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I have been through two black keyboards and the letters just melt away. aarghh, now you tell me (the wrapping's already in the wheelie bin!) I recall that happened to our first Sky remote but the new one has lasted longer and looks like new. I can type really fast (but have to look -seems part of my brain knows where the keys are but not the correct bit, bit like me and the piano, I have to keep looking down - never had a teacher  |
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I have been through two black keyboards and the letters just melt away. aarghh, now you tell me (the wrapping's already in the wheelie bin!) Normally it is my acid tongue rather than my acid fingers that cause the trouble John  And I wrote that without even looking and wiv me eyes closed!! Of course, it could be the lemon juice dripping on the keyboard that does it. Ha! Convent Girls, never a dull moment when we have to do so many penances is it? |
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« Reply #47 on: 19:03:46, 04-01-2008 » |
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Mytyping isso fast thatthis keyboard isn'talways insertingspaces between words. No manual to alter keysensitivity  I need to slow down |
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« Reply #48 on: 19:04:53, 04-01-2008 » |
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Whatever do any of you need letters on the keys of your keyboards for? You all know which key does what, surely? Anyway, having the assigned characters printed clearly and robustly on the keys of my keyboard has never stopped me from hitting the wrong ones.  |
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. . . having the assigned characters printed clearly and robustly on the keys of my keyboard has never stopped me from hitting the wrong ones. No but what finally has of late is we have observed the threat of inclusion in the R3OK Glossary. |
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« Reply #52 on: 19:16:09, 04-01-2008 » |
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oh and scroll lock (what the heck is scroll lock?)
I shall show my age again now! Way back, in the days of CPM (anybody remember that?), the scroll lock key stopped the screen scrolling so you could read the contents IIRC. Of course, DOS made everything so much better. |
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« Reply #53 on: 19:19:12, 04-01-2008 » |
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oh and scroll lock (what the heck is scroll lock?)
I shall show my age again now! Way back, in the days of CPM (anybody remember that?), the scroll lock key stopped the screen scrolling so you could read the contents IIRC. Of course, DOS made everything so much better. Mmmm, CPM and the flexible delights of PIP. |
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« Reply #54 on: 19:37:47, 04-01-2008 » |
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(what the heck is scroll lock?) Why do these keys remain on modern keyboards? What is "Sys Rq" (on the same key as Print Scr) and who uses the key to the left of 1 - the one with ¬ on it? |
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« Reply #55 on: 19:43:28, 04-01-2008 » |
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who uses the key to the left of 1 - the one with ¬ on it?
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« Reply #56 on: 19:46:43, 04-01-2008 » |
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So THAT`s how she does it! `````  |
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« Reply #57 on: 19:51:06, 04-01-2008 » |
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The key to the left of MY 1 does the top bit of this: â ô û ê î
Only for vowels though.
With shift it does this: °
Alas not on top of an a or a u, just on its own.
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« Reply #58 on: 19:55:27, 04-01-2008 » |
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"The magic SysRq key is a key combination in the Linux kernel which, if the CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ option was enabled at kernel compile time, allows the user to perform various low level commands regardless of the system's state using the SysRq key. It is often used to recover from freezes, or to reboot a computer without corrupting the filesystem."
According to Wiki. Although I've got Linux (Kubuntu) running on my old desktop, I must admit I didn't know this.
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« Reply #59 on: 19:58:00, 04-01-2008 » |
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I suppose the key to the left of 1 would be useful in sentences like this:-
I was putting up letters above a shop window yesterday when I dropped an L. When it landed on the ground it looked like this: ¬.
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