On a laptop eject is right above the delete key. On my USB keyboard
eject is just above the * on the top right.
CB
Chris Gilland wrote:
but, delete, and eject aren't even anywhere even close to each other
on the keyboard, so how could that! be?
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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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