oh yeah, I guess they're not lol! it's been a minute since I've seen a
desktop.
On 10-Sep-08, at 6:06 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
You are thinking of the laptops.
On the full sized Desktop Keyboards, they aren't even close.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 10-Sep-08, at 12:51 PM, Jessi Rathwell wrote:
delete is right below eject.
On 10-Sep-08, at 12:46 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
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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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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