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Re: Death to Caps Lock?

Subject: Re: Death to Caps Lock?
From: John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
To: Brian Gordon <elasticsoul2003 -at- yahoo -dot- ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:47:29 -0400

Google on "wirekeys" and you'' find a little freeware applet that lets you reprogram any keyboard. I set my caps lock to be a shift key ...


John G




Brian Gordon wrote:

Probably not, but a group wants the caps lock key removed from keyboards. I believe they'll solve the crisis in the Middle East right after they accomplish that goal. :-)

Brian

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71606-0.html?tw=rss.index
"Hintjens, the CEO of iMatix, has launched the Capsoff organization in a campaign urging hardware manufacturers to ditch the oft-abused and misused key. [snip]
"The Caps key is an abomination," Hintjens writes on his blog. "It's a huge key, stuck right there where the Ctrl used to be, and as far as I know, it's only used by 419 scammers and Fortran programmers."



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