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What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard?
Jeff Bauer writes "Today's article in The Straight Dope explains all
the weird keys that come with standard PC keyboards. Now if someone could just explain what the 'Alt Graph' key does on my Sun keyboard, enlightement would be at hand ..."
How you know it's TRUE Straight Dope:
/p," to display directory information a page at a time."
"In command-line environments such as DOS, the pipe symbol can add functionality to a DOS command. The way I most frequently use it is when doing a directory listing (DIR) on a large directory with hundreds of files. Say I type "DIR" at the command prompt like so:
C:\Una\Lesbian Porn>DIR
. . . then the 22,000 files in that directory scroll past so fast I can't see their names. However, if I apply the pipe function at the command prompt like this:
C:\Una\Lesbian Porn>DIR | more
. . . then the display will show me one screen of files at a time, with a "More" at the bottom. To display the next screen of files, I hit any key to continue, until all of the files in the directory have been listed (or I break, by pressing Ctrl-C). This is similar to using the "/p" modifier, such as "DIR
Not only do they explain it, but give a real life situation where it'd be useful! It's always hard to sort through 22,000 lesbian porn pics.
I've been wondering the same thing about my windows key.
I belive it has something to do with locking the scroll....
<> !*''#
^"`$$-
!*=@$_
%*<> ~#4
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|{,,SYSTEM HALTED
Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.
Very handy key.. I press it twice and my Linksys KVM switches to the other system. Does it do something else?
Whenever my lab partner does something good, I hit the props key. Sun machines are cool like that.
Something has to turn the Scroll Lock light on and off.
I'm still trying to figure out what this fucking window keys does.
oh... nevermind.
This is all very interesting, but it still doesn't tell me anything about where the 'Any' key is...
WHATISTHISCAPSLOCKKEYFOR?
It's for annoying the crap out of email recipients and newsgroup readers - of course.
Damn Slashdot, it filtered the accents on "tres" and "frequemment".
Marcelo Vanzin
You are not using a modern keyboard.
You are using a Modern Art keyboard.
We used to use backtick an tilde as delimiters in proprietary text storage and parsing routines. Nobody will these when entering text into a program. Well at least that was the theory at design time.
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
What has this world come to...now you have to call your lawyer and start sueing things just to move your pointer...wtf
Bottles.
for a cutting edge super user friendly OS: Make the Print Screen key actually work and PRINT THE FREAKIN' SCREEN!
The more you want, the less you have.
"I've been wondering the same thing about my windows key."
It makes Windows bluescreen, STOP HITTING IT!!!
Alt-Gr, useful when that regular "Grrrrrrrr!" just isn't enough.
(Alt-Gr key example (in this case being illustrated as part of a key combo to produce the Euro symbol))
News for Geeks in Austin, TX
up, down, and ``straight to eleven''.
Blatanly stolen from Simpsons episode 3f05.
There is no sig, there is only Zuul.
The registration key. All my software keeps asking me for it...
THe capslock key is wired on onall nigerian keyboards by law.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
at my lab, we administer cisco routers using a console connection to a pc via hyperterminal. what you see in the screen is a scrolling-text, command prompt environment. sometimes, the keyboard gets bumped around and the scroll-lock button gets accidently pressed.
/.), when i'd hear him yell out:
my co-worker, in all the years that he's been working here, never seems to learn this.
i'd be sitting at my desk, trying to do more important stuff (like reading
"there's something wrong with this router! come check it out..."
me: "is the scroll-lock on?"
few seconds later...
"oh."
-- I hereby announce, on behalf of my great ancester Oog, a retroactive patent on THE WHEEL.
It would REALLY suck to lose the tilde and have to type $HOME all the time.
I think the windows key is just alt-esc or control esc or some such thing.
You're right. The "Windows Key" (AKA Start Button) is CTRL+ESC. The "right-click" is SHIFT+F10. The "Task Manager" is CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. The "Boot a Real OS" is CTRL+ALT+DEL.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
The first time I read that, I thought that by 'our languages' you meant bash. Time to go outside.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
It's been years, man, let it go. It was an Intro to C program, it's not like it was your thesis or anything. How long did it take you to rewrite the whole thing, five minutes or ten?
First, let me show you this wonderful space bar key!
I dont have an key. I dont understand whats up with people on Slashdot always griping about my typing and grammar. Its perfectly acceptable. Theres nothing wrong with it. Whatever, I just dont get it.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
What's next to your home key?
...
My car key, my office key, my desk key,
I especially enjoyed how you mangle the language, grammar, and punctuation while trying to argue against twisting our language. Please crawl back into your troll-hole.
As a short list:
1. Repeated extensive capitalization as an indication of vocal volume.
2. Misspelling of "damnit"
3. Incomplete sentences.
4. Use of "Mod" as a verb. (the most similar to the slang you criticize so heavily)
Note that our language is completely jacked already-- to paraphrase your example:
It's BOXEN, goddamnit! OXEN! SHEEP! THIEVES! WOMEN! CHILDREN! MICE! BARRACKS! DICE! ALUMNI! VORTICES! AUTOMATA!
Look! It's a whole slew of plurals that don't follow any consistent rules! It's pretty "twisted" already. Besides, I like "boxen."
wow,
just tryed that real OS trick,
and blow me down with a feather
XP is a real OS after all.
You have 5 Moderator Points!
Which Helpless Linux zealot/MS basher do you want to mod down today?
is extremely knowledgeable and cosmopolitan. No urban legends, actual investigation, proper journalistic techniques. Believe me,
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
But where is the any key?
Well the num pad is there for contingency. That is if the arrow keys fails, or the top row numbers doesn?t work anymore, you can still carry on typing those all important numbers. Imagine for example a day as a flight controller, and you notice two airplanes on the same altitude and opposite course, 10 seconds from hitting each other. Then you are about to email the new course to one of the airplanes, but suddenly realizing that the top number keys are not working. The day before the sysop removed the number keyboard, because of redundancy. What do you do????
No, - my fellow IT-humans! Don?t take away the number keyboard! Better yet, - bring a backup set for all keys on the board.
What do you think?
A scroll wheel then?