Yes, I would cheer at the public execution of the f-lock inventor. Or the guy who made the f-lock disabled on boot with no way of changing it.
I have been hitting F5 to refresh the screen for as long as I have worked with Windows machines. Now someone has decided that F5 without the f-lock would be a great shortcut to close the window. What was wrong with Alt-F4? The function keys already served a function (hence their name). They did not need to be remapped.
Its also a little annoying when booting a PC and missing the Bios setup screens or Windows boot options because the keyboard boots up with the F-keys disabled.
Until the F-lock goes, I will not buy another Logitech or MS keyboard.
I had AT&T wireless do the exact same thing. Cancelled the phone when it was well past the contract and ended up getting a call from a collection agent. Any calls to AT&T were met by "that account has gone into collection, you are going to have to talk to them." Of course all calls to the collection agency were met by "This is what AT&T says, we can't adjust the balances" or my favourite - "just pay it and you can argue with AT&T for a refund."
I ended up calling the State Attorney General who sent me to this site at the FCC. There is an online complaint form that you can fill out and one of the options is "Contract - Early Termination"
About a month later I got a call from AT&T who agreed to take out the early termination, but is still saying I owe them money for overage. So its not resolved yet, but at least the FCC form got AT&T to call and talk to me.
And I figure that someone keeps a tally of complaints at the FCC. Hopefully with enough people filing complaints against unfair practices we can see some change.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.csicop.org/articles/20021018-aldrin/
Link to video for anyone who didn't get the above post. Or for anyone who wants to see it again.
For FC3:F C3.tgz.torrent
http://downloads.zimbra.com/3.0_M1/zcs-3.0.M1_21.
Yes, I would cheer at the public execution of the f-lock inventor. Or the guy who made the f-lock disabled on boot with no way of changing it.
I have been hitting F5 to refresh the screen for as long as I have worked with Windows machines. Now someone has decided that F5 without the f-lock would be a great shortcut to close the window. What was wrong with Alt-F4? The function keys already served a function (hence their name). They did not need to be remapped.
Its also a little annoying when booting a PC and missing the Bios setup screens or Windows boot options because the keyboard boots up with the F-keys disabled.
Until the F-lock goes, I will not buy another Logitech or MS keyboard.
I had AT&T wireless do the exact same thing. Cancelled the phone when it was well past the contract and ended up getting a call from a collection agent. Any calls to AT&T were met by "that account has gone into collection, you are going to have to talk to them." Of course all calls to the collection agency were met by "This is what AT&T says, we can't adjust the balances" or my favourite - "just pay it and you can argue with AT&T for a refund."
I ended up calling the State Attorney General who sent me to this site at the FCC. There is an online complaint form that you can fill out and one of the options is "Contract - Early Termination"
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cib/fcc475.cfm/
About a month later I got a call from AT&T who agreed to take out the early termination, but is still saying I owe them money for overage. So its not resolved yet, but at least the FCC form got AT&T to call and talk to me.
And I figure that someone keeps a tally of complaints at the FCC. Hopefully with enough people filing complaints against unfair practices we can see some change.