[ale] My Fn Keys stopped working

[Jim Kinney]

I'm still chuckling over the " My f__n keys quit working " in this thread
:-)

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----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
> >
> > 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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consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
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