Now fucking hang on one moment...

[deathboy]

I would like to know, precisely, where I tell Windows 2000 that should I accidently mash the 'Standby button' that some almighty fuckwit chose to put on my keyboard, rather than trying to suspend and crashing, it actually does fuck all, rather than the two options of 'suspend' or 'power off'.

Yes, it's late, and I do indeed require my Special Dialling Wand(tm), but this is just fucking silly.

I basically have a 'crash when you press this' button on my keyboard.

Fuck that.

Thank FUCK for my habit of pressing CTRL-S automatically, every time I change anything.

Work hours lost - 0.

I am, however, extremely narked off.

Comments

[nullwhite.livejournal.com]

i have the very same button, only the cat presses it rather than me.

[muftak.livejournal.com]

should be in the power management settings in control pannel...

[abbykatt.livejournal.com]

Quit yer bitchin' and get a motherboard that suspends without crashing
or I'll put a fackin AOL button on yer ka'board matey!

[captainweasel.livejournal.com]

lever it off with a screwdriver.

[ali-in-london.livejournal.com]

My housemate had a similar problem, except that the button in question was on the computer that sat under her desk conveniently near her foot. Her solution: tape and a plastic bottle top, so now when she wants to press the Big Red Button (OK, it's not red, but it should be) she has to lift up the little safety cover.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Get A Proper Keyboard.

These people will sell you a refurbished God's Own Keyboard (Original IBM ATX) for £29+VAT

No twatty 'windows' keys or 'standby' shite and the blasted thing's made from Proper Steel so at a pinch you can break someone's arm with it.

[reddragdiva]

Yet again, you have filled my life with joy.

(I left my Genuine IBM Model M in Melbourne when I left. By accident. The pain!)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

One tries.

Let me know how you get on - I thieved mine from a(n) XT-286:

"Here, you don't want that nasty, grubby old keyboard. Have this shiny new one. It's lighter and has a windows key..."

"Coo. Ta. D'you want anything in return?"

"Naah - don't worry. Shall I throw that old thing in the skip for you?"

"Sure. Hey, I thought you BOfH types were supposed to be rude or something?"

[FX: Runs away at high speed, clutching IBM k/b]

[reddragdiva]

Heh, yes. I got one at work like that. Failed to nick it upon leaving. I got the one I left in Melbourne when I bought a 486 for $50 in 1998. Buying the one you name will be £45 including delivery and VAT, which I can't afford right now, and I can just imagine redcountess's opinion of the incredibly loud clickety-click noises ...

I have omnipresent Model-M-dar whenever I am in the vicinity of computing equipment.

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

What a bloody stupid place to put that button ... there's one on the parental computer - several bouts of screaming were induced by me going to hit "enter" and turning the computer off instead.

keyboard settings

[cadfael.livejournal.com]

Control Panel - Keyboard (IIRC)

change the keyboard type to a standard 102 key UK keyboard.

Then those buttons should either do nothing or just generate an unused ascii code.

Re: keyboard settings

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

annoyingly, I seem to be set to that already :/

[pda.livejournal.com]

mine has one of those. -but- it also has a 'wake up' button(both of which are removed from service!).
some clever gimboid decided to make keys that had THE SAME PURPOSE AS COMMANDS YOU CAN CLICK ON.

i think we're talking about the same thing, as I'm not currently typing on my *own* keyboard.

in any case, i hope you removed the key :)