Sean Miller wrote:
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Having grown up in a Unix/VT220 environment to find that there is no
ctrl key and everything is done differently is, to say the least,
rather alien. I mean, ctrl-c to cancel... been there since time and
memorium... how come Steve Jobs gets to redefine it?
Hang
Not everyone always realises straight away that Macs can use a 2 button
mouse. When I first started using one, it confused me, and I presumed that
it didn't have one because it didn't use the right mouse button. The other
thing that really got me about using a Mac is that I'm used to doing things
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Anderson ne...@well.com wrote:
Hang on, what do you mean, no Ctrl key? I'm looking at the MacBook Pro
keyboard I'm typing on right now, and there it is, a Ctrl key nestling
between Fn and Option/Alt. This and the there's no right mouse
button[1]
It lets you use Ubuntu on a Mac a little more easily :)
(The crtl key was, iirc, added around 1986, when Apple started to
bring out networking and terminal programmes which required it,
usually for connecting to a mainframe. Insignia SoftPC, which let you
run DOS apps on Macs, and so required a
Sean Miller wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Anderson ne...@well.com wrote:
Hang on, what do you mean, no Ctrl key? I'm looking at the MacBook Pro
keyboard I'm typing on right now, and there it is, a Ctrl key nestling
between Fn and Option/Alt. This and the there's no right
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:45 PM, William Anderson ne...@well.com wrote:
Where it counts, it does exactly what you'd think a Ctrl key does. If I
fire up a shell, Ctrl+C, +Z, +S, etc does what you think it would. You
quickly get used to the difference between Ctrl and Cmd, in fact it's
quite
Sean Miller wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:45 PM, William Anderson ne...@well.com wrote:
Where it counts, it does exactly what you'd think a Ctrl key does. If I
fire up a shell, Ctrl+C, +Z, +S, etc does what you think it would. You
quickly get used to the difference between Ctrl and Cmd,
On 18/01/2009 21:24, Tony Travis wrote:
Hello, Sean.
William is right, most Mac's have a 'normal' keyboard + I'm running
Ubuntu 8.10 on an old 15 flat-screen G4 iMac quite happily. The only
keyboard-related problem I have is that the Mac cursor keys produce
different escapes than the PC
I always thought that Macs would be easy to use, especially the new OS
X. So when I had the opportunity to try it out in an Apple shop, I was
disappointed at how hard it was to do anything. I tried several things,
and on different occasions, but it was not as intuitive as Apple's
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com wrote:
Usually I am wary of tempting people to switch, but since it's my mum I know
Ubuntu will do exactly what she needs without any hiccups (well, non I can
think of) since all she does is type up work things, and check
I'm very uncomfortable using Apple computers. My friend bought one about 2
years ago, I still struggle to use it. It seems to try to be different so
much, it becomes a little unusable (in my opinion). Case example is (again,
2 years ago) I started college. My girlfriend is an artist, and had to do
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