Now that my macpro screen is working again I am using it instead of the MBA. I like the keyboard better and the bigger screen. Faster too but that is something I have to fix on the MBA. It has its knickers in a twist about something and is slow as a dog.

But using the MBP keyboard I quickly realized the one thing I hate about it. For some reason the CAPSLOCK key is much easier to hit on this board. I am constantly accidently hitting it and typing in all caps until I look at the screen.

Knowing there is always a way to skin the cat on a Mac a google leads me to:

syspref/keyboard mouse/modifier keys/caplocks set "no action"

That was easy.

That is rather handy even for those of us with only desktop machines.

That is why I posted it in the lounge instead of the notebook forum.

Then it should be in periphials/accessories since it applies to both and you are talking about the keyboard.

Wow, now I am buried in peripherals. I cannot remove my keyboard from any of my laptops so I would be hard pressed to call the CAPSLOCK key an accessory or a peripheral since it is embedded into every computer made.

Why don't you move it to:
MacTech Magazine » Forums » Mac » Peripherals and Accessories » keyboards »silver keys » YELLING KEY »

Or maybe just leave it in the lounge since it could be used as a thread starter for all sorts of tricks people know about their Macs. Sort of like what the lounge used to be like before we got these OCD moderators?

I always look at active topics to find my buried posts but some people might not do that. Then I feel sorry for myself because no one has replied to my post. Boo hoo, I am so outta here!




If not obvious, most of this post is sarcasm. I really don't care where my pearls of wisdom are posted. I just do not get the logic of the moves is all. The forum should be trying to appear like it has some life to it. Stripping stuff from possibly the one forum that people visit doesn't seem to make sense.

Actually, it should be in "Mac OS X and General Mac Topics" or "Applications and Utilities" since it is a System Prefs setting.

I will look for it in those places next. Then it will be harder to find than syspref/keyboard mouse/modifier keys/caplocks and my life will be fulfilled in some kind of illogical logical way.

When I was getting my degree in Botany I kept bumping into this problem in Systematics which is the categorizing of all living things. Angiosperm Systematics was the love of my life. The branching tree of life of the flowering plants was very interesting to me and it remains so as we categorize now using whole genome sequencing to place a species into the correct kingdom/phylum/order/class/genus/species.

Scientists who do this type of work fall into two groups. The lumpers and the splitters. Defining a species is not completely defined since evolution is always occurring and the gradations between one species and another can be thin. Some scientists like to lump all similar organisms into one group and to not make a lot of suborders and subclasses. Some scientists like to make a new species for every small variation with tons of suborders.

As a scientist, I am a lumper. The moderators are splitters.

ps. Does this post now go into the botanical forum?

That reminds me of a a class I had as an undergraduate, on literary genre (same thing as systematics, so to speak--but then I'm sort of a lumper too, not to say lumpen proletarian). Anyway, the learned professor gave us the following poem:

On the Death of Queen Victoria
by A Loyal Indian Subject

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes,
Into the grave the good Queen dashes.

It's a terrible poem, the learned professor said because as an elegy it fails to provide the proper sense of dignity and loss that one expects from the genre.

I raised my timid hand and wondered whether it could perhaps be a not so subtle epigrammatic satire.

I learned that day never again to raise my timid hand in that class.

I have always thought of you as a lump, but we're not splitters, we're just the worker bees, and Neil is the owner, boss, and financier of this forum. The forum categories can use some tweaking but in the interim OS X technical posts will not reside in the Lounge, they'll be found a home.

At least you're doing your trivia more regularly so I'll cut you some slack.

LOL! So, you're the smart@ss in the back row!