On 13-Jul-07, at 11:51 AM, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
As I admitted in a recent post, I use a MacBook.
In fact, like that big black monolith, it always leaves me flailing
my arms,
whacking at my trackpad. TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP. *OH*. Then I
remember.
See, you can't *tap* the stars to rate. You
How is it that I went for all of 2006 without a hate?
As I admitted in a recent post, I use a MacBook. It has a gigantic touchpad
with one big button. I set that trackpad to tap-to-click, and I use the
button... well, never? I guess I use it for the "hold button while booting to
eject stuck co
Ooh, while we're on keyboard-related MacBook firmware hate
And a round of hate for all the firmware that isn't under the operating
system's control.
And a round of hate for the one-button mouse/trackpad/whatever.
And the fact that you can't go "I'm going to pull the battery, so I
want to *H
On Jul 12, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Yoz Grahame wrote:
Pressing [Macbook eject key] ejects whatever's in the CD/DVD
drive, which happens occasionally during normal typing due to
how much of the Delete key's edge it shares.
...which is probably one of the recent system updates -- either
10.4.8 or 10
On 7/12/07, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
* Minty [2007-07-12T10:29:15]
> Func+Shift+PageUp/Down = scroll up/down a line
> Shift+Func+PageUp/Down = scroll up/down a page
This is a hardware hate. On some revisions of MacBook (etc) firmware,
there is a quirk such that (I forget which is which): functi
* Minty [2007-07-12T10:29:15]
> Func+Shift+PageUp/Down = scroll up/down a line
> Shift+Func+PageUp/Down = scroll up/down a page
This is a hardware hate. On some revisions of MacBook (etc) firmware,
there is a quirk such that (I forget which is which): function-modifier-up is
modifier-pgup but m
