, Bosnian, Czech, English, Esperanto, Hebrew, Russian, Turkish

  • mandriva-one-2007-kde8.iso:Bulgarian, English, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovenian

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