Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-17 Thread Ted Treen
From: Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, 16 February, 2010 23:09:35 Subject: Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: There's been firmware updates for these keyboards

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-17 Thread Dan
At 12:32 PM -0800 2/16/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I have a wired aluminum apple keyboard. This one is the short one without the number keys. Apple say's that it's not compatible with Tiger (10.4.11 in my case)... I plugged it in and everything works accept the top row of keys (F keys)

New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Jeffrey Engle
I have a wired aluminum apple keyboard. This one is the short one without the number keys. Apple say's that it's not compatible with Tiger (10.4.11 in my case)... I plugged it in and everything works accept the top row of keys (F keys) Question, is there a way to make these works by

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Nicholas Fantuzzi
2010/2/16 Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com I have a wired aluminum apple keyboard. This one is the short one without the number keys. Apple say's that it's not compatible with Tiger (10.4.11 in my case)... I plugged it in and everything works accept the top row of keys (F keys) Question, is

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Feb 16, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Nicholas Fantuzzi wrote: 2010/2/16 Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com I have a wired aluminum apple keyboard. This one is the short one without the number keys. Apple say's that it's not compatible with Tiger (10.4.11 in my case)... I plugged it in and everything

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread John Niven
I concur. I have both the short one and the longer one and only the longer one works with Tiger. I still use the short one on my server but you don't get the full functionality. Such a shame. I can't imagine there is a REAL reason for Apple doing this. --- On Tue, 2/16/10, Jeffrey Engle

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 16, 2010, at 3:22 PM, John Niven wrote: I concur. I have both the short one and the longer one and only the longer one works with Tiger. I still use the short one on my server but you don't get the full functionality. Such a shame. I can't imagine there is a REAL reason for Apple

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: There's been firmware updates for these keyboards, which implies that they're NOT just dumb collection of switches. Shouldn't we suspect the NSA has something to do with this? A keystroke logger in every keyboard perhaps? They say during

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: They say during the first Gulf War the Iranians were using a computer printer with hacked firmware that sent all of Saddam Hussein's orders directly to us over the internet. This was based on an old Infoworld April Fools joke, it never

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: They say during the first Gulf War the Iranians were using a computer printer with hacked firmware that sent all of Saddam Hussein's orders directly to us over the internet. This was

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread iJohn
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Shouldn't we suspect the NSA has something to do with this? If you want to fear that the government might invade your privacy, I'm right there with you ... except I think you've got the wrong government. Remember that when

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Nicholas Fantuzzi
2010/2/16 Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com Nicholas, this is the one I have.. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB869LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mgmco=MTA4Mzc5NDY . it clearly states, Minimum System Requirements - Mac computer with available USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 port - Mac OS X v10.5.6 or