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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on July 17, 2003, 04:04:47 pm
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I bought a new keyboard. ...cheap, but neat (about 23 quid with a mouse).... anyways, it has a scrollwheel on the right side. Above the scrollwheel, it has a set of hotkeys for forward and back on IE. in particular, the 'back' hotkey is exactly 1.75inches from the backspace key. ( And takes longer to use because of the wrapper software for the keyboard......)
This amuses me. A bit.
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At least the buttons on your keyboard work :p
I have an old multi-function keyboard from Gateway, and the driver is incompatible with XP, so there are abot 12 buttons at the top of my keyboard that do absolutley nothing.
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Sorry about the ever-so-slight derailment, but can you still get AT keyboards anywhere?
My old PC doesn't have a P/S2 port.
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New keyboards are an almost total waste of money. There's nothing you can do to a keyboard that can't be fixed with superglue, a wire bridge, and a Swiss army knife.
Also, yeah, they generally come with idiot keys. At least they haven't gone so far as to emulate Macs and put the power button on the top.
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The 'sleep' key is another winner - got it here next to the 'pause/break', and when hit (accidentally, why else) tends to 'sleep' the system for good..
Ergonomics any one? well, maybe within the next 100 years..
(yes, i do understand the massive R&D effort it'd take to place them harmful keys a half an inch farther a way, so i'm really not complaining)
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That's what they made flathead screwdrivers for, man. One good pry and you don't have to worry about it.
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*still has a 3 year old dell quietkey and doesn't deal with those ****-keys* :)
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
One good pry and you don't have to worry about it.
Ah yes, the general solution to every hardware problem under the sun :D
Might try that next time the modder in me rises its ugly head.
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Useless keys? I have 4.
Power - I progged win2k to use it as a hibernate button
Sleep - Used as a backup for the power button
Wake Up - No idea. Doesn't do anything.
Turbo - The ultimate oddity. Sticks out next to my right shift button, but is more useless than a priest's cock.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Also, yeah, they generally come with idiot keys. At least they haven't gone so far as to emulate Macs and put the power button on the top.
heh, Windows supports that and has done since 98 (so your beloved POS Win2k isn't immune either) but unlike the Windows key, which appeared on MS keyboards months before Windows 95 was released, the Power key, hasn't appeared on any MS keyboard produced since Windows 98 including my Internet Keyboard Pro which is a pain because I really want to map my motherboard Keyboard Power-On feature to something other than Ctrl-F1...
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So it supports it. Only nobody is dumb enough to take advantage of the fact that they added on that piece of functionality just in case, so it really doesn't matter.
Go on, ask me if I care.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
I bought a new keyboard. ...cheap, but neat (about 23 quid with a mouse).... anyways, it has a scrollwheel on the right side. Above the scrollwheel, it has a set of hotkeys for forward and back on IE. in particular, the 'back' hotkey is exactly 1.75inches from the backspace key. ( And takes longer to use because of the wrapper software for the keyboard......)
This amuses me. A bit.
The Logitech one??? I've got it in front of me. I don't ever use the wheel, and the F-Lock is god awefully annoying, but otherwise I like it. About the best feeling keyboard I've seen in a while. And I set up computer labs for a living, so I see a lot of keyboards ;)
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"It's not stupid, it's advanced"
:D
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The power key is the bane of my life.
With it being placed where pause should be, I'm forever switching my machine off while playing Total Annihilation.:mad:
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My power key is about half an inch from F12. Makes Dues Ex a bloody rollercoaster ride of rebooting fun... interestingly, you can use the Windows display settings to disable the power-on function of the key but not the power-off. Grr...
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i have some weird 10 year old thing my by a "zeos"(with a nifty symbol over the o). And it doesn't have a windows key :yes:
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Remap the scan code (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&th=c2d40510f52df790&seekm=3C86ABC3.5060403%40slo.net&frame=off).
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Hmm... we never did find out he got it working or not...
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Sorry about the ever-so-slight derailment, but can you still get AT keyboards anywhere?
My old PC doesn't have a P/S2 port.
You should cosider trading in your PC.:lol:
As for the turbo button on RT's keyboard, that has something to do with really, really, REALLY old computers (late '80s).
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I remember seeing those turbo buttons quite commonly on older pre-pentium machines; they made everything go at double speed or something like that.
And yeah, that sleep button used to get on my nerves on my older keyboard. I never understood the point of that whole sleep feature; it only results in locking up the computer and requiring a restart.
They have all this junk on the keyboards but not the one set of buttons that would actually be useful, a volume control thing; I have only seen some keyboards with those and you have to keep the keyboard software running in the background to use them unlike the other buttons.
Also, does anyone know what the "SysRq" thing on the print screen key is? Sounds like a leftover from the DOS days to me, but I'm not sure exactly what it does.
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If it's anything like the keyboard I have here the Turbo buttons change the rate at which data is sent to the PC from the keyboard, it has nothing to do with the speed of the PC like the old case Turbo buttons did.
As for sleep locking up your computer, that only happens if you're running a crap OS like Win9x (particularly Win98, that had lots of problems with Power Management), my machine used to go in and out of standby just fine under Win2k (back when I actually ran that POS) and still does under XP.
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
At least the buttons on your keyboard work :p
I have an old multi-function keyboard from Gateway, and the driver is incompatible with XP, so there are abot 12 buttons at the top of my keyboard that do absolutley nothing.
I love the gateway keyboard my mom has with her computer. :D I just wish I could get one like that that didn't effect my games. :doubt:
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Originally posted by CP5670
They have all this junk on the keyboards but not the one set of buttons that would actually be useful, a volume control thing; I have only seen some keyboards with those and you have to keep the keyboard software running in the background to use them unlike the other buttons.
I've got a remote control for my speakers :thepimp:
As for my keyboard, I've got a nice, old-fashioned, carpal tunnel syndrome inducing Dell QuietKey with no useless buttons
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I really wish I could get the buttons to work. I want the volume control keys back :(
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Originally posted by StratComm
The Logitech one??? I've got it in front of me. I don't ever use the wheel, and the F-Lock is god awefully annoying, but otherwise I like it. About the best feeling keyboard I've seen in a while. And I set up computer labs for a living, so I see a lot of keyboards ;)
This is the keyboard I bought yesterday, I like the keyboard too, and I agree I hated that F key thing, I pressed F2 for a while wondering what the hell...its not working...didnt realize I had to have the F lock on :)
I just relinked the buttons on the top to get to get easy access to things (IE. Trillian, Archspace, SSC website)
Got a new optical mouse too (Microsoft :P ) Its REALLY nice to get away from ball mouses.
[EDIT: Damn spelling errors]