[ale] My Fn Keys stopped working

[Pete Hardie]

I'm no longer amazed by the persistence and strength some uses must
have.  Long ago, I worked on a system that used Amigas as graphics
engines.  This was when you needed to use one floppy to boot it, and a
second to load the actual worki program.  One day, the customer
reported that one of the machines was not working.  When we
investigated, we found that someone had managed to jam a second 3.5"
floppy into a drive that was already loaded.  after removing the case
and extracting the errant disk with pliers, we tried to replicate the
feat, but it took a hammer to get the second disk into the drive.

Someone was very determined to get that disk into that drive over night.


On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:50, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> Reminds of a system years ago that had a keyboard lock button right next to the power button.   They both looked the same.   More than once I'd come in and find the night shift had power cycled the system because "the keyboard quit working".  The power cycle of course didn't work so they then tried detaching and reconnecting the keyboard with no luck and would leave me a note.  Usually that was just an annoyance but one morning I found one of them had pushed the keyboard connection in so forcefully but upside down that they'd bent all of the pins on it.
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> Which also reminds me of the VP I worked with who asked me to look at his personal Gateway (yes I know) PC.   I found he had actually forced the power connector into his hard drive upside down which had to have taken some work given the D shape made for such connectors to prevent exactly that.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lynch
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 7:13 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] My Fn Keys stopped working
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> On 09/25/2011 10:07 PM, Joshua Roberts wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> My Fn keys are not working correctly anymore.
>>
>> I am running mint 11 64-bit.
>>
>> I came home one day and my Cat had been laying on my keyboard and I
>> had dozens if not hundreds of print screen dialogues on my screen.
>> Since then they Fn keys have not worked.
>>
>> Google has little info that is easy to find and the IRC rooms are
>> silent when I ask.
>>
>> Does anyone have any thoughts?
>>
>> Joshua
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> I have a F Lock key on my keyboard.  It converts the F1-F12 keys into
> something strange. I have no idea what the purpose is, but when I
> accidentally press it, my function keys stop working.  Perhaps you have
> one too?
>
> Jim.
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