Insert - yeah exactly what I wanted

[Hostile_Dialect]

@gotpasswords

On Unix servers, (using PuTTY as an ssh client) CTRL-C will either abort a running process or just echo “^C” to the command line and do nothing.

:smack: Of course. Damn, it’s been too long since I’ve run a *nix box, apparently.

@RealityChuck

No. Admittedly, I started doing that before the keys were standardized, but Insert works just fine for me and I don’t have to remember which key is what.

Well, I’ve already forgotten which key does which thing with Insert, but ^X/^C/^V is easy: they’re in a row next to each other, it’s just Cut/Copy/Paste.

[garygnu]

I just realized my keyboard at home doesn’t have a stand-alone Insert key. You have to turn Num Lock of, then hit 0.

[tonedef]

@Khadaji

One of the guys I work with will pry off the caps lock, the windows key and one other that I forget.

Yeah alot of internet cafes get ride of the winsdows key.

I’m pretty sure that in windows you can disable keys so u don’t need to remove them.

[Kerrigan]

At work, I’m not a big fan of F11 sometimes. In the computer charting system we use, F12 is “File,” and F11 is “Exit.”

Just about any time I hear a nurse, who had previously been quietly sitting at the computer, yell, “CRAP!” I know their finger didn’t go quiiiite far enough to the right after they spent 15 minutes typing up that patient assessment…

[Tuckerfan]

The one keyboard that will solve everyone’s problems.

Every key of the Optimus Maximus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing the function it is currently associated with.

Optimus is equally good for any keyboard layouts—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana—and so on to infinity: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions, images etc.

[Ximenean]

I kike all the Windows key shortcuts, too. Win-L, Win-R, and I don’t think anyone has mentioned Win-D (show desktop). OTOH, I have in my time pried off a Caps Lock key.

[Hostile_Dialect]

@Usram

I kike all the Windows key shortcuts, too.

:eek:

Please tell me that word means something else in Outer London and the editors of M-W somehow missed it. The analogy that usage brings to mind is not pretty.

[Wakinyan]

@Sublight

I became a hero in my office when I learned how to make a macro that disabled the Insert key.

And you can too:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-105

Should you ever want to use Overwrite Mode, it can be activated from the bottom of the window in MS Word.

Thank you.

[Ximenean]

@fetus

:eek:

Please tell me that word means something else in Outer London and the editors of M-W somehow missed it. The analogy that usage brings to mind is not pretty.

:eek: I like all the Windows key shortcuts. Maybe I should move the K further away from the L though.

[Hostile_Dialect]

@Usram

:eek: I like all the Windows key shortcuts. Maybe I should move the K further away from the L though.

Whew! You scared me there, sir.

[asterion]

I don’t get the hatred for the Windows key. Apple has been doing it for a lot longer than Microsoft and I haven’t seen any Mac users in here declaring their hatred for the Apple/Curly Thingie key.

[Tuckerfan]

@asterion

I don’t get the hatred for the Windows key. Apple has been doing it for a lot longer than Microsoft and I haven’t seen any Mac users in here declaring their hatred for the Apple/Curly Thingie key.

Maybe because, IME, the Apple key is located in such a manner that one is unlikely to hit it by accident.

[Sunspace]

@Tuckerfan

The one keyboard that will solve everyone’s problems.

I waant one of these. Even if it is 44,000 rubles. I type in three languages whose keymappings have been known to declare war on each other.

[Tuckerfan]

@Sunspace

I waant one of these. Even if it is 44,000 rubles. I type in three languages whose keymappings have been known to declare war on each other.

Well, that’s like $1.50 Canadian, right? So go ahead and buy yourself a truckload!

[Sunspace]

@Tuckerfan

Well, that’s like $1.50 Canadian, right? So go ahead and buy yourself a truckload!

Well, $1700 Canadian. And it doesn’t ship till Feb '08.

I [del]need[/del] want to get Adobe Design Premium first. Which, oddly enough, is around the same price.

[emmaliminal]

@Sublight

I became a hero in my office when I learned how to make a macro that disabled the Insert key…And you can too:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-105

Sublight is MY hero! Thank you thank you! I used to reprogram keystrokes all the time on my Mac, but wasn’t figuring out how to do that when the office switched to XP. Never occurred to me to try a macro. Yay! ::happy dancing::

[enigm4tic]

My HP laptop has a couple of “quickplay” keys that I tend to accidentally press while using the F-keys, which I do quite a bit in Eve-online. The problem with that is that it instantly minimizes everything I’m doing to launch a media-only program, which is hideously annoying to quit out of. I have no idea how to disable this. None of the actual keys really annoy me that much though.

On a related note, though this one was my own fault, I mapped a shortcut in the same game to ctrl-1. Unfortunately, Ctrl-Q is the quit command, and upon trying to use my new shortcut, immediately quit entirely, much to my displeasure.