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Quiet in here, aint it?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 April 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Too-wit Too-Woooooooooo!

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 2 April 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Jerry the Nipper is going to Paris next weekend.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 2 April 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahh. So, anyone want to look at a cute picture of my mum's new hearing dog? Or perhaps discuss the weather? It's brightish but not quite sunny in Brighton. I'm going for a run when I get home later. And I've just discovered what the 'Alt Gr' key on my keyboard does.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it play Alternative Guitar?

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Who doesn't?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it go mental when the phone rings?

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought it might be a sort of angry alternate keyboard universe...

But no, it makes an acute accent appear on whatever vowel you hold down at the same time. ééééééééé

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to use it to get [@]

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Where is this Alt Gr key anyway? I don't think I have one!

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I can make accents in ILX! I normally use Ctrl + ' and then type the letter but that only works in Word. Is there a shorter cut for umlauts than Ctrl + Shift + :?

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Alt Gr + 4 = €, far better than Alt 0128 (although I have that memorised now). This is sad.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Alt Gr: To the right of the space bar.
I have special keys for accents (but no pound sign).

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Whóá, I júst fóúnd it! Ástónishing!

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

AH AIRNT GOT NO CIGARETTES

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

And I've got a Euro key. It involves Alt Gr.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Héy wów!

Motórhead!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

€€€€€€€€P! That's weird.

I want chocolate.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"alt gr" is normally the alt key that's to the right of the keyboard.

instead of using "alt gr", you can also use "ctrl-alt" for the same effect for áccénts. but "alt gr" is easier

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to chat with a mexican girl online a lot and so i have learnt all these alt-0241 ñ alt-0161 ¡ alt-0191 ¿ malarky

¡Español es múy bien!

i've probably spelt it wrong actually. ¿who knows?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

haha and yeah that's about as deep as the conversations used to get in spanish.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My laptop has a 'Fn' key. Pressing Fn+PgUp turns a light on.

― robster (robster), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to catalogue materials in all kinds of languages so have been using the Alt+numbers for ages but this is a nifty shortcut for probably the most common ones woo.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

What does Pause/Break do? Bring me a KitKat?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

¡Sí!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Dó yóú háté Fn?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Ctrl + F6 for El Kitkat Naranja

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

wow rob that light on your laptop sure is Fnkey!!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but doesn't strike me as very useful. I mean, the screen should be bright enough.

― robster (robster), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ctrl-break was traditionally the key to stop a program (back in DOS) it still works for when excel macros go wrong and mental.

the pause key on its own used to pause a program too... like when you're doing a "dir" listing pressing "pause" will freeze the listing until you press enter again.

i shouldn't know all these things.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

But do you find them sexy?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

C:\DOS
C:\DOS RUN

― robster (robster), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Geekiest joke EVAH!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Do I lose or gain geek points for nicking it from the Simpsons?

― robster (robster), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Programmers Do It Recursively.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Old Usenet Unix humour:

prompt> got a light?

no match

prompt>

― robster (robster), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

don't get me started on those......

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not going to glastonbury
No pictures to draw
And no songs anymore

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 2 April 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Radiohead Remix

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 2 April 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I have just discovered a row of three buttons on my keyboard I never knew were there before called

Sleep. Wake Up. Power.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 2 April 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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