but, delete, and eject aren't even anywhere even close to each other on the
keyboard, so how could that! be?
Chris.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: A Dreadful problem senario
I think this was an Apple design choice so that folks didn't accidentally
eject their CDs when they meant to hit Delete.
CB
Dan wrote:
Hello,
Under Leopard you need to hold down the Eject key for a second or so.
Dan
On Sep 10, 2008, at 3:51 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
Christ.
I have a G4 Powermac quick-Silver, which I am guessing is what you have.
I have had many older keyboards pluged into it, and Always I have to be
really dirrect when pressing the "Eject" Key. I mean, sometimes I have
to pound directly on the key, in the centre, and it doesn't always work
at once, I mean I have to jab it a few times.
Well, just my two cents worth and what worked for me.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 10-Sep-08, at 3:32 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
OK guys, this has not! thank? God! happened to me yet, and God forbid!
the day it does, however, I cannot help but to ask. I do still have my
Tiger system, and you'd better believe I plan on keeping it, but, I
just yesterday finally! got me a Mac running Leopard! God do I love
it! It is a Power Mac G4 just like the Tiger machine, accept this one
is 800 mhz. It's gotta 40 gig hard drive. one gigga s d ram, a
monitor, a mouse, not sure what type, and a 24 X CD burner/dvd combo
drive. It's a pretty sweet system. Anyway, there is however one
really big problem. Um? Like, bloody hell? The guy from Craigs list
who gave me this thing has no clue about this and suggested I write
yall for help. Basicly, now you tell me if this is not lovely. Not?
The CD drive on the tower has no hardware based button on the front a
the tower. It's not slot loading, it actually is a tray, just like
normal, but no open/close button. So, then, I got this keyboard. OK,
well, this keyboard is kind of interesting. It's newer than the
keyboard I got with the Tiger box. Basicly, it looks almost identical
to a windows keyboard with very few differences. For one, above your
arrow keys, instead of a 6pack, you got a 9 pack. Basicly in that
9pack, on the top is F13 through F15. Then below that is help, home,
and page up. Finally, the last row is delete, end, and page down.
Then you got your number pad, and above 7 8 and 9 is clear, equals,
divided by, I think? then multiply. Now, getting back to the CD
thing... I ran off on this tangence for a reason. So, stick with me.
Above this, you got four buttons. You got vol down, vol up, mute, then
eject.
Well, the keyboard is not plugged into a hub. It is going directly via
USB into the tower. Well, the eject key is doing absolutely nothing.
btw, to the right a the space bar is command, then another option key,
then a right control key. The guy said this was a much newer keyboard.
The end of the USB plug feels real smoothe like the IPod USB plugs
feel. The keyboard is kind of a shiny tannish/off white color. There
are no feet on the bottom of it to slant it up. Not that they're
broken off, they're just not there. They never were. Now, I can find
in my desktop, the CD volume, and hit command e on it, and that works.
Then to get the thing back in, I just take my hand and very lightly
push the tray, and it goes back in. Well, this is all good, and I also
have if I vo m twice, then vo right a few times, I do have an icon that
says eject. Now if I vo down on that, I do see one menu option which
says eject combo drive. If I vo space on that, it definitely does
eject. Also in ITunes, if I do command e, it opens. Where the
underlying problem, however is, is, ok, I turn my system on one day,
well, o? sh**. It won't boot up. Great. Lovely. So CD stuck in the
drive or not. That eject key ain't workin. So, I gotta get a Leopard
disc in that bloody thang. how 'em I gonna do that though, if I can't
boot to the OS to get to that volume and command e on it? How can I do
that if I can't get to ITunes to eject it. How do I do this if I can't
get the menu bar icon to be accessible? And, finally, how do I do
this, if the damn eject key won't work. See? I'm kind a screwed at
that point. Unless yall know something I don't. Do yall know a way
maybe we before bootup maybe like during bootup could trick the drive
into openning? While booting, command e won't work. I already tried.
Apparently, Command E only works in ITunes, or on a selected mounted
volume. I guess in theory, I could always leave my damn Leopard disc
in the drive, just in case, but, that's kind a pathetic. There's gotta
be a better way. I am totally perplexed why the eject key won't work.
I even mounted an external volume, made sure cursor tracking was on,
highlighted it in the desktop, then hit the eject key instead of
command e, but that didn't even unount the thing. I turned off
voiceover, and it did no good. I'm just wonderring if maybe even
though this keyboard has that key, maybe it isn't supported with this
tower. BTW, this keyboard doesn't have an on/off power button. you
gotta do it on the tower itself. I dono if this is a newer IMac
keyboard, or what. Again, God forbid the day this senario happens, but
it would be nice to be able to rest assured that if this does wind up
happenning, I have no reason to pannick. If it crashed, I don't wanna
have to take that darn thing into a store, and say, hey I crashed and
there's a CD in here, can you pop it out for me? It's like, o,
gr'r'r'rate, not again, Cr'r'ris.
So, yeah, if anyone's got any idea, let me know please. I'll check and
see maybe if there are any software updates that'll fix it, but somehow
I doubt it, being last night, I updated everything to the most current,
or so I thought I did. Although even if I didn't! you'd still! think I
could get the booger opened before it fully booted.
Anyway, this is really kind a pannicking me, not that it's gonna crash
any time soon, I hope, but, knowing if it does, I don't have a way to
really deal with it, um, yeah.
Chris.
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