WTF
polycounter lvl 16
What kind of sick perverted individual would design a keyboard with a power button where the printscreen is - and what idiot would buy one?
Me :poly127:
Bang went 4 hours work with a crescendo of 100 unclosable tablet driver windows.
I've now removed the button - should've thought of that sooner - a warning to all.
Me :poly127:
Bang went 4 hours work with a crescendo of 100 unclosable tablet driver windows.
I've now removed the button - should've thought of that sooner - a warning to all.
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loads of stuff can kill your pc or reboot you..
But damn, one button and it's all over
It was some cheap crap from Argos for a fiver - should've know better, but it's a temporary measure , unfortunately my last keyboard went haywire when the left CTRL key started triggering F9 by mistake , can't describe how frustrating that is when it happens randomly.
Probably too much accumulated pizza grease and Marlboro ash.
Photoshop really needs autosave or recover or something.
I make a point to save iteratively, and pretty much after every notable change.
Sorry to hear about your loss, Johnny. It usually takes something like this to program that whole save-every-five-minutes thing into artist's brains and muscle memory, though
After years of mapping for Unreal I should know by now, goddamit.
I remember a few years of pain before I discovered Shift+G was the instant kill combo for UnrealEd.exe .
BTW - who is so fucking lazy they need a power button on the fucking keyboard, come on - who invented this shit, what marketing wanker decided it'd be a USP not to have to move your arm two feet to the power button on the PC, or twich the mouse three inches to reach the start button...
JESUS!!!1111
Do yourself a favor though ...pop the button right out of the keyboard or find the software setting to disable it.
i shouldnt have to race against time to press a buttload (two in this case) of buttons just to get to the boot menu on startup.
has anyone ever accidentally pressed an f key only to result in absolute catastrophe?
On my old keyboard I definately wiped many projects out in the first few minutes of their creation trying to show the wireframe only to fine out my F4 key was the reset key for max...
geez.. put Del button there instead!
This should fix all keyboard key problems!
(except for F-lock-key... I remember having a keyboard with a f-lock-key before and it taught me to NEVER buy a keyboard with that stupid useless key on it again)
Speaking of useless keys, scroll lock AND caps lock are both useless for me. Luckily these are off by default unlike the damn f lock key. But I can see some people having a use for capslock so I dont mind the existence of that one, especially since I can customize it myself anyway. Numlock is always on and is useless too. Whats the point of wasting the LED light power by enabling num lock all the time?
Keyboard designers for desktop pcs suck.
Apple keyboard designers look like they know what they're doing. Hmm maybe I should buy one.
They're dreamy to type with, but it seems the UK layout is the same as the US layout - I've a lot of keys that're in the wrong place, and I'm typing mostly from memory :P And no "£" pound sign
It also has an eject button that doesn't do anything on my PC
I have one of these got it about a month ago best keyboard ever
So yeah, as soon as the powerdown incident happened I dug the fucker out with a knife, but I still have Printscreen where the Insert is, etc, with the whole row moved down to accommodate these worthless Power/Sleep buttons.
Ah well, gonna see if I can't find something online which is just a standard layout, standard keysizes, weighs enough and doesn't have stupid little rubber 'media' buttons or some shite.
I'd go for the Logitech if it had normal sized keys and not those weird laptop ones.
Something like this is perfect :
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=KB-106-LG&groupid=702&catid=23&subcat=2
These suck :
WTF - what is going on with the cluster above the cursor?
FAIL - What's going on here?
Who uses these? I can see more wrist strain with this than less..
Horrible flat laptop keys :
Here's my keyboard btw, too bad they don't make these anymore, Its perfect for me.
I have this one, after 2 years or so, space around tab/capslock/shift/ctrl is almost completely black, almost as if it was burned down, same around space :P
But yeah the keyboard is good anyhow.
What do you mean whats going on? It compacts the useless space by putting everything together. Saves desk space, but not as much as the apple ones do by removing the numpad.
Does anyone know if theres any disadvantages to using the USB ports built onto keyboards like on apple's keyboard?
For some reason I always think these kind of extra ports are less effective in some way even though I've never used them. Would be nice to plug in my wireless mouse receiver on the keyboard, saves using the dedicated receiver-extension that I use to put my receiver right next to my mouse.
edit; btw I found there is a UK version of the keyboard that does have the £ and $ signs where they should be (and more importantly the extra key between left shift and Z); http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MB869B/A
Oh... tottaly! Those 1.5cm between keys definitely saves a lot of space on your desk. Who cares about being able to type well, saving a few centimiters ftw!
Well the typing keys themselves are actually the same distance away as normal keyboards. The "compacted" stuff are things like the f keys, arrow keys and that block of 6 keys with massive space around them between the numpad and enter key.
None of this actually affects your typing unless you type with those keys (which most people dont) - oh and even if you did type with those keys, compacting them closer will actually end up helping you type quicker since you move less. Win-win situation for the slim design !
There is a same chance of accidently hitting one of the compacted keys on these slim keyboards as there are with mis-hitting any other key on any other regular (non-ergonomic) keyboard layout.
The only disadvantage is slightly slower read and write speeds due to a lower voltage available to the usb plug. But it still works, only some devices that need more power won't run on them, but mouse recievers, and most usb drives work, the larger ones, and externals won't run on them - on a mac it says there isn't enough power for the device.
I think that`s just because of your greasy fingers :P /I got one as well btw, I mean the keyboard