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- jamend, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60Scroll Lock key simulator:
http://users.aol.com/elmothecow/scrollock/scroloff.htm - Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -3/+57Of course I know what it does. It makes that little light next to the one marked "Num Lock" turn on.
- dorianh49, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39SPOILER ALERT (for those of you who can't access the page, and the mirrors above and below don't work) FTFA: "The main intent of the Scroll Lock key was to allow scrolling of screen text up, down and presumably sideways using the arrow keys in the days before large displays and graphical scroll bars."
- Plooo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Its all so obvious now.
- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Get out now! The unlocked scrolls are coming from inside the house!
- Amsay, on 10/12/2007, -14/+36"C:UnaLesbian Porn>DIR
. . . then the 22,000 files in that directory scroll past"
Someones been busy. - DankLogic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20SUMMARY:
Scroll Lock - used to scroll the screen with the arrow keys before they had scroll bars.
SysReq - sends a low level request to the OS or BIOS, usually to switch tasks on terminal systems like AS400's.
Pause/Break - halt scrolling of multi-screen text in terminal apps. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I don't have a scroll lock key on my keyboard. Should I be concerned?
- Samsong, on 10/12/2007, -11/+26Go cut yourself, loser.
- js123js, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14"In command-line environments such as DOS, the pipe symbol can add functionality to a DOS command. The way I most frequently use it is when doing a directory listing (DIR) on a large directory with hundreds of files. Say I type “DIR” at the command prompt like so:
C:UnaLesbian Porn>DIR
. . . then the 22,000 files in that directory scroll past so fast I can't see their names."
Lol - monergism, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14No need. I was on the net before Web 2.0.
- Soccer4786, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Great... now I can exchange it for a panic button without worry!
- CaptShmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Scroll Lock is also used for quick-switching between computers on a lot of KVM switches.
i.e. ScrLk ScrLk 2 will go to the second pc channel, etc. - Neorio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13The scroll lock key is incredibly useful on FreeBSD.
- M4v3R, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12SysRq key is still useful in *nix. Press Alt+SysRq+K to kill a process, or sequence: Alt+SysRq+[R,S,E,I,U,B] to sync and unmount all hdds, kill all processes and reboot the machine.
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Yeah, Apple just rebrands keys. The option and command keys are the same as the open and closed apple keys.
And scroll lock? It's still there, it's just called F14 or F15 or whatever. - haobaba1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I guess we were the only two read far enough to find that sweet ending.
- darrin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15nah..blocking was more fun
- pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Is it the spacebar? I'm not familiar with Sun keyboards, but that's what the unlabeled button on mine turned out to be.
- squishface2021, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Xfire
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The Scroll Lock key still works in Excel - try it!
- dicerandom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I use it to handle crashes. If X locks up I can usually rescue myself by hitting alt+sysrq+k (kill everything on the current VT). That'll nuke X and force GDM to respawn. When things get really bad I'll do alt+sysrq+s about two or three times then alt+sysrq+u then alt+sysrq+b. That's sync, sync again, mount all volumes read-only, and reboot.
- RC2k6, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Bogus mirror
- pihlopase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The SysRq key is used in Linux to pass basic commands to the kernel such as dumping the output of the kernel or memory. At IBM we still use it quite frequently during testing of different Linux distributions. More info can be found here:
http://www.linux.com/howtos/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/security-sysrq.shtml - Hemingrubbish, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Nope.
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6What this article (and it's promotion to the front page) clearly shows is the age of Digg users. Those of us who have been using computers since before the PC was available in peoples homes already knew this!
Does anyone know what the greatest anti-competitive maneuver Microsoft ever did was? It's that they mapped Alt-F4 to close windows. A certain word processing program used that keyboard shortcut for something else, know what it is? - phliver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I do a lot of computer repair. So I like to use the "Pause/Break" during POST to pause the output even on new computers. Then you actually have time to read what buttons do what, like go to setup, select boot device, or read the HDDs and CD-ROMs that were detected.
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It was Word Perfect:
Alt-F4 was used in early editions of Word Perfect to select text (it's been a while so I'm working from memory here) and Microsoft knew this BEFORE Windows was on the market so... They decided to map Alt-F4 to "close window". This resulted in many WP users dumping it when their office went to Windows. - versionist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5?his ?rticle ?ure ?oes ?ave ? ?ot ?f ?uestion ?arks.
- semiotix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Attention sheeple:
On behalf of the secret shadow government that controls the whole world, I'd like to thank you for your interest in the SysRq and Scroll Lock keys. Rest assured that in exactly 31 years and 116 days, it will all become terribly clear what function they perform, but by then it will be too late for you to do anything about it. Meanwhile, go about your lives as usual.
Love,
The Trilateral Commission - ahill7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I believe that scroll lock is still respected on linux shells. I use scroll lock sometimes in bash to stop the scroll back of output on the screen. This is handy when you're at a low level and not in an X-terminal or the like.
- Insolent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Whoa, that's some major Baader-Meinhof Syndrome.
I hadn't looked at Digg for about 2 hours, and a moment ago I accidentally hit my scroll lock key (I haven't done this since I can remember.. usually only my num lock key gets toggled accidentally). I toggled it off and I wondered, "what the hell does this do?" despite being an internet addict for over a decade now.
Enlightening. - GopherChucks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I find it funny that someone posted this article;
Just last week, I was helping a customer create a spreadsheet. I got him started, and he began entering data. Then, at one point, he needed to switch to a different computer in the lab, and when he opened his spreadsheet up again, he noticed that he couldn't navigate through the cells. He was simply moving around a vast array of blank ones, but had to click each cell to update it. I was with another customer when it happened, but when I did eventually come over, myself and the other consultant stood there for a solid 30 seconds... not sure what to do. Something clicked in my brain, and I glanced down to discover... Scroll Lock!
Pesky windows machines and their... locks. :D - SirBryce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It made my head asplode.
- netsharc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5He didn't even discuss the PrtScr (PrintScreen) key... in DOS it would dump the contents of the console monitor to the parallel port printer. In Windows it takes a snapshot of your screen and puts it into the clipboard. Here's a secret: open a window, don't maximize it, give it focus, and press Alt+PrtScr, open your image editor, and paste...
Windows Key + Break: System Properties. And you can generate a BSOD using Ctrl+ScrollLock Ctrl+ScrollLock (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244139). - MasteRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As a Linux user I use SysRq occasionally. I never used it back in my Windows days.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's a pretty good use. I remapped scroll lock to disable my Hotkeys. I've remapped a lot of my keys, but sometimes like to revert them to their normal functionality. Since scroll lock turns on a light it's perfect for letting me know which state the keyboard is in.
- linuxeventually, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Anyone catch the directory:
C:UnaLesbian Porn>DIR | more - pdaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I read that, and if you read beyond, you see:
--Guest contributor Una Persson (nee Anthracite)
LOL - funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ditto. I use it every week for that purpose at work. Helps with diagnosing start-up problems during POST and Linux startup.
- Zoman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41. Start regedit. (If you are unfamiliar with regedit, please refer to this FAQ)
2. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesi8042prtParameters
3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnCtrlScroll
4. Right-click on this newly created value and click on Modify
5. Enter 1 in the Value data field and click on OK.
6. Close regedit and reboot your system.
7. Now you can blue screen (crash) your system by holding the right CTRL key and pressing "Scroll Lock" twice.
And that is what the scroll lock is for. - giloron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I use my Scroll Lock to tell my KVM to switch computers.
- zodieman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4On a Mac the F14 and F15 keys are assigned to screen brightness down and up respectively on Macs with built-in LCD displays (iMacs, MacBook /Pro)
- JestaMcMerv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2C:UnaLesbian Porn>DIR | more
so true. - rbond, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What does this button do?
http://www.crazyphotos.com/thumbs/.*****.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6you took the word right out of my mouth
- BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"""What this article (and it's promotion to the front page) clearly shows is the age of Digg users. Those of us who have been using computers since before the PC was available in peoples homes already knew this!"""
Indeed. Isaac Asimov once wrote about an age where nobody could do arithmetic in their heads because calculators had become entirely commonplace, and I can't remember what the nature of the doom was, but there was definitely impending doom of some sort because of it.
Being a person who remembers when the 8086-based IBM clones and their operating systems looked silly next to some machines with 5 or 10x less memory and processing power, and seeing how many people don't know anything else now, feels a bit like being dropped into Asimov's story.
BTW, you're not the only gnarly old git here. :-)
"""Does anyone know what the greatest anti-competitive maneuver Microsoft ever did was? It's that they mapped Alt-F4 to close windows. A certain word processing program used that keyboard shortcut for something else, know what it is?"""
If you mean WP, wasn't it something like emacs' ctrl-space? - cyberscape2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Was it LotusNotes? :P
- utcursch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_lock:
* In the Opera web browser the Scroll Lock key plays an important role in voice recognition (http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/voice/).
* In the multilingual text editor iLeap, Scroll Lock key is used as a toggle switch to change between two languages.
* In FreeBSD, and other BSD descendants, Scroll Lock still functions similarly to IBM's original design.
* On Dell laptops the Scroll Lock key becomes the Fn key when an external keyboard is used.
* Individual applications may assign any function to this key as an added convenience hotkey. - dimension, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2C:UnaLesbian Porn>DIR /p
lol
man I'm old -
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