Comments on: Notes from the help desk, #104

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:49:07 +0000

Where have you gone?
I hope you haven’t fallen victim to some bizarre Caps-Lock related accident.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:20:24 +0000

MY CAPSLOCK KEY IS BROKEN! I’M TYPING THIS WITH SHIFT!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:01:02 +0000

I am slighty fortunate in that my keyboards light up the caps-lock key when it’s on, it doesn’t help when my left hand is obscuring that key, unless I’m working in the pitch black.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:05:45 +0000

That’s just the point, surely no literate person ever uses it, except for “SHOUTING” on juvenile message services.
It often trips me up when typing a password. It is impossible to distinguish between an upper-case and a lower-case asterisk.
I suppose we could just advise people not to choose passwords that contain the letter A. Not that any of mine do.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:19:06 +0000

I don’t know of anyway to disable it – though I never use it and it causes no end to grief when I accidentally turn it on – some of the programs I use have keyboard commands that are case sensitive.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:37:03 +0000

Or should that be “duck”, what if it’s an orange duck? What does an orange say when it’s flying upside-down?
Anyhoo, is there any real way, readily comprehensible to your average (non-programming) punter, of disabling the verdammte caps-lock button. It’s my least favourite button of all time, I only ever use it by accident – which happens quite a lot. For instance, whenever I want to type a word which contains the letter A. Or, should I become so emboldened as to attempt to use the tab button.
I’m dimly aware of a “campaign” against caps-lock, but I don’t know if anyone’s taking this scourge seriously enough.