aNY ONE ELSE WONDER WHY THEY PUT THE CAPS LOCK NEXT TO THE A?

aAAAARGH!

Your left pinky is too long. Amputate to the first joint and you won't have that problem any more.

-Rob

I feel your pain!

First thing I do with a new system/keyboard is disable every nonsense key. Caps Lock key, "Windows" keys, "Application" key, etc.

The better KBs come with software tools with options to disable keys and/or allow it via the control panel. Failing that (on Windows) there are registry hacks to map those key codes to no-ops.

A lot of my passwords, perhaps all, use at least one capital letter, so disabling is not an option.

quote:

Originally posted by BurtonRW:
Your left pinky is too long. Amputate to the first joint and you won't have that problem any more.

-Rob

Thanks! Best advice ever. As a bonus, all of my coworkers are now terrified of me, and no one steals my snacks anymore. Janitorial was not happy though.

Modern problems, modern solutions.

Well they had to slow your typing down somehow, or else all those little hammers with the letters on them will bunch up next to the ribbon.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
A lot of my passwords, perhaps all, use at least one capital letter, so disabling is not an option.

Are you saying that in order to capitalize letters while you're typing, you're using the CapsLock button one letter at a time as you go? As in, to type "I like Sigforum", you're clicking:

CapLock (On)
I
Capslock (Off)

l-i-k-e

Capslock (On)
S
Capslock (Off)
i-g-f-o-r-u-m



... You can capitalize letters without using CapsLock. That's what the Shift keys are for. And it's way easier/faster than toggling CapsLock both on and off for each and every capital letter.

CapsLock is only intended for when you want to type a long string of capitalized letters, like an entire sentence or paragraph in caps, without having to hold down the Shift key the entire time. But that's such a rare occurrence for most people that's it not a big deal to disable it, because even if you do need to capitalize a long string of things every once in a blue moon, you can still do that with just the minor aggravation of having to hold Shift the whole time.

Whereas accidentally triggering CapsLock when you don't want to is significantly more likely than intentionally using it to type long batches of capitalized text.

Hence the usefulness of disabling it, unless you're one of the rare people in a specific niche situation where CapsLock sees regular use. (For example, if you're using a certain specific database or programming language that requires all text entries to be input exclusively in all caps.)

Obviously I'm aware of that and you're ignoring what I said. I do long strings of capital letters, and I don't care to hold down the shift key while I'm doing it.

For the record, I touch type at over 80WPM so I'm relatively proficient with a keyboard.

Oh well, business as normal.

I'm ignoring nothing. Nothing in your initial post indicated that you "do long strings of capital letters". Your post only stated that your passwords include "at least one capital letter" and thus you believed CapsLock was a necessity for you. Hence the clarification question.

Personally, I don't bother using CapsLock on anything less than about a complete sentence of all capital letters, so even several capital letters in a row in a password wouldn't rate CapsLock, but that's just me.

However, I'm glad to hear that you're not an absolutely barbaric typist. Using CapsLock for individual capital letters would be true QWERTY Insanity, and represents the sort of deviant behavior that would be a red flag for someone potentially being a serial killer.

I was just talking to my older brother, we both agreed that we miss the IBM Selectric II's. Love the clacky clacky of a real typewriter and having to become a better typist back then instead of today's hit the backspace and fix it. LOL. Back then everybody knew the difference betwen Pica & Elite.

That, and #2 pencils. I still love using a pencil with a good eraser. However, I usually buy a couple packs of #2 pencils every year. At least I have several old fashioned vintage pencil sharpeners.

This was actually a problem back in the day, if you are old enough to remember this: