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Annoying key

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Shell, Mar 30, 2003.

  1. Shell

    Shell Awww, come and give me a big hug!

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    Just wondering whether anyone else finds the # key annoying..... I'm always pressing it by accident when I go to enter some text
     
    Shell, Mar 30, 2003
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    I always press the Enter key when I mean to press Shift, so it really screws me up somtimes.
     
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    Its almost impossible to accidently press # with my keyboard :)
     
    Aikanaro, Mar 31, 2003
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    Well, you know how sometimes I have some REALLY weird, all screwed up punctuation in my post`? That's because I switch the layout of the keys between several different ones, so the characters often don't match the keys! And if i have to change 'puters, it may get even weirder...

    Yeah, keys scmeys sux :p

    (Elrond.... how about you put on these sunglasses and...)
     
    Arabwel, Mar 31, 2003
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    Morgoth La lune ne garde aucune rancune Veteran

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    Well, when I´m high on coffee I can type blind

    B L I N D ... :spin:

    I mean without looking :rolleyes:


    But for me, it really weird if I just "accidentaly" press [Shift] + [3]
     
    Morgoth, Mar 31, 2003
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    Well, Capslock occASIONALLY.

    :grin: :holy:
     
    Faragon, Mar 31, 2003
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    You are no doubt going to tell what happens, yes?
     
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    I'm used to having long delete buttons, so when I had one where the delete button was half the size I kept pressing the + button :mad:
     
    Teensabre, Mar 31, 2003
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    [​IMG] I often switch the keys on my alphasmart keyboard to make rude wordsearches during French :evil:
     
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    [​IMG] I press CAPlocKS accidentaly kinda often.
     
    Magiens Materialis, Apr 1, 2003
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    The insert key. This wreaks havoc when you are typing out essays. There's no light on the keyboard like there is for NumLock or CapsLock (and what the heck is ScrollLock? I've never used it before), so there's no way to tell if you've pressed INS or not.

    Usually I mean to hit backspace instead of insert. So when I edit written passages, I hit backspace to delete something and then type in the correction... and before I know it, I've overwritten everything that I had written out in front! :mad:
     
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    [​IMG] Im on a laptop so when numberlock is on, about 6 of the letters show up as numbers because they share the same key. Its very annoying.
     
    SoCo, Apr 1, 2003
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    @Blog: I always thought scroll lock was supposed to stop the page from automatically scrolling when you type over the bottom of the screen. But the quite obviously doesn't work.
    It probably used to do stuff on old 386 programs and is left on the keyboard for nostalgic purposes.
     
    Intentioner of the Damned, Apr 1, 2003
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    I don't think it was even used on a 386. I don't recall using it on my 286. IIRC it's for DOS.
     
    Charlie, Apr 1, 2003
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    Almost anything text-based, so that means *NIX as well
     
    Morgoth, Apr 1, 2003
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    Hmmm.. I think Charlie is right. You know how DOS sometimes prints out a whole slew of text very quickly, and you have no time to read any of it? (except the part at the bottom when it stops of course) Maybe ScrollLock is used to "pause" the system so you can read the output.
     
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  17. Mesmero

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    I'm used to having a large left shift key, but since I have a new keyboard, with a smaller shift key, I keep pressing the \ key next to it.
     
    Mesmero, Apr 2, 2003
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    Well it is! I still use it sometimes in Linux

    LOCKing the SCROLLing text??
     
    Morgoth, Apr 2, 2003
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