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Subject:Death to Caps Lock? From:Brian Gordon <elasticsoul2003 -at- yahoo -dot- ca> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:15:50 -0700 (PDT)
Probably not, but a group wants the caps lock key removed from keyboards.
I believe they'll solve the crisis in the Middle East right after they accomplish that goal. :-)
Brian
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71606-0.html?tw=rss.index
"Hintjens, the CEO of iMatix, has launched the Capsoff organization in a campaign urging hardware manufacturers to ditch the oft-abused and misused key.
[snip]
"The Caps key is an abomination," Hintjens writes on his blog. "It's a huge key, stuck right there where the Ctrl used to be, and as far as I know, it's only used by 419 scammers and Fortran programmers."
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