Discuss.
― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business (Scourage), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Makes the scroll lock led light up.
― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business (Scourage), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
"where's my waiter with that Tab?"
― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
(x-post)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
I have a KVM switch somewhere, which is activated by the scroll lock key - the keystroke to flip the switch is scroll lock, scroll lock, up.
At work I regularly - about every two or three months - get a call from one particular manager: "My keyboard's broken! I'm trying to type a spreadsheet and it's not doing anything". The answer is always "Press the Num Lock key"
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Fn depends on your software. Most Windows programs bind F5 to Refresh (apart from Lotus Notes) and F1 to Help. Alt+F4 is "close window".
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
when I have to help somebody with a laptop who is freaking out because they turned on num lock and didn't realize it, I am amused.
num lock.
― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business (Scourage), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
What about "Prt sc/Sys rq"?
Print Screen. Saves your desktop to the clipboard. Hit it, open Paint, hit paste.
F1: usually help.
Scroll Lock: a dead button. Few program use it. It used to make the screen move w/ the arrow keys instead of the cursor. I think the mouse made it outdated?
F2 I think is different for most programs.
Pause/Break: form the olden days too. When you needed to pause or break a program. Haven't seen a use for it forever.
― Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
a: idiots exist ok nevermind
― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Not that I have, uuhhh, any reason for wanting to do this.
― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Maria: as a lefty, I think I'd prefer that keyboard too. We should all switch to that... like a baby step before going to chording keyboards in the future when we have space cars and stuff
― Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Scroll lock is a key (with an associated status light) on most modern computer keyboards. The behavior of the key depends on the particular software in use.
The Scroll Lock key is a remnant from the original IBM PC keyboard. In the original design, Scroll Lock was intended to modify the behavior of the arrow keys. When the scroll lock mode was on, the arrow keys would scroll the contents of a text window instead of moving the cursor. In this usage, Scroll Lock is a modifier key like Alt and Shift (which modify the function of other keys) and, more specifically, a toggling lock key like Num Lock or Caps Lock, which have a state that persists after the key is released. Today, this particular use of Scroll Lock is rare. Only a few modern programs still honor this behavior, such as Microsoft Excel (in the behavior of arrows — when Scroll Lock is on, the selection does not move), Lotus Notes and Forté Agent. In modern GUI environments, scrolling is usually accomplished using newer means such as scrollbars or scroll wheels. Therefore Scroll Lock can be regarded as a defunct feature in almost all modern programs and operating systems.
― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Teh HoBBx (HoBB), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
2 press Scroll Lock
3 have fun/call tech support!!!!!!!!1
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Dead buttons are great because the intrepid user can map them to do other, funner things.
― Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Del Monte Young (ex machina), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Wasn't worth having
OMG no wonder Finlanders are so pale.
― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
But the numbers are laid out like a regular 10 key calculator so that you can touch type numbers.
There was a Straight Dope article about this in which the reader wondered if telephones were laid out differently so that the user would be forced to dial slower.
― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
If you're doing data input it works better with the keypad. Three big fingers cover the numbers (one column each), thumb does the zero, little finger hits enter, and your left hand hits the tab key to take you to the next box while you go into a trance.
― Teh HoBBx (HoBB), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
I use a computer keyboard and monitor as a phone during the radio show I produce. I answer the lines by pressing the corresponding Function key, and I make outgoing calls by using the numeric keypad.
With regular numbers that I call, it's actually a minor challenge sometimes to call them from a regular telephone instead of the keypad because the numbers are arranged differently. There have been times when I've hit the keys in the same rhythm I always do only to get a completely different number on the line because I've forgotten where I was. Frustrating.
I also work with an idiot savant who likes to turn off the numlock button at the end of the day. Pretty frustrating to dial 15013768111,,8923 only to find that Rain Man's been in the studio and none of your digits were entered.
― PPlains (PPlains), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
DO NOT WANT
― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Moisture G Mess (The GZeus), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Del Monte Young (ex machina), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
We're agreeing, right?
― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
OMG I DID NOT KNOW THIS!!!!!
― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Look up "macro recorder"
there are programs out there that will do this hell of easily.
― Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Will M. (Will M.), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
On a Mac, it works mostly the same, but you use option instead of control.
Not all applications respond the same, and you usually need some text to select for this to be interesting.
Also, scroll lock is useful on the console of a unix PC, and pause/break can be used to send a break to a serial terminal.
― The danger of opposite of transparent aluminum foil. (goodbra), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― The danger of opposite of transparent aluminum foil. (goodbra), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― The danger of opposite of transparent aluminum foil. (goodbra), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Del Monte Young (ex machina), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Whoa!
Is there are website or something that would list all these secret functions?
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link
But how is he going to acidentally type over his own work?
― naus (naus), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― naus (naus), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 07:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 07:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― sterl clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
i've appropriately configured all my hotkeys to bring up various photos of myself.
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Tuomas (lixnix...) (webmail), February 21st, 2007 7:14 AM. (Tuomas) (later) (link)
please to post url of tuomas homepage when it is completed
― trainwrecked (sanskrit), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Del Monte Young (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
But seriously, I think I use pretty much all of these regularly except for scroll lock and that button that simulates a right click. There's an entire set of commands that the Windows key can be used in conjunction with that are really useful:(using wk for Windows key)wk+r: Run dialogwk+e: New windows explorer windowwk+pause: System Properties
and those are just a few of the amazing things you can do with a modern keyboard. Next week, I'll explore the mythical "apple" key on Macs.
― mh (mike h.), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link