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OT Capslock key
Paul wrote:
Chris wrote: T wrote: On 11/1/19 6:02 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote: Being one of the worlds worst typists my keyboard and the useless, obnoxious caps lock key finally tried my patience one step too far. I downloaded and installed Key Teak from. https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/det...ml#screenshots Then I was finally able to disable that useless key Forever, Something I should have done ages ago. Rene Hi Rene, I can type by the way and I find the capo lock key to be OBNOXIOUS! You are way nicer that me about it. At times, I have pried it off with a small screwdriver. If I want cap locks I have to stick my little finger down the hole. On my base Linux system, I have resorted to mapping it to the giant bit bucket in the sky. I always turn it off. Windows, Mac and Linux. It is a waste of keyboard space. Why is it such a big key? The keyboard was designed to roughly match the old mechanical typewriters. The Shift Lock would be in that position on an Underwood. You pushed the Shift to lift the entire typing mechanism, to capitalize one letter. You pushed the Shift Lock to lock the mechanism in the elevated position. A slight second push on the Shift Lock, released the locking mechanism. The Caps Lock is in the place of the Shift Lock, and is a bit larger than the Shift Lock used to be. The Shift key was a relatively large diameter circle. While the Shift Lock was made smaller, presumably for tactile purposes. The Shift Lock didn't need as much force, because it was just a lock, while the Shift was the part that did the lifting of the entire typewriter central mechanism. Yes i know how the mechanical caps lock worked, but that's no reason to keep it. Mechanical keyboards haven't been relevant for over 50 years. A small button would work just as well. The carriage return and backspace keys have already shrunk. Part of the key layout on a computer keyboard, is a kind of "brickwork", with an offset between rows. The end keys are scaled to fill the half-key offset and square up the ends of the keyboard matrix. The size of the key is just happenstance. The position of the key is meant to match a mechanical typewriter, so you would "feel at home" while using it. And using a mechanical typewriter, is a lot like playing the piano :-) If you learned to play the piano first, your typing speed would pick up faster than the other students in your class. Just as learning to ice skate, makes it easier to learn the balance of downhill skiing. It's a bitch to teach someone to downhill ski, who has never ice-skated ("they keep falling over"). Paul |
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OT Capslock key
NY wrote:
"Ken Blake" wrote in message ... On 11/4/2019 10:14 AM, NY wrote: "Ken Blake" wrote in message ... A guy at work, did absolutely nothing as a kid. Didn't even ride a bicycle. We decided to teach him to ski. I never learned to ride a bike until I was 11. I learned, but I was terrible at it. I haven't done it for about 70 years and couldn't do it now. I was surprised at how quickly the skill of riding a bike came back to me after about 30 years of not riding. Your skill at it must be much better than mine ever was. When I learned how, I just barely managed to do it. I can't remember ever not being able to ride a bike, or the exhilaration when I first managed the technique - which probably says more about my memory than about any innate bike-riding skill ;-) My balance is generally not very good - I can't stand on one leg for very long and I've never been able to walk a tightrope. But riding a bike seemed to come naturally. I remember getting my first bike and learning to ride it. Particularly as one of the stabilisers broke off so i learnt by leaning to one side. My parents thought that when they took the other one off I'd just topple over. Nope. I was fine. One thing I tried a couple of years ago was riding on a Segway in Spain. Spain have sensible laws (unlike the UK) and you can ride them on the road or on a pavement that has a cycle lane. It took a while to get my balance: a group of us on an excursion from a cruise That reminds me. About the most bored tourists I've ever seen were a bunch on Segways on a tour in Lisbon near the Torre de Belem. |
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