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I remember moving from CPM.
After a decade of paste-up, my best computer moment was drawing a border. The prospect of not having border tape stuck to my arms, not having my right fingernail constantly sliced from cutting mitered corners and not having to deal with globs of Rapidograph ink was orgasmic.
What are the possible culprits if SHIFT+E intermittently doesn't work on my Windows 7 work machine? e works fine, as does CAP LOCK + E, but not just plain shifting. All other letters of the alphabet seem good shifted, and it's more than one application (Opera and Word so far).
Can you swap in a different keyboard and see if you still have the problem?
I'd have to disturb someone at work--it seems way too small an issue to call support on, but it is annoying, especially when you're not watching the screen as you type and find out afterwards.
But I'll see if one's around.
I'd say it's probably a bad keyboard. If not, I'd be really curious myself what the problem was.
Years ago I had a keyboard where one of the shift keys sometimes didn't work, but the other always did. Are both shift keys not working for you?
I suppose "use the other shift key" might not be the best work-around.
You know--I have absolutely no clue. That will be tomorrow's first test. Holding the shift key down with the right hand. I just went with my hand's reflexes, and that's the only way to capitalise the letter. Things are so different with a brain in the picture.... But why would a keyboard blitz one letter? I mean, I guess they are that complicated inside it's not remotely like a set of mechanical equivalences, shift + any key having the same issues.
God, computers! What is your problem!
God, computers! What is your problem!
I think you just picked our next thread title.
finally updated my iPad to iOS 6.0.1 from 5.x. So far, the one thing that is pissing me off is the mail app. Anyone know how to turn OFF the VIP and Starred "accounts" stuff?
I never tried OS/2. I hear it was pretty sweet, but missed that window. Then, not having a clue what I was doing, I ended up using basically nothing but the LEAST user-friendly linux distros for years (slackware then gentoo - compiled absolutely everything from source like a real man!). But hey, I learned a lot.
I've got a web form that takes people's names & addresses and some other info. In google chrome, the autofill puts the zip code into both the zip code field AND the country field. Any idea why it would do this and how to prevent it? My google-fu is failing me.